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

== Ships named ''Seine'' ==
* {{ship|French fluyt|Seine|1670}},<ref name="roche409">Roche, vol.1, p.409</ref> or ''Seyne'', a 6-gun ship captured from the Dutch.
* {{ship|French fluyt|Seine|1671}},<ref name="roche409" /> a 4-gun [[fluyt]]
* {{ship|French fluyt|Seine|1698}},<ref name="roche409" /> a 44-gun fluyt, captured by the British on 26 July 1704 and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Falkland Prize''
* {{ship|French fluyt|Seine|1720}},<ref name="roche409" /> a {{sclass|Loire|fluyt|2}}
* {{ship|French fluyt|Seine|1768}} (1768),<ref name="roche409" />  a {{sclass|Chameau|fluyt|2}}
* {{ship|French fluyt|Seine|1783}},<ref name="roche409" /> a {{sclass|Seine|fluyt|2}}
* {{ship|French frigate|Seine}},<ref name="roche409" /> a 40-gun frigate, lead ship of [[Seine-class frigate|her class]]. Captured by three British frigates during the [[action of 30 June 1798]] and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Seine''.
* {{ship|French gunboat|Seine|1798}},<ref name="roche410">Roche, vol.1, p.410</ref> a gunboat commissioned on the Nile
* {{ship|French ship|Escaut|1803|2}} (1800),<ref name="roche410" /> a fluyt. She was renamed to ''Seine'' at the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon Restoration]], and bore the name ''Escaut'' again during the [[Hundred Days]] before being renamed back to ''Seine''.<ref name="roche178">Roche, vol.1, p.178</ref> 
* {{ship|French flute|Seine|1806}},<ref>Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.378.</ref>  a 20-gun {{sclass|Loire|flûte|0}} [[En flûte|flûte]] that her crew scuttled to avoid her capture in 1809 by the British Royal Navy
* {{ship|French fluyt|Seine|1845}},<ref name="roche410" /> a 26-gun flute
* {{ship|French transport|Seine|1857}},<ref name="roche410" /> a {{sclass|Dordogne|transport|1}}
* {{ship|French seaplane carrier|Foudre||2}} (1891),<ref name="roche445">Roche, vol.2, p.445</ref> originally a torpedo-boat-tending cruiser and later to become the first [[seaplane tender]] in history, was started as ''Seine'' before being renamed.<ref name="roche213">Roche, vol.2, p.213</ref> 
* {{ship|French transport|Seine|1913}},<ref name="roche445" /> a littoral transport ship
* {{ship|French oiler|Seine}} (1962),<ref name="roche445" /> a [[replenishment oiler]]

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|File:HMS Jason and the Seine.jpg|The [[Action of 30 June 1798]] where {{HMS|Jason|1794|6}} captured {{HMS|Seine|1798|2}}
|File:La Foudre.jpg|{{ship|French seaplane carrier|Foudre||2}}, ex-''Seine'', circa 1914
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== Ships with related names ==
* {{ship|French ship|Seine II}} (1917), an auxiliary ship, formerly the German ''Lynton''<ref name="roche445" />
* {{ship|French ship|Seine III}} (1917), an auxiliary ship <ref name="roche445" />

== See also ==
* {{HMS|Seine}}

==Notes and references==
=== Notes ===
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===References===
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=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book|first=Jean-Michel|last=Roche|year=2005|title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours|isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6|oclc=165892922|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau|volume=1|pages=409–410}}
* {{cite book|first=Jean-Michel|last=Roche|year=2005|title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours|isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6|oclc=165892922|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau|volume=2|page=250}}
*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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