Seventeen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Loire, after the longest river in France:
- Loire (1668), a 6-gun flute
- Loire (1686), a 30-gun flute
- Loire (1720), a flute
- Loire (1780), a scow
- Loire (1796), a 44-gun frigate
- Loire (1803), a 20-gun flute, lead ship of her two-vessel her class; destroyed with her classmate in 1809 to avoid capture by the Royal Navy
- Loire (1809), a scow
- Loire (1814), a flute broken up in 1838
- Loire (1827), a three-masted propeller-sail mixed transport vessel with a wooden hull.
- Loire (1840), a scow
- Loire (1855), a Dordogne-class troopship
- Prince Jérôme (1854), a Hercule-class ship of the line, was converted into a transport in 1872 as Loire
- Loire (1915), a commandeered four-masted barque
- Loire (1915), a requisitioned steam ship
- Loire (1916), a requisitioned cargo ship
- Loire, an oiler
- Loire (A615), (1965–2009) a mine countermeasures support ship Loire (French) (Google Translate – Loire (English))
- Loire (A602), (2018-present) lead ship of a class of four offshore support and assistance vessels deployed in Metropolitan France
Ships named Loire
Prince Jérôme (1854)
Loire (A615)
Loire (A602)
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