French ship Seine
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
- 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]
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See also
Notes and references
Notes
References
- Roche, vol.1, p.409
- Roche, vol.1, p.410
- Roche, vol.1, p.178
- Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.378.
- 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. 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. 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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