Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name '''''Bellone''''', in honour of Bellona: * {{ship|French ship|Bellone|1690|2}} (1690–1696), a galley * {{ship|French frigate|Bellone|1696|2}} (1696–1719), a 32-gun frigate * {{ship|French frigate|Bellone|1745|2}} (1745–1749), a 30-gun frigate * {{ship|French frigate|Bellone|1757|2}} (1758–1777), a 32-gun frigate * {{ship|French frigate|Bellone|1778|2}} (1779–1806), a 32-gun {{sclass|Iphigénie|frigate|1}} * {{ship|French ship|Bellone|1797|2}} (1797–1797), a xebec * {{ship|French frigate|Bellone|1808|2}} (1807–1817), a 44-gun frigate * {{ship|French ship|Bellone|1808|2}} (1808), a ship of unknown type * ''Bellone'' (1814–1840), a 44-gun {{sclass|Hortense|frigate|1}} * {{ship|French frigate|Bellone|1853|2}} (1853–1877), a 38-gun frigate * {{ship|French submarine|Bellone||2}} (Q102, 1917–1935), the lead ship of the {{sclass|Bellone|submarine|4}} of submarines

== Privateers == Several French privateers also bore the name. * ''Bellone'', involved in a naval battle in Loch nan Uamh during the Jacobite rising. She was captured in 1747 and taken into Royal Navy service as HMS ''Bellona'' and was sold in 1749. * ''Bellone'', of 34-guns under Jacques François Perroud [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/henri.maurel/corsair.htm], which captured the East Indiaman {{ship||Lord Nelson|East Indiaman|2}} on 14 August 1803 [http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_History/Vol_III/Vol_III_P_196.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061106215223/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_History/Vol_III/Vol_III_P_196.htm |date=2006-11-06 }}. A painting by Auguste Mayer commemorates the action. <gallery> File:The capture of the Lord Nelson by the French privateer Bellone, August 14, 1803.jpg|Capture of ''Lord Nelson'' by ''Bellone'' File:Auguste Mayer Abordage du Nelson par la Bellone 1846.jpg|Painting by Auguste Mayer </gallery>

== Merchant Vessels ==

* {{ship|French ship|Bellone|1707|2}} (1714?-1725), a ship of the French East India Company. The ship sank off Dauphin Island near Mobile in 1725.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Krivor |first=Michael C. |last2=de Bry |first2=John |last3=Linville |first3=Nicholas J. |last4=Wells |first4=Debra J. |date=2011 |title=Archival Investigations for Potential Colonial-Era Shipwrecks in Ultra-Deepwater within the Gulf of Mexico |url=https://espis.boem.gov/final%20reports/5109.pdf |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior |place=New Orleans}}</ref> {{Ship index}}

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