Jean Bart may refer to one of the following ships of the French Navy or privateers named in honour of Jean Bart (21 October 1651 – 27 April 1702), a French naval commander and privateer. Naval vessels : a 74-gun ship of the line (1791–1809) : a 20-gun corvette, lead ship of her class, she sailed the Channel, the North Sea and the Atlantic as far as New York before and captured her in the Channel in 1795; taken into the Royal Navy as , but wrecked 1796 on the Penmarks. Gunboat Jean Bart, which Admiral Hood took into British service in September–October 1793 at Toulon, and put under the command of Lieutenant Cox. The British may have burnt her when they withdrew from the city. : a British lugger of eight guns and 50 tons (bm) that the French captured in August 1793; briefly renamed Joyeaux (1795–96), she was decommissioned in 1800 at Cherbourg. : Launched at Bayonne in 1786 as a privateer, she was a 24-gun corvette of the French Navy from 1794 that the Royal Navy captured in 1795 and sold in 1797 at Jamaica. : possibly requisitioned in 1803, she was armed in November and was decommissioned on 31 March 1807. troop ship n°799 (1803–1806) troop ship n°816 (1803–1806) , a 74-gun ship of the line (1820–1833) , an 80-gun ship of the line The ship of the line was renamed Jean Bart in September 1868 , a first class cruiser of 4,800 tonnes , a 23,600 tonne battleship; the first French dreadnought , the last French battleship completed, 40,000 tonnes and armed with 380mm/45 Modèle 1935 guns (1988), an anti-aircraft frigate, in service with the French Navy from 1991 to 2021 Privateers French 20-gun privateer Jean Bart, constructed at Le Havre in 1778 and launched in January 1779. That year she cruised under the command of François Cottin. In April 1779 he and the owners of Jean Bart submitted a claim for salvage for the Swedish vessel Mercure, which an English privateer had captured on her way from Saint Petersburg to Brest, and which Jean Bart had recaptured 48 hours later. Cottin and Jean Bart captured numerous prizes, including an English vessel of 200 tons (burthen) and 10 guns, after an engagement of an hour and a half. captured her on 1 April off Dunmore after a fight of about three hours that left Delight