Five ships of the French Navy have been named Indomptable:
- The 80-gun ship Indomptable (1789-1805) which fought at the Bataille du 13 prairial an II and the Battle of Trafalgar
- A gunship (1810-1813), captured by the English 38-gun frigate Bacchante
- An armoured coast-guard (1877-1910).
- Indomptable, a contre-torpilleur (1933-1942), destroyed in the Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon in 1942
- The Indomptable was the fourth Redoutable class submarine
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