French frigate Ventôse

Ventôse is a light monitoring frigate ("frégate de surveillance") of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth ship of her class, and the first French vessel named after Ventôse, the 5th month of the Republican Calendar. She deployed as part of the French response to Hurricane Katrina.

Ventôse took part in the recovery operation for the Air France Flight 447 which crashed some 960 km off the northeast coast of Brazil on 1 June 2009.