Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Comte de Bougainville (November 12 1729 – August 20 1811) was a French navigator and military commander.

Trivia

Bougainville's name is given to the largest member of the Solomon Islands; and to the strait which divides it from the island of Choiseul. It is also applied to the strait between Mallicollo and Espiritu Santo islands of the New Hebrides group, and the South American climbing plant Bougainvillea, often cultivated in greenhouses, is named after him.

Related Topics:
Bougainville - Solomon Islands - Strait - Choiseul - Mallicollo - Espiritu Santo - New Hebrides - Bougainvillea

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13 ships of the French Navy were named in his honour:

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• A privateer (1797-1800) captured by the HMS Amazon.
• A privateer captured by the frigate HMS Eurydice in June 1801.
• A privateer captured by the HMS Scorpion in March 1807.
• A brig captured by the English in 1809.
• A brig-aviso (1830-1856)
• A steam aviso (1858-1889)
• A colonial aviso Bougainville (1929-1940)
• An aviso (1875-1920), launched as the Allier and renamed in 1887.
• A three-masted barque (1902), sunk by a German submarine in 1916.
• A mobilised cargo (1914), captured by the Japanese in 1942.
• A colonial aviso (1929-1940).
• An auxiliary cruiser (ex Victor Schoelcher) sunk by the British in 1942
• The present Bougainville (1986) is an electronic intelligence ship