Giles Loring (March 26, 1813 – October 2, 1893)[1] was an American shipwright during a prolific period at Yarmouth Harbor in Maine.

[2] His shipyard was one of the four major ones during the town's peak years of 1850–1875,[3] and it launched the harbor's final vessel.

Loring's yard was on the eastern side of the Royal River, and it was there that he built 34 ships, mostly brigs and barques, with an average size of around 400 gross tons.

[5] He sometimes built in tandem with Charles Poole (his son-in-law), John M. Cobb or Benjamin Chadsey.

After retiring in 1890, he went bankrupt after his investment in a mineral spring in North Yarmouth failed.