French ship Seine
Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Seine in honour of the Seine river:
Ships named Seine
- Seine (1670), [1] or Seyne, a 6-gun ship captured from the Dutch.
- Seine (1671), [1] a 4-gun 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
- Seine (1720), [1] a Loire-class fluyt
- Seine (1768), [1] a Chameau-class fluyt
- Seine (1783), [1] a Seine-class fluyt
- Seine (1794), [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.
- 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]
- Seine (1808), [2] a 20-gun Loire-class fluyt
- Seine (1845), [2] a 26-gun fluyt
- Seine (1857), [2] a Dordogne-class transport
- Foudre (1891), [4] originally a torpedo-boat-tending cruiser and later to become the first seaplane tender in history, was started as Seine before being renamed.[5]
- Seine (1913), [4] a littoral transport ship
- Seine (1962), [4] a replenishment oiler
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Ships with related names
- Seine II (1917), an auxiliary ship, formerly the German Lynton[4]
- Seine III (1917), an auxiliary ship [4]
See also
Notes and References
Notes
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Roche, vol.1, p.409
- 1 2 3 4 5 Roche, vol.1, p.410
- ↑ Roche, vol.1, p.178
- 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 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 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.
