List of active French Navy ships


This is a list of active French Navy ships. The French Navy consists of the 87 vessel strong Force d'action navale and the 9 submarines of the Forces sous-marines. Primary assets include 1 Nuclear aircraft carrier, 3 amphibious assault ships, 3 air-defence destroyers, 8 anti-submarine destroyers, 5 general-purpose frigates, and 6 surveillance frigates. The submarine force consists of 5 nuclear attack submarines and 4 nuclear ballistic missile submarines. To support the Force d'Action Navale at sea, the French Navy uses 3 replenishment oilers, 17 mine countermeasure vessels and 8 support ships. In addition to the above units, it operates 17 patrol ships, 5 survey vessels, 4 experimentation ships, 4 ocean tugboats and 14 training vessels.
The French Navy does not use the term "destroyer" in vessel names. Instead, surface combatants of the first rank are named "frigates", though they are registered as destroyers.

Submarine fleet (Forces sous-marines)

ClassPictureTypeBoatDisplacementNote
'Ballistic missile submarine Triomphant
Téméraire
Vigilant
Terrible 		14,335 tonnes
'Attack submarine Rubis
Casabianca
Émeraude
Améthyste
Perle 		2,660 tonnesTo be replaced by 6 Suffren class starting 2020.

Surface fleet (Bâtiments de combat)

Aircraft carrier

Amphibious warfare

Major surface combatants

Patrol

Mine countermeasures

Coastguard

These vessels operate in conjunction with the Maritime Gendarmerie.

Auxiliary fleet (''Bâtiments de soutien'')

Replenishment

Intelligence, research and experimentation

Survey

Tugboats

Support

Training

Other

For a complete list of Bâtiments de soutien see at the official Marine Nationale website.