French ship Maillé Brézé

French Navy
(Marine Nationale)

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Motto: Honneur, Patrie, Valeur, Discipline
(“Honour, Homeland, Valour, Discipline”)
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Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name Brézé or Maillé Brézé in honour of admiral Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé:

46-gun ship of the line Brézé (1646–1665) ^[1]
Maillé-Brézé (named Brézé until January 1931), a Vauquelin class destroyer destroyed in the accidental explosion of one of her torpedoes on 30 April 1940 in Greenock
Maillé-Brézé (D627), T 47 class destroyer, presently a museum

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