Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Seine in honour of the Seine river:

Ships named Seine

  • French fluyt Seine (1670),[1] or Seyne, a 6-gun ship captured from the Dutch.
  • French fluyt Seine (1671),[1] a 4-gun fluyt
  • French fluyt Seine (1698),[1] a 44-gun fluyt, captured by the British on 26 July 1704 and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Falkland Prize
  • French fluyt Seine (1720),[1] a Loire-class fluyt
  • French fluyt Seine (1768) (1768),[1] a Chameau-class fluyt
  • French fluyt Seine (1783),[1] a Seine-class fluyt
  • French frigate Seine,[1] a 40-gun frigate, lead ship of her class. Captured by three British frigates during the action of 30 June 1798 and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Seine.
  • French gunboat Seine (1798),[2] a gunboat commissioned on the Nile
  • Escaut (1800),[2] a fluyt. She was renamed to Seine at the Bourbon Restoration, and bore the name Escaut again during the Hundred Days before being renamed back to Seine.[3]
  • French flute Seine (1806),[4] a 20-gun Loire-class flûte that her crew scuttled to avoid her capture in 1809 by the British Royal Navy
  • French fluyt Seine (1845),[2] a 26-gun flute
  • French transport Seine (1857),[2] a Dordogne-class transport
  • Foudre (1891),[5] originally a torpedo-boat-tending cruiser and later to become the first seaplane tender in history, was started as Seine before being renamed.[6]
  • French transport Seine (1913),[5] a littoral transport ship
  • French oiler Seine (1962),[5] a replenishment oiler
  • French ship Seine II (1917), an auxiliary ship, formerly the German Lynton[5]
  • French ship Seine III (1917), an auxiliary ship [5]

See also

Notes and references

Notes

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Roche, vol.1, p.409
    2. 1 2 3 4 Roche, vol.1, p.410
    3. ↑ Roche, vol.1, p.178
    4. ↑ Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.378.
    5. 1 2 3 4 5 Roche, vol.2, p.445
    6. ↑ Roche, vol.2, p.213

    Bibliography

    • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 409–410. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
    • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 2. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 250. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
    • Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
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