FRANCE

French Royal Navy flag (1638 till 1790-oct-24 & 1814-1830)	French Republic flag, Tricolore (1790-oct-25 till 1813 & after 1830)

French ships will be refered by HMXMS - His Most Christian Majesty's Ship - before ship´s name (Le Vaisseau de sa Majeste Tres Chretienne).

Of course, this title was changed in the Republic years by FNS - French National Ship (Le Navire de la Marine Nationale) - or HFIMS - His French Imperial Majesty´s Ship - but we are not going to use them to do not abuse of abbreviations. These prefixes will distinguish same ship´s name from different nations and government warships from pivateers or privately-owned merchantmen. We will use the X for Christian (Xtian), instead of the C, to make it easy to distinguish from the spanish abbreviation HCMS.

 Michel Humblet is the person in charge of the French Navy data (e-mail)

Sources & Special thanks to:

Stephen S. Roberts for his help and share with us his website.

Didier Baltes for his help and share with us his website. 

La Marine de Napoleon III

Service Historique de la Defense - Marine

Wikipedia.org

http://www.aamm.fr/ 

http://www.netmarine.net/dico/english/index.htm (only 50 pages of each volume in pdf).

http://wapedia.mobi/fr/Classe_Téméraire