French ship Thétis

Twelve ships of the French Navy have borne the name Thétis in honour of nereid and sea nymph Thetis:

Ships

Thétis (1697), a 44-gun ship of the line
Thétis (1705), a 40-gun frigate
Thétis (1722), a 26-gun frigate
Thétis (1752), a 26-gun Topaze-class frigate
Thétis (1788), a 40-gun Nimphe-class frigate
Thétis (1793), a 10-gun corvette
Thétis (1819), a 44-gun frigate
Thétis (1868), an Alma-class armoured corvette
Thétis (1916), a German-built Doris-class torpedo boat taken from the Greek Navy at Salamis Island in 1916.
Thétis (1920), a water tanker
Thétis (1929), a Circé-class submarine.
Thétis (1988), an experimental minesweeper.

Ships of the French Navy named Thétis

Battle between Thétis and HMS Amethyst on 10 November 1808

Model of Thétis (1819)

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 436-437. 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. 2. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 467. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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