Cyprus (ship)

Last updated December 31, 2023

Several vessels have borne the name Cyprus, named for the island of Cyprus:

Cyprus (1816 ship) was a ship launched at Sunderland in 1816 that in 1829 was seized and eventually scuttled by convicts that she was transporting from Hobart Town to Port Macquarie
SS Cyprus was a lake freighter that was launched in August 1907 and that sank during a gale storm on Lake Superior on 11 October 1907
MV Cyprus C, launched in 1944 as the Empire Fable, was an Empire F type coaster, renamed Cyprus C in 1948 and later renamed Yvonne Olivier (1950), Antonios (1954), and Copetrole I (1958)

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