French ship Renard

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

Naval ships

• 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]

Ships of the French Navy named Renard

• 
  Fight between Renard (1810) and HMS Swallow.
• 
  The second-class aviso Renard (1866)

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 a 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. Roche, vol.1, p.375
2. Roche, vol.1, p.376
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.