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French ship Loire

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ5502514 ↗
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Seventeen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Loire, after the longest river in France:

Loire (1668), a 6-gun flute

Loire (1686), a 30-gun flute

Loire (1720), a flute

Loire (1780), 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

Loire (1809), a scow

Loire (1814), a flute broken up in 1838

Loire (1827), a three-masted propeller-sail mixed transport vessel with a wooden hull.

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