French ship Vengeur
# French ship Vengeur

Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Vengeur ('Avenger'):

## Ships named Vengeur

* Vengeur (1765) (1765–1785), a 64-gun ship of the line
* Vengeur (1789) (1790–1792), a Téméraire-class ship of the line
* Vengeur (1794), a 20-gun corvette
* Vengeur (1799) (1799), an 8-gun schooner
* Vengeur (1803) (1803–1806), a 120-gun Océan-class ship of the line
* Vengeur (1872) (1872–1905), an armoured coast guard
* Vengeur, a monitor type ironclad of 1882.
* Vengeur (Q137) (1931–1942), a Redoutable-class submarine, eventually scuttled with the Toulon fleet in 1942

## Ships with similar names

* The 74-gun ship of the line Marseillois (or Marseillais) was renamed Vengeur du Peuple ("Avenger of the People) in 1791, and was often referred to simply as Vengeur – this ship fought, and was sunk, at the Third Battle of Ushant on 1 June 1794.
