French ship Licorne

Twelve ships of the French Navy have borne the name Licorne, the French word for Unicorn:

Ships named Licorne

 * FRENCH FLUYT Licorne, a fluyt captured from Holland
 * FRENCH SHIP Licorne, a fireship
 * FRENCH FLUYT Licorne, an 8-gun fluyt
 * FRENCH SHIP Licorne, a 52-gun ship of the line
 * FRENCH SHIP Licorne, a 32-gun frigate, lead ship of her class. Captured in 1778 by HMS America (1777) and taken into British service as HMS Licorne (1778), sold in 1783.
 * FRENCH CORVETTE Licorne, a 20-gun corvette, formerly HMS Unicorn (1776), that FRENCH FRIGATE Andromaque captured in 1780. HMS Resource (1778) recaptured her off Cape Blaise in 1781 and the Royal Navy took her back into service as Unicorn Prize. She was broken up in 1787.
 * FRENCH FLUYT Licorne, a fluyt, formerly the Indiaman Lambert
 * FRENCH SHIP Licorne, a transport
 * FRENCH SHIP Licorne, a fluyt, lead ship of her class
 * FRENCH SHIP Licorne, a transport
 * FRENCH SHIP Licorne, a tug.
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Licorne, a Diver propulsion vehicle.

Ships with similar names

 * FRENCH SHIP Licorne II, an auxiliary patrol boat.

Fictional ships

 * Unicorn (La Licorne), a fictional sailing ship of the French Royal Navy in the French-language Belgian comic book Tintin

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