Bougainville - Ships

Ships

  • French ship Bougainville, various French ships named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
  • USS Bougainville (CVE-100), later CVU-100, a United States Navy Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier in commission from 1944 to 1946

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