French ship Seine

Last updated June 24, 2025

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

Ships of the French Navy named Seine

The Action of 30 June 1798 where HMS Jason captured Seine
Foudre, ex-Seine, circa 1914

Ships with related names

French ship Seine II (1917), an auxiliary ship, formerly the German Lynton^[5]
French ship Seine III (1917), an auxiliary ship ^[5]

Notes and references

Notes

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Roche, vol.1, p.409
1 2 3 4 Roche, vol.1, p.410
↑ Roche, vol.1, p.178
↑ Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.378.
1 2 3 4 5 Roche, vol.2, p.445
↑ 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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[roche409-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Roche, vol.1, p.409

[roche410-2] 1 2 3 4 Roche, vol.1, p.410

[roche178-3] Roche, vol.1, p.178

[4] Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.378.

[roche445-5] 1 2 3 4 5 Roche, vol.2, p.445

[roche213-6] Roche, vol.2, p.213

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