Several ships have been named Roxburgh Castle for Roxburgh Castle:
Roxburgh Castle is a ruined royal castle that overlooks the junction of the rivers Tweed and Teviot, in the Borders region of Scotland. Its castleton developed into the royal burgh of Roxburgh, which the Scots destroyed along with the castle after capturing it in 1460. Today the ruins stand in the grounds of Floors Castle, the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe, across the river from Kelso.
- Roxburgh Castle (1809 ship) was launched in Spain in 1803 under another name. She was taken in prize in 1809 and her new owners renamed her. She was wrecked in 1814.
- Roxburgh Castle (1825 ship) was launched by Wigrams & Green, Blackwall. She made two voyages for the British East India Company, during the first of which she captured a slave schooner with 125 slaves that she delivered to Sierra Leone. She was condemned as unseaworthy after survey in 1842 and sold for breaking up.
- Roxburgh Castle (1852 ship) was launched at Sunderland. She was sold to a Danish company in 1870. She was wrecked in 1872.
- Roxburgh Castle (1880 ship) was an iron screw-steamer launched at Sunderland. She was sunk in a collision with British Peer in 1891. [1]
- Roxburgh Castle (1937 ship), of 7,801 GRT, was launched by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, as a refrigerated cargo ship. She sustained some bomb damage on 21 December 1940 and again on 4 May 1941. U-107 torpedoed and sank her in the Atlantic Ocean on 22 February 1943 at ( 38°12′N26°22′W / 38.200°N 26.367°W ), north of the Azores, Portugal.
- Roxburgh Castle (1945), of 8,003 GRT, was built by Harland and Wolff. She was broken up in 1971.
Roxburgh Castle was launched in Spain in 1803 under another name. She was taken in prize in 1809 and her new owners renamed her. She was wrecked in 1814.
Roxburgh Castle was launched by Wigrams & Green, Blackwall, in 1825. She made two voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), during the first of which she captured a slave schooner with 125 slaves that she delivered to Sierra Leone. She carried immigrants to New South Wales in 1838–1839. She was condemned as unseaworthy after survey at Mauritius and in 1842 was sold for breaking up.
The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company, and informally known as John Company, Company Bahadur, or simply The Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with Mughal India and the East Indies, and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia, and colonised Hong Kong after a war with Qing China.
