Many ships of the French Navy have borne the name Néréide, after the Nereid (sea nymphs):
Néréide (1690), a galley Néréide (1696), a 20-gun frigate , a 42-gun fourth rank, broken up in 1743. , a 32-gun , captured in 1797 by off the Scilly Isles and taken into service as HMS Nereide. The French recaptured her in 1810 during the Battle of Grand Port; she was broken up after being badly damaged. , a 44-gun frigate, captured in 1811 and taken into service as . She was struck from the Navy list in 1819. , a 46-gun frigate which bore the name Rancune , a 52-gun frigate , a launched in 1914 and struck in 1935