French ship Loire

Sixteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Loire, after the longest river in France:

• , a 6-gun flute
• , a 30-gun flute
• , a flute
• , a scow
• Loire (1796), a 44-gun frigate
• Loire (1803), a 20-gun flute, lead ship of her two-vessel her class; destroyed with her classmate in 1809 to avoid capture by the Royal Navy
• , a scow
• Loire (1814), a flute broken up in 1838
• Loire (1827), a three-masted propeller-sail mixed transport vessel with a wooden hull.
• , a scow
• , a Dordogne-class troopship
• Prince Jérôme (1854), a Hercule-class ship of the line, was converted into a transport in 1872 as Loire
• (1915), a commandeered four-masted barque
• , a requisitioned steam ship
• , a requisitioned cargo ship
• , an oiler
• , (1965–2009) a mine countermeasures support ship Loire (French) (Google Translate – Loire (English))

Sources and references[]

• NetMarine

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