French ship Courageux
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Several French ships have borne the name Courageux, Courageaux, or Courageuse:
French Navy
Courageux (1671), a 42-gun ship, broken up in 1673.
Courageux (1673), an 80-gun ship, renamed Magnanime in 1679. She was sunk during a battle in 1705.
Courageux (1679), a 56-gun ship, deleted from Navy lists in 1704.
Courageux (1753), a 74-gun ship, captured in 1761 and taken into service as HMS Courageux. She was wrecked on the coast of Morocco in 1796.
Courageuse (1778), a 32-gun frigate of the Concorde class, launched in 1778, captured by the British in 1799, and last listed in 1802–3.
Courageuse (1794), a 40-gun Virginie-class frigate, renamed Justice in 1795
Courageux was a brigantine of ten 4-pounder guns that the French navy acquired at Toulon in April 1798. She was struck from the lists at Toulon in 1800. That may have occurred after a capture of a vessel by that name on 29 March 1800 that was subsequently taken into Minorca.
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