title: French ship Seine
text: # 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), or Seyne, a 6-gun ship captured from the Dutch.
  * French fluyt Seine (1671), a 4-gun fluyt
  * French 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
  * French fluyt Seine (1720), a Loire-class fluyt
  * French fluyt Seine (1768) (1768), a Chameau-class fluyt
  * French fluyt Seine (1783), a Seine-class fluyt
  * French frigate Seine, 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), 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.
  * French flute Seine (1806), 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), a 26-gun flute
  * French transport 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.
  * French transport Seine (1913), a littoral transport ship
  * French oiler Seine (1962), a replenishment oiler
  * 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
  * French ship Seine III (1917), an auxiliary ship
  