René Duguay-Trouin: René Trouin, Sieur du Gué (10 June 1673 -- 1736), French privateer, admiral and Commander in the Order of Saint Louis
Leaving the safety of Portsmouth harbour, his convoy was ambushed by a French squadron under Forbin and Duguay-Trouin, in what became the Battle at the Lizard.
René Descartes | René Char | René Magritte | François-René de Chateaubriand | René Goscinny | Leon René | René Jacobs | Rene Daalder | Rene Russo | René Lévesque | Rene Requiestas | René Kollo | René Clausen | René Clair | Rene Portland | René Clemencic | Rene Auberjonois | René Higuita | Rene Goulet | René Girard | François-René de La Tour du Pin, Chambly de La Charce | Sherie Rene Scott | Ron Duguay | René Sergent | René Rémond | René Lussier | René Laennec | René II, Duke of Lorraine | Rene d'Harnoncourt | René de La Tour du Pin |
Both launches were lit up by searchlights on the French ships and attacked with Hotchkiss fire by Duguay-Trouin.
After completion, single catapults were installed on the quarter-decks of each ship, initially with two Gourdou-Leseurre GL-812 HY flying-boats, later the GL-832.
The soldier-poet Rupert Brooke died aboard en route to the Dardanelles on 23 April 1915 at Trebuki Bay, Skyros
Less accessible mechtas (Muslim villages) were bombed by French aircraft, and the cruiser Duguay-Trouin standing off the coast in the Gulf of Bougie, shelled Kherrata.