Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Renard, after the Fox or the character Reynard.[lower-alpha 1] The name was also popular for privateers.

  • French fireship Renard, a fire ship.[1]
  • French corvette Renard (1746), a 16-gun corvette, deleted from Navy lists in 1748.[1]
  • French xebec Renard (1762), a 20-gun ship, sold in 1780.[1]
  • French corvette Renard (1780), a corvette captured by the British in 1780.[1]
  • French lugger Renard (1780), formerly the captured British privateer Fox.[2]
  • French lugger Renard (1793), a 12-gun lugger.[2] She appears to have been converted to a schooner; if so, she was the vessel that HMS Cameleon captured in 1803 and that became HMS Renard, later renamed to HMS Crafty. The Spanish captured Crafty in 1807.
  • French brig Renard (1810), a 16-gun Abeille-class brig.[2]
  • French cutter Renard (1829), an 8-gun Écureuil-class cutter.[2]
  • French aviso Renard (1866), a second-class aviso.[2]
  • French patrol boat Renard (1916), an auxiliary patrol boat.[3]
  • French tugboat Renard (1918), a Loup-class tugboat.[3]

See also

  • Renard Bleu (1917), formerly the American tug Helen Hope, which the French Navy purchased in 1918.[3]

Privateers

  • Renard, of Dieppe, was a two-masted vessel armed with one gun and five swivel guns, and carrying a crew of 29 men. The sloop HMS Jamaica captured her on 2 July 1747.[4]
  • Renard was a cutter of 10 guns and 71 men, belonging to Guadeloupe, that Tamar captured on 7 August 1795 off Martinique.[5]
  • Renard was a privateer that Cerberus captured on 12 November 1797 on the Irish station. The Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name and sold her in 1807.
  • Renard was a French privateer lugger that Nemesis captured on 12 January 1800.[6]
  • Renard was a privateer sloop of three guns and 15 men that Surinam captured on 26 March 1800.[7]
  • Renard was a French privateer that the hired armed lugger Nile captured on 1 November 1800 off Folkestone.[8]
  • Renard was a privateer lugger, pierced for 10 guns, that Fortunee, Trent, and the cutter Dolphin captured near Saint Aubin's Bay on 20 April 1801.[9]
  • Renard was a French privateer captured on 16 November 1802 by a British squadron in the Mediterranean.[10]
  • Renarde (or Renard) was French privateer lugger that Skylark captured on 7 November 1807.[11] Skylark shared the capture with Trompeuse and the hired armed cutter Countess of Elgin, with which she was in company.[12]
  • Renard was a felucca-rigged privateer of one 6-pounder gun and 47 men that the boats of Meleager captured on 8 February 1808 off Santiago de Cuba.[13]
  • Renard was a privateer cutter of six guns and 24 men that Quebec and Kite captured on 2 December 1810.[14]
  • Renard, launched in 1812, was a privateer cutter owned by Robert Surcouf.

Notes

  1. ↑ The character's name is written "Renard" in French; by the end of the Middle Age, it had replaced the word "goupil" for "fox".

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Roche, vol.1, p.375
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Roche, vol.1, p.376
  3. 1 2 3 Roche, vol.2, p.418
  4. ↑ "No. 8655". The London Gazette. 4 July 1747. p. 2.
  5. ↑ "No. 14073". The London Gazette. 12 December 1797. p. 1192.
  6. ↑ "No. 15221". The London Gazette. 11 January 1800. p. 37.
  7. ↑ "No. 15295". The London Gazette. 20 September 1800. p. 1084.
  8. ↑ "No. 15307". The London Gazette. 1 November 1800. p. 1244.
  9. ↑ "No. 15361". The London Gazette. 2 May 1801. p. 482.
  10. ↑ "No. 16037". The London Gazette. 13 June 1807. p. 801.
  11. ↑ "No. 16086". The London Gazette. 14 November 1807. p. 1512.
  12. ↑ "No. 16167". The London Gazette. 30 July 1808. p. 1053.
  13. ↑ "No. 16139". The London Gazette. 23 April 1808. p. 571.
  14. ↑ "No. 16434". The London Gazette. 15 December 1810. p. 1978.

References

  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 375–376. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 2. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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