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French ship Brune

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ16860591 ↗
Source-derived summary

Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name Brune, in honour of the Brune river, a river of Aisne.

Ships

Brune (1690), a 6-gun corvette of barque.

Brune (1755), a 32-gun Blonde-class frigate.

Brune (1781), a 20-gun Coquette-class corvette.

See also

HMS Brune

Citations

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p.

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