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Bonhomme Richard

A French translation of Benjamin Franklin's nom de plume, "Poor Richard." When John Paul Jones received the Duc de Duras from the King of France, Louis XVI, he renamed the former French East Indiaman Bonhomme Richard to honor Franklin, the American Commissioner at Paris whose famous almanacs had been published in France under the title Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard.

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The third Bon Homme Richard (LHD-6) was commissioned on 15 August 1998.


Updates pending for 1998 to present.

9 January 2006