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2 unusual facts about Primauguet


Primauguet

See French ship Primauguet for six ships of the French Navy named in his honour

Hervé de Portzmoguer, nicknamed "Primauguet", fifteenth century Breton captain


Battle of Ky Hoa

Charner's squadron, the most powerful French naval force seen in Vietnamese waters before the creation of the French Far East Squadron on the eve of the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885), included the steam frigates Impératrice Eugénie and Renommée (Charner and Page's respective flagships), the corvettes Primauguet, Laplace and Du Chayla, eleven screw-driven despatch vessels, five first-class gunboats, seventeen transports and a hospital ship.


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