Navy officers on the bridges of the Motte-Picquet frigate
French Navy summer uniforms
Frigate division of the French Navy in Toulon harbour
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is the second-largest Western European navy (the largest being the Royal Navy). It operates a full range of vessels, from patrol boats to guided missile frigates, one aircraft carrier (at present) and strategic missile submarines (SSBNs).
Normally a two carrier force, the current Navy aircraft carrier is named Charles de Gaulle.
The Navy also comprises Naval fusiliers (ground forces, used to secure naval installations) and Naval commandos (amphibious assault and other special operations), collectively known as FUSCO.
The French navy is affectionously known as La Royale (the "Royal"), for its supposed attachement to the monarchy; it is to be noted that some of the greatest heroes of the First Republic were in the French Navy (Casabianca, Muriène, the Redoutable).
The motto of the French navy is "Honneur, Patrie, Valeur, Discipline" ("Honour, Country, Valour, Discipline").
Marine is an umbrella term for things relating to the ocean, as with Marine biology, Marine geology, and as a term for a navy, etc. In scientific contexts, the term almost always refers exclusively to saltwater environments, although in other contexts (''e.g.'', engineering) it may refer to any (usually navigable) body of water.
Mariner 3 was launched on November 5, 1964, but the shroud encasing the spacecraft atop its rocket failed to open properly and spacecraft did not get to Mars.
The Mariner 4 spacecraft, expected to survive something more than the eight months to Mars encounter, actually lasted about three years in solar orbit, continuing long-term studies of the solar wind environment and making coordinated measurements with Mariner 5, a sister ship launched to Venus in 1967.
A marine corps (from French "corps de marine") is a branch of a nation's armed forces incorporating Marines, intended to be capable of mounting amphibious assaults using infantry, armour, aircraft, and watercraft.
The Chilean Marine Corps (Cuerpo de Infanteria de Marina) is a branch of the Chilean Navy.
The Corps of Colonial Marines was a British marine corps formed during the mid 1840s to serve in the remaining British America colonies (mainly the West Indies).
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