French ship Loire

Seventeen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Loire, after the longest river in France:
 * FRENCH SHIP Loire, a 6-gun flute
 * FRENCH SHIP Loire, a 30-gun flute
 * FRENCH SHIP Loire, a flute
 * FRENCH SCOW Loire, a scow
 * FRENCH FRIGATE Loire, 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
 * FRENCH SCOW Loire, a scow
 * Loire (1814), a flute broken up in 1838
 * FRENCH SHIP Loire, a three-masted propeller-sail mixed transport vessel with a wooden hull.
 * FRENCH SCOW Loire, a scow
 * FRENCH SHIP Loire, a Dordogne-class troopship
 * FRENCH SHIP Prince Jérôme (1854), a Hercule-class ship of the line, was converted into a transport in 1872 as Loire
 * FRENCH BARQUE Loire (1915), a commandeered four-masted barque
 * FRENCH SHIP Loire, a requisitioned steam ship
 * FRENCH SHIP Loire, a requisitioned cargo ship
 * FRENCH OILER Loire, an oiler
 * FRENCH SHIP Loire, (1965–2009) a mine countermeasures support ship
 * Loire (A602), (2018-present) lead ship of her class of four offshore support and assistance vessels deployed in Metropolitan France