The Vigilant is a strategic nuclear submarine of the French Navy.
The Royal Navy also have a SSBN in service called Vigilant.
Famous quotes containing the words french and/or vigilant:
“In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content,
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)
“You are the current of the frozen stream,
Shadow invisible, ambushed and vigilant flame.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)