Thirteen ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville:
A privateer (1797–1800) captured by HMS Amazon on 14 February 1800, but the prize sank following a collision the next day.
A privateer captured by the frigate HMS Eurydice in June 1801
A privateer captured by HMS Scorpion in March 1807.
A brig captured by the British 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 Bougainville (1929–1940)
An auxiliary cruiser (ex-Victor Schoelcher) sunk by the British in 1942
The landing ship dock L9077 (1986)
The present Bougainville (A622), a D'Entrecasteaux-Class multi-mission vessel
