Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Seine in honour of the Seine river:
Ships named Seine ,Roche, vol. 1, p. 409 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. ,Roche, vol. 1, p. 410 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.Roche, vol. 1, p. 178 ,Winfield and Roberts (2015), p. 378. 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),Roche, vol. 2, p. 445 originally a torpedo-boat-tending cruiser and later to become the first seaplane tender in history, was started as Seine before being renamed.Roche, vol. 2, p. 213 , a littoral transport ship (1962), a replenishment oiler
Ships with related names (1917), an auxiliary ship, formerly the German Lynton (1917), an auxiliary ship
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Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing).