French ship Renard

Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Renard, after the Fox or the character Reynard. The name was also popular for privateers.

Naval ships

 * FRENCH FIRESHIP Renard, a fire ship.
 * FRENCH CORVETTE Renard, a 16-gun corvette, deleted from Navy lists in 1748.
 * FRENCH XEBEC Renard (1762), a 20-gun ship, sold in 1780.
 * FRENCH CORVETTE Renard, a corvette captured by the British in 1780.
 * FRENCH LUGGER Renard, formerly the captured British privateer Fox.
 * FRENCH LUGGER Renard, a 12-gun lugger. She appears to have been converted to a schooner; if so, she was the vessel that HMS Cameleon (1795) captured in 1803 and that became HMS Renard (1803), later renamed to HMS Crafty. The Spanish captured Crafty in 1807.
 * FRENCH BRIG Renard, a 16-gun Abeille-class brig.
 * FRENCH CUTTER Renard (1829), an 8-gun Écureuil-class cutter.
 * FRENCH AVISO Renard (1866), a second-class aviso.
 * FRENCH PATROL BOAT Renard (1916), an auxiliary patrol boat.
 * FRENCH TUGBOAT Renard (1918), a Loup-class tugboat.

Privateers

 * Renard, of Dieppe, was a two-masted vessel armed with one gun and five swivel guns, and carrying a crew of 29 men. The sloop HMS Jamaica (1744) captured her on 2 July 1747.
 * Renard was a cutter of 10 guns and 71 men, belonging to Guadeloupe, that HMS Tamar (1796) captured on 7 August 1795 off Martinique.
 * HMS Renard (1797) was a privateer that HMS Cerberus (1794) captured on 12 November 1797 on the Irish station. The Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name and sold her in 1807.
 * Renard was a French privateer lugger that HMS Nemesis (1780) captured on 12 January 1800.
 * Renard was a privateer sloop of three guns and 15 men that Surinam captured on 26 March 1800.
 * Renard was a French privateer that the hired armed lugger Nile captured on 1 November 1800 off Folkestone.
 * Renard was a privateer lugger, pierced for 10 guns, that HMS Fortunee (1800), HMS Trent (1796), and the cutter HMS Dolphin (1801) captured near Saint Aubin's Bay on 20 April 1801.
 * Renard was a French privateer captured on 16 November 1802 by a British squadron in the Mediterranean.
 * Renarde (or Renard) was French privateer lugger that HMS Skylark (1806) captured on 7 November 1807. Skylark shared the capture with HMS Trompeuse (1800) and the hired armed cutter Countess of Elgin, with which she was in company.
 * Renard was a felucca-rigged privateer of one 6-pounder gun and 47 men that the boats of HMS Meleager (1806) captured on 8 February 1808 off Santiago de Cuba.
 * Renard was a privateer cutter of six guns and 24 men that HMS Quebec (1781) and HMS Kite (1805) captured on 2 December 1810.
 * Renard, launched in 1812, was a privateer cutter owned by Robert Surcouf.