The don des vaisseaux (lit. "gift of ships of the line") was a subscription effort launched by Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul and secretary...
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French ship Saint-Esprit (category Don des vaisseaux)
line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Order of the Holy Spirit, and named in its honour...
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French ship Océan (1790) (category Don des vaisseaux)
line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Estates of Bourgogne. She was ordered as États de...
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French ship Commerce de Marseille (1788) (category Don des vaisseaux)
the French Navy, lead ship of the Océan class. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the chamber of commerce of Marseille. Built on state-of-the-art...
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French ship Utile (1764) (category Don des vaisseaux)
Bordelois-class ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the States of Flander, and built by engineer Léon Guignace...
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the French Navy. Offered to the Crown by the Ferme générale as a Don des vaisseaux, she was renamed Phocion at the Revolution . Her officers surrendered...
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French ship Artésien (category Don des vaisseaux)
line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Estates of Artois. Artésien was built in 1765 as...
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French ship Zélé (1763) (category Don des vaisseaux)
of the French Royal Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Régisseur général des finances. On 6 July 1779, she participated in...
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French ship Languedoc (1766) (category Don des vaisseaux)
She was offered to King Louis XV by the Languedoc, as part of the Don des vaisseaux, a national effort to rebuild the navy after the Seven Years' War...
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French ship Bretagne (1766) (category Don des vaisseaux)
Fleet during the American War of Independence. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux grant by the Estates of Brittany. She was active in the European theatres...
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