French ship Seine explained

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

Ships named Seine

,^[1] or Seyne, a 6-gun ship captured from the Dutch.
, a 4-gun fluyt
, a 44-gun fluyt, captured by the British on 26 July 1704 and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Falkland Prize
, a
(1768), a
, a
, 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.
,^[2] a gunboat commissioned on the Nile
(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.^[3]
,^[4] a 20-gun flûte that her crew scuttled to avoid her capture in 1809 by the British Royal Navy
, a 26-gun flute
, a
(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]
, a littoral transport ship
(1962), a replenishment oiler

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