Talk:List of ships of the Free French Naval Forces

Free French

As per [], removed ships that sailed with the Allies after 1940, but not under the Free French flag. This is not vandalism, ok? ;) PpPachy 22:05, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Comparing the way Free France and Vichy France are talked about in other pages, none of them making a distinction in the English pages that Free French meant "joined De Gaulle immediately". It is fair to say that former Vichy ships were still Free French after they turned in the way the English speaking world understands and uses the term "Free French". The page on Richelieu for example makes the distinction of "Vichy Service" and "Free French" Service i.e. part of the free french navy after it switched sides. Glavenuss (talk) 13:27, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Historical facts should be put into Wikipedia, not common misconceptions. The French Navy and the Free French Naval Forces were two different things, and the former never joined the latter. The FFNF were only a fraction of the French Navy. If other pages fail to make a distinction, it doesn't mean that ignorance should be spread further. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-33914-84 (talk) 10:19, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

More Ships?

Should Lorraine battleship be part of the Free France navy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.160.227.168 (talk) 22:19, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

as per the previous comment (see updated link at ), no. PpPachy (talk) 16:47, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Richelieu needs to be added, but it wasn't from the beginning, they (the free french) only managed to capture it in 1942. So active FFNF 1942 onwards. An editor for ww2 stuff (talk) 11:56, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on List of ships of the Free French Naval Forces. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20060712131820/http://perso.orange.fr:80/bertrand.daubigny/GueFNFL.htm to http://perso.orange.fr/bertrand.daubigny/GueFNFL.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 20:59, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Addition of former Vichy ships

Their exclusion doesn't make sense as they did fight under the free french command after they changed sides and the free french navy depended heavily on their service. If someone with better edeting skills adds some symbol to symbolize their service to vichy there shouldnt be an issue. Glavenuss (talk) 22:32, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

They didn't fight under the Free French command and never flew the Free French flag with the Cross of Lorraine. They joined the Allies, not the Gaullists, and fought under their command. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-33914-84 (talk) 10:34, 11 June 2026 (UTC)