Britannia may refer to any one of a large number of ships:
Many vessels have been named Minerva for the mythological figure Minerva:
A number of sailing ships have been named Ocean.
A number of sailing ships have been named Blenheim:
A number of ships have been named Asia, including:
The French brig Néarque was an Abeille-class brig launched at Lorient in 1804. She made a voyage to the Caribbean in 1805. After the frigate HMS Niobe captured her in March 1806, the Royal Navy took her into Plymouth, but apparently laid her up in ordinary. She then disappears from the records until her sale in 1814.
A number of vessel were named Caroline:
Several vessels have borne the name Kitty, a diminutive for the name "Catherine", and a name in its own right:
British Tar was built in 1797 in Plymouth. She never enters Lloyd's Register under that name, suggesting that she may have been an American vessel that only came to Bristol, and was renamed, shortly before she sailed from Bristol in 1805. In 1805 she made a slave trading voyage during which the French captured her. She became the privateer Revanche, out of Guadeloupe. Revanche fought an inconclusive single-ship action in 1806 with HMS Curieux. The British captured Revanche in 1808.
Wilding was launched at Liverpool in 1788 and spent much of her career as a West Indiaman, sailing between Liverpool and Jamaica. During this time, in November 1794, she participated in a single-ship action during which her opponent, a French privateer, blew up. In 1798 after a series of captures and recaptures she briefly became a transport for the French Navy, but a final recapture returned her to British hands. Later, she made one voyage to the South Pacific as a whaler, and one voyage to the Cape of Good Hope as a victualler for the 1795-1796 invasion of the Cape. She traded with the West Indies, Africa, the United States, and Russia. Her crew abandoned her in September 1824, dismasted and in a sinking state.
Several ships have been named Adventure:
Several ships have been named Robert.
Sarah was launched at Hartlepool in 1800. Between 1807 and 1813 Sarah made two voyages as a whaler. As she was coming home from her first whaling voyage a French privateer captured her, but a British privateer recaptured her. After her whaling voyages Sarah became a transport, a West Indiaman, and traded with North America. She was last listed in 1826.
Several ships have been named Hannah:
Several ships have been named Ceres for Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture:
During the Age of Sail many merchant ships were named Ganges, after the Ganges river in India.
Prince George was launched in 1806 at Rotherhithe. She initially sailed as a West Indiaman. The French captured and released her in December 1814. She then sailed as a West Indiaman again, but towards the end of the 1820s started sailing to New South Wales. In 1834 she made a voyage under charter to the Hudson's Bay Company. Thereafter she traded between London and Quebec, and was last listed in 1854.
Several vessels have been named Prince George:
Several ships have been named Theodosia:
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