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Free French Services
Services de la France Libre

Free French Naval Forces
Forces Navales Françaises Libres

Provided by Alain Godec (Paris, France)
 
Battleships
COURBET: Used as anti-aircraft platform during the battle of Britain. Shot down five aircraft. Was scuttled on 09/06/44 near the coast of Normandy as a wave breaker for the artificial port Gooseberry 5.
Contre-Torpilleurs (Large Destroyers)
LEOPARD lost at sea 27/05/43
TRIOMPHANT
Torpilleurs (Destroyers)
LA COMBATTANTE
MELPOMENE disarmed on January 1943
Avisos
CHEVREUIL
COMMANDANT DOMINE
COMMANDANT DUBOC
LA MOQUEUSE
SARVORGNAN DE BRAZZA sink the Vichy warship BOUGAINVILLE in Libreville on 09/11/40. She comes under attack by the Vichy submarine VENGEUR on 27/07/41 and shoots down an enemy aircraft on 19/03/43.
Corvettes
ACONIT escorted 116 convoys and was 728 days at sea. 20 submarines attacked, two (U444, U432) sank within 24 hours on 11/03/43. 24 prisonners captured, 220 seamen rescued.
ALYSSE hit by torpedo on 08/02/42 and sank on 10/02/42.
COMMANDANT d'ESTIENNE d'ORVES
COMMANDANT DETROYAT
COMMANDANT DROGOU
LOBELIA sank the enemy submarine U609 on 07/02/43 and damages the U758 on 22/09/43.
MIMOSA sunk by torpedo on 09/06/42
RENONCULE
ROSELYS
Submarines
CURIE: sank the cargo ship TSAR FERDINAND and the GM03
JUNON: sank the cargo ship NORLAND
MINERVE
NARVAL sunk by a french mine near the Tunisian coast on 16/12/40
RUBIS was mainly used for laying 683 mines in 28 missions. The mines accounted for 10 enemy cargo/merchant ships sank, 8 enemy navy ships sank and 2 crippled, an enemy submarine seriously crippled. She also sank the cargo HOGLAND using torpedoes.
SURCOUF lost due to collision on 18/02/42 off the coast of Panama.
Patrol Ships
POULMIC sunk by mine off Plymouth on 07/11/40
PRESIDENT HOUDUCE
REINE DES FLOTS
VAILLANT disarmed on 18/01/41
VIKINGS sunk by torpedo (U81) off Saïda on 16/04/42
Auxiliary Merchant Cruiser
CAP DES PALMES probably sank a japanese submarine on 16/05/43 (reported by Japanese navy as missing).
Submarine Chasers
CH5 - CARENTAN lost at sea on 21/12/43
CH8 - RENNES sunk by aerial bomb on 13/07/42
CH10 - BAYONNE takes part in the landing at Dieppe and shoots down one enemy aircraft on 19/08/42
CH11 - BOULOGNE
CH12 - BENODET
CH13 - CALAIS
CH14 - DIELETTE
CH15 - PAIMPOL
CH41 - AUDIERNE shoots down a Ju88 on 11/04/41. She takes part in the landing at Dieppe and shoots down two enemy aircraft on 19/08/42
CH42 - LARMOR: shoots down a He111 on 22/05/41. She takes part in the landing at Dieppe.
CH43 - LAVANDOU: She shoots down an enemy aircraft on 13/05/41 and 31/05/42. She takes part in the landing at Dieppe and shoots down two enemy aircraft on 19/08/42.
Mine Sweepers
A.D.92 - CONGRE
A.D.112 KERIADO
A.D.38 LUCIENNE-JEANNE
Harbor Motor Boats
HDML BAALBECK 1164
HDML PALMYRE 1143
23rd Flottilla of Motor Torpedo Boats
MTB90
MTB91
MTB92
MTB94 sinks an enemy mine-sweeper on 11/03/43.
MTB96
MTB98
MTB227
MTB239
Motor Launches (all disarmed in August 1942)
ML052 GALANTRY
ML062 LANGLADE
ML063 - COLOMBIER
ML123 - SAINT-RENAN
ML182 - SEIN
ML205 - OUESSANT
ML245 - SAINT-GUENOLE
ML246 - SAINT-YVES
ML247 - SAINT-ALAIN
ML269 - BENIGUET
ML303 - MOLENE
Miscellaneous
HMS FIDELITY: French cargo ship RHIN converted by the Royal Navy. Sunk by U435 on 30/12/42.
Naval Air Units
Naval Fighter Group: Flottilla 6F
Naval Ground Units
1er Bataillon de Fusiliers-Marins
2e Bataillon de Fusiliers-Marins
1er Bataillon de Fusiliers-Marins Commandos
Non-Combat Units
Base and Training Ships
BOUCLIER
Pdt THEODORE TISSIER
AMIENS
ARRAS
EPINAL
Schooner (training)
BELLE POULE
ETOILE
 
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