Four ships of the French Navy have bourne the name of Aconit:
- The French corvette Aconit, of the Free French Forces, which dispached two German submarines within a few hours during the Second World War
- A minesweeper of the MSC60 type, built in the USA, launched in 1953. She was sold to Tunisia as the Rousse in 1966, and scrapped in 1988
- The only frigate of the F65 type, built in 1968 and commissioned in 1973. She was a prototype of the F67 type frigates. She was decommissioned in 1996
- The La Fayette type stealth frigate Aconit, presently in service
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F65 type
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La Fayette type stealth frigate Aconit
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“I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.”
—Gabriel Péri, French Communist leader. Letter, July 1942, written shortly before his execution by the Germans. Quoted in New York Times (April 11, 1943)
“We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first, and limber as the second. We want a ship in these billows we inhabit. An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters, in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all; as a shell is the architecture of a house founded on the sea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)