Sandown (ship)

• Two vessels sailing in the 1790s have both borne the name Sandown. Only one appears in Lloyd's Register , and the apparent uniqueness of the name and the fact that the two vessels were sailing near Havana in 1794 has caused researchers possibly to conflate the two. Sandown is a seaside resort on the Isle of Wight, England.
  • Sandown (1786 ship) was foreign-built, and first appears in readily accessible records in 1786. A French privateer captured her in 1794 but the British Royal Navy recaptured her. A hurricane shortly thereafter drove her ashore and wrecked her.
  • Sandown (1788 ship) was built in France in 1781, purchased in England c.1788, conducted a notable slave trading voyage in 1793-1794, and is last listed in 1798.
• PS Sandown, a ferry operating between the Isle of Wight and the mainland between 1934 and 1966

See also

• HMS Sandown, one of three vessels by that name that served the British Royal Navy