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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 vessels have been named Alexander:
A number of sailing ships have been named Eliza.
Several vessels have been named Harriet, or Harriot:
The British East India Company (EIC) had Whim built for use as a fast dispatch vessel. She was sold in 1802 and became a whaler that a French privateer captured and released, and then a merchant vessel. She is no longer listed after 1822.
Many ships have been named Betsey or Betsy:
Numerous vessels have borne the name Fame:
Kingsmill was a French vessel launched in 1793 under a different name, captured in 1798, and sold to British owners who renamed her. She then became a slave ship, making three voyages from Africa to the West Indies. A French privateer captured her in 1804, but she returned to her owners in 1804. In 1807 she became a West Indiaman. In 1814 she became the first ship to trade with India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC) after the EIC lost its monopoly on British trade with India. She was badly damaged in 1821 and subsequently disappears from the registers.
Several ships have borne the name Caledonia for Caledonia:
Several vessels have been named Recovery:
Several ships have been named John:
Several vessels have been named Tartar:
Several vessels have been named Westmoreland:
Atalanta was launched in Holland in 1795, perhaps under another name. She was captured in 1798, and thereafter traded generally as a British merchantman. She was brig-rigged. Between 1801 and 1804 she made two voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people, and may have been temporarily captured during the second. She then became a West Indiaman. Next, between 1808 and 1814, she made two voyages as a whaler in Australian and New Zealand waters. After the whaling voyages she traded more widely, especially to the Baltic. She was last listed in 1833.
Several vessels have been named Prince Regent for George IV, of England, who was Prince regent from 1811 to his accession to the throne in 1826:
References
- Munro, Wilfred Harold (1881). The History of Bristol, R.I.: The Story of the Mount Hope Lands, from the Visit of the Northmen to the Present Time. Containing Accounts of the Indian Wars, the Character and Lives of the Early Settlers in Bristol, the Events of the Revolution, the Privateers of the War of 1812, Details of the Commerce of the Port, and Sketches of Its Distinguished Men. J.A. & R.A. Reid.
