French ship Éole

Ten ships of the French Navy have borne the name Éole in honour of Aeolus

Naval vessels named Éole

• Éole (1656), a 36-gun ship of the line
• Éole (1674), a 44-gun ship of the line
• Éole (1692), a 64-gun ship of the line
• Éole (1734), a 64-gun ship of the line
• Éole (1789), a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line
• Robert (1797), a Victoire-class 64-gun ship of the line, was named Éole before taking her definitive name
• Éole (1798), a xebec
• Éole was an 18-gun corvette that the British Royal Navy captured in 1799 and took into service as HMS Nimrod. After the Royal Navy sold her in 1811 she became a whaler and was last listed in 1820.
• Anversois (1814), a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line, was renamed Éole under the Bourbon Restoration
• Eylau (1856), a 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line, was started as Éole before taking her definitive name

Other vessels

• Éole was a French privateer lugger commissioned in 1810 that HMS Britomart, Osprey, and Leveret captured in 1812.

See also

• HMS Aeolus

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. p. 177. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.