Woodlark (ship)

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Several ships have been named Woodlark after the woodlark:

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Several Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Woodlark or the woodlark:

HMS <i>Investigator</i> (1801)

HMS Investigator was the mercantile Fram, launched in 1795, which the Royal Navy purchased in 1798 and renamed HMS Xenophon, and then in 1801 converted to a survey ship under the name HMS Investigator. In 1802, under the command of Matthew Flinders, she was the first ship to circumnavigate Australia. The Navy sold her in 1810 and she returned to mercantile service under the name Xenophon. She was probably broken up c.1872.

Britannia may refer to any one of a large number of ships:

SS <i>Empire Energy</i>

Empire Energy was a 6,548 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1923 as Grete by Neptun AG, Rostock, Germany. She was sold to an Italian firm in 1932 and renamed Gabbiano. She was seized by the United Kingdom in 1940, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Energy. She served until 5 November 1941, when she ran aground off Cape Norman, Newfoundland, and was wrecked.

Sun was a brig built in 1819 at Sunderland and was condemned at the Cape of Good Hope in August 1822. She was repaired and began sailing east of the Cape. She was wrecked in May 1826 in the Torres Strait.

Numerous vessels have borne the name Coromandel, named for the Coromandel Coast.

A number of vessel were named Caroline:

New Zealand Company ships

The New Zealand Company was a 19th-century English company that played a key role in the colonisation of New Zealand. The company was formed to carry out the principles of systematic colonisation devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a new-model English society in the southern hemisphere. Under Wakefield's model, the colony would attract capitalists who would then have a ready supply of labour—migrant labourers who could not initially afford to be property owners, but who would have the expectation of one day buying land with their savings.

At least three vessels have been named Lady Cathcart:

Several ships have borne the name Caledonia for Caledonia:

Numerous vessels have borne the name Active :

Several ships have been named Bellona or Bellone for the Roman goddess Bellona:

Woodlark was launched at Moulmain in 1832. Circa 1835 she sailed to London and transferred to British registry. Between 1836 and 1844 she made two whaling voyages. In 1848 she transferred her ownership and registry to Sydney, from where she continued to sail for some time. She briefly appeared and was last listed as being in New Zealand in 1890–1891.

Woodlark was launched at Rotherhithe in 1819. She initially traded with the Mediterranean but then switched to trading with Australia, the Dutch East Indies, and Singapore. She was wrecked in April 1828 while sailing from Australia to the Cape of Good Hope on her way to England.

Several vessels have been named Venus for the planet Venus or the Roman goddess Venus:

Several vessels have been named Atalanta after the athlete Atalanta in ancient Greek mythology.