French ship Loire
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.