French ship Bougainville

Thirteen ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville:
 * A privateer (1797-1800) captured by HMS Amazon (1799) on 14 February 1800, but the prize sank following a collision the next day.
 * A privateer captured by the frigate HMS Eurydice (1781) in June 1801
 * A privateer captured by HMS Scorpion (1803) in March 1807.
 * A brig captured by the British in 1809
 * A brig-aviso (1830-1856)
 * A steam aviso (1858-1889)
 * A colonial aviso Bougainville (1929-1940)
 * An aviso (1875-1920), launched as the Allier and renamed in 1887
 * A three-masted barque (1902), sunk by a German submarine in 1916
 * A mobilised cargo (1914), captured by the Japanese in 1942
 * A colonial aviso (1929-1940)
 * An auxiliary cruiser (ex-Victor Schoelcher) sunk by the British in 1942
 * The present Bougainville (L9077, in service since 1986) is a landing dock