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Exploring the French Navy: A Historical Quiz

Test your knowledge of the French Navy's history, operations, and significant events with this engaging quiz.

#French Navy #Naval History #Military #World War II #Colonial History #Jeune École #Operation Torch

1 ________, home of three patrol ships and craft for surveillance duty of the missile launch range of Biscarosse.

2 The French Navy also became an active proponent of the "Jeune École" doctrine, calling for small but powerful warships using ________ and shell guns to attack the British fleet.

3 During Operation Torch in November 1942, the Allies invaded ________ and the Vichy forces quickly turned sides.

4 The French navy ships Béarn, Fantasque, Triomphant, Duquesne, Tourville, and Emile Bertin helped transport the French Far East Expeditionary Corps to ________ in 1946.

5 The following are the ranks of the French National Navy, showing the French rank, the English translation, and the equivalent in the Royal Navy and the English language rank system of the ________.

6 ________, home of the Force d'action navale, the Charles de Gaulle, the tactical nuclear submarines, of a large part of the surface fleet and the special commando of combat swimmer: the commando Hubert.

7 This threat would be made all the more real should the French somehow become formal enemies or, more likely, should the German Navy (________) gain control of French vessels.

8 As of 2006, the French Navy is the largest naval employer in ________[citation needed], including, among other things, the Marseille Marine Fire Battalion.

9 In 1866, French Navy troops made an attempt to colonise Korea, during the ________.

10 During the ________ the French Navy played a decisive role in supporting the American side.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Bloch MB.480, despite proving successful in testing, was cancelled by the French Navy in favour of landplanes.
  • the French captured HMS Castor in 1794, only to have her retaken 20 days later by HMS Carysfort.
  • the French Navy's Le Napoléon (1850) was the first steam battleship in history.
  • the Bombardment of Mogador was accomplished in 1844 by a French Navy fleet against the Moroccan city of Essaouira.
  • the HMS Inconstant, a Royal Navy frigate, captured three French warships during the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • the son of French Admiral Georges René Le Peley de Pléville was released as a prisoner of war because the British Admiralty thanked his peg-legged father for saving a British frigate 10 years earlier.
  • the French ship Le Foudroyant was captured in 1758 and fought against the French Navy as HMS Foudroyant.
  • the French Navy ship Redoutable was built in 1876 and was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material.
  • the French flying boat Breguet 730 was designed in the 1930s, but didn't enter service in the French Navy until after the end of World War II due to the German occupation of that country.
  • HMS Canopus served for less than six months for the French Navy, and then for 89 years for the Royal Navy.
  • Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches, an admiral in the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War, was briefly imprisoned during the War in the Vendée.
  • HMS Spitfire captured at least nine French privateers and small naval vessels during a four year period under the command of Michael Seymour.
  • HMS Swiftsure fought at the Nile for the British, and at Trafalgar for the French.
  • at the Battle of Pulo Aura, a fleet of East Indiamen under Commodore Nathaniel Dance fought off an entire French squadron.
  • Captain Henry Trollope (1756–1839) of the Royal Navy, commanding the frigate Glatton, defeated a French squadron that outnumbered him six to one.
  • one of the French ships captured at the Battle of Cape Ortegal in 1805 went on to serve the Royal Navy for 144 years.
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