Prix pour la haute Préparation de la flotte ("Award for High Preparation in the Fleet")
This award was instituted in 1921 to encourage a high state of training and readiness within the French Navy. The award would be given to the ship exhibiting the highest state of readiness in a number of categories, including gunnery and other weapons, engineering and maintenance, damage control, and various other metrics established by the Admiralty. Between 1921 and 1930, and then again between 1932 and 1934, the Prix was awarded to a single ship only. In 1931, and every year since 1935, a Prix was given to one ship in the Atlantic Fleet, one in the Mediterranean Fleet, and one in the Naval Forces Outre-Mer (representing the Indian Ocean Flotilla, the Pacific Fleet, and all other naval forces). Starting in 1934, a separate award was given to submarines, making the Q171 the only French submarine ever to receive this award.
The battlecruiser Dunkerque and the destroyer Oriflamme currently have won the Prix on three separate occasions.
1921: FS Lorraine
1922: FS Lorraine
1923: FS Audaciaux
1924: FS Edgard Quinet
1925: FS Suffren
1926: FS Dupleix
1927: FS Q171
1928: FS Concorde
1929: FS Suffren
1930: FS Concorde
1931:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Oriflamme
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Durendal
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Montcalm
1932: FS Bretagne
1933: FS Q171
1934: FS Oriflamme
1935:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Gloire
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Oriflamme
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Indochine
1936:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Raisonnable
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Clemenceau
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Foch
1937:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Gloire
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Durendal
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Sarrail
1938:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Gloire
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS France
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Primauguet
1939:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Le Terrible
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Dunkerque
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Bayonnaise
1940:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Duquesene
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Richelieu
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Mogador
1941:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Dunkerque
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS L'Ocean
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Bayonnaise
1942:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Dunkerque
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Le Triomphant
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Guadeloupe
1943:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Strasbourg
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Emile Bertin
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Grisélidis
1944:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Navarin
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Le Triomphant
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Lyon
1945:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Barfleur
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Strasbourg
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Guépard
1946:
- Atlantic Fleet:
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Vengeur
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Nouvelle-Calédonie
1947:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS Renommée
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Surcouf
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Liberté
1948:
- Atlantic Fleet: FS L'Infatigable
- Mediterranean Fleet: FS Montcalm
- Forces Outre-Mer: FS Mogador
1949:
- Atlantic Fleet:
- Mediterranean Fleet:
- Forces Outre-Mer: