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French ship Seine

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French ship Seine

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

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Ships named Seine

  • Seine (1670), or Seyne, a 6-gun ship captured from the Dutch.
  • Seine (1671), a 4-gun fluyt
  • Seine (1698), a 44-gun fluyt, captured by the British on 26 July 1704 and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Falkland Prize
  • Seine (1720), a Loire-class flute
  • Seine (1768), a Chameau-class flute
  • Seine (1783), a Seine-class flute
  • Seine (1794), 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.
  • Seine (1798), a gunboat commissioned on the Nile
  • Escaut (1800), 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.
  • Seine (1806), a 20-gun Loire-class flĂ»te that her crew scuttled to avoid her capture in 1809 by the British Royal Navy
  • Seine (1845), a 26-gun flute
  • Seine (1857), a Dordogne-class transport
  • Foudre (1891), originally a torpedo-boat-tending cruiser and later to become the first seaplane tender in history, was started as Seine before being renamed.
  • Seine (1913), a littoral transport ship
  • Seine (1962), a replenishment oiler
  • Seine II (1917), an auxiliary ship, formerly the German Lynton
  • Seine III (1917), an auxiliary ship

    • References

    French ship Seine Wikipedia
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