French ship Mont-Blanc

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A number of French ships have borne the name Mont-Blanc, in honour of the Mont-Blanc mountain. Among them,

The ship of the line Mont Blanc (1793)
The civilian cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc (1899) of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, which when carrying ammunition during World War I blew up in the Halifax Explosion of 1917.

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