Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Vésuve in honour of Mount Vesuvius:
Ships , a .Roche, vol.1, p.461 Vésuve (1793), a gunbrig, lead ship of her class. Captured in 1795 and taken into the British Royal Navy as HMS Vesuve; sold 1802. , a tartane. , an . , a bomb vessel, lead ship of her class.
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