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Princess Royal was a British merchant ship and blockade runner that became a cruiser in the Union Navy during the American Civil War and later returned to civilian service.
Several ships have been named after Bombay :
The Alphabet Fleet was a fleet of vessels owned and operated by the Reid Newfoundland Company as part of the provisioning of the 1898 Railway contract between the Dominion of Newfoundland and the Reid Newfoundland Company. The vessels were named after places in Scotland, the native homeland of Sir Robert Gillespie Reid, founder of the Reid Newfoundland Company.
Britannia may refer to any one of a large number of ships:
Many ships have borne the name Louisa, including:
Rolla may refer to a number of sailing ships;
A number of vessels have been named Alexander:
Numerous vessels have borne the name Coromandel, named for the Coromandel Coast.
Several ships have been named Sylph, for the Sylph, a mythological creature in western tradition.
Several merchant vessels have borne the name Diadem, after the Diadem, a type of crown:
Juliana was launched at Salkia, opposite Calcutta, in 1814. She spent almost all of her career trading between England and India. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC), in 1824–25; she ended this voyage in Quebec, becoming, with her consort, the first vessels to arrive at Quebec from China. She wrecked at Cape Town in 1839 while carrying immigrants from England to Sydney, New South Wales.
Several ships have borne the name Caledonia for Caledonia:
Thetis was launched at Chittagong in 1813. At some point she was renamed Countess of Loudoun for Flora Mure-Campbell, Marchioness of Hastings, Countess of Loudoun. She wrecked in early November 1816 off Palawan.
Several ships have been named Sesostris for Sesostris:
Several ships have been named Thetis for Thetis:
Several vessels have been named Lord Stanley.
Several vessels have been named Parnassus, for the mountain Parnassus.
References
- Rankin, John (1908). A History of Our Firm: Some Account of the Firm of Pollok, Gilmore and Co. and Its Offshoots and Connections. University Press of Liverpool.
