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Britannia may refer to any one of a large number of ships:
HMS Esperance was launched in America in 1781, and is first listed in Lloyd's Register in 1784 under the name Clementina. She then served as a slave ship, sailing out of Liverpool on two slave trading voyages. In 1786 Brent and Co. purchased her, renamed her Ellis, and sailed her for three more voyages as a slaver. In 1793 she became the privateer Ellis. The French captured her, then the Spanish, and then the French recaptured her. After returning to French ownership, she became the French corvette Esperance. The Royal Navy captured her in 1795 and took her into service as HMS Esperance. Thus, in her career, Esperance had changed hands six times. She was sold in 1798.
Several vessels have been named Thames, for the River Thames:
Several ships have been named Princess Amelia:
Several vessels have been named Harriet, or Harriot:
A number of vessel were named Caroline:
HMS Duguay-Trouin was an 18-gun French privateer sloop launched in 1779 at Le Havre. Surprise captured her in 1780 and the British Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name. It sold Duguay-Trouin on 30 October 1783. She then became the West Indiaman Christopher. She captured several French merchant vessels. Later she became a slave ship, making five voyages in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She was lost at Charleston in September 1804 in a hurricane.
Numerous vessels have borne the name Fame:
Numerous vessels have borne the name Active :
Numerous vessels have been named Adventure:
Several ships have been named Hannah:
Horatio was launched in 1800 at Liverpool. She made four voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. During two of these voyages she was captured and recaptured. Shortly before the British slave trade ended she left the slave trade and sailed between Britain and South America and as a West Indiaman. She was wrecked in 1817.
Several ships have been named John:
Fame was launched in India in 1786. She was sold to Portuguese owners. A French privateer captured but the Royal Navy recaptured her in 1794. She then became a West Indiaman, sailing from Liverpool. Between 1796 and 1804 she made three voyages as a slave ship. She then returned to the West Indies trade. From 1818 on she was a whaler in the Greenland whale fishery, sailing from Whitby and then Hull. She burnt in 1823 while outward bound on a whaling voyage.
Several vessels have been named Tartar:
William Heathcote was launched in Liverpool in 1800. She made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Next, a French privateer captured her in a single-ship action, and the British Royal Navy recaptured her. She became a West Indiaman before she made an enslaving voyage, one of the last such legal voyages. zAfter British partiipation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended, she became a West Indiaman again; she sailed to Brazil and as a transport. She was wrecked in July 1816.
Backhouse was launched in 1785 at Chester. She initially sailed as a West Indiaman. In 1792–1793 she made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. In 1796 and again in 1797 she repelled an attack by a French privateer in single-ship actions. Backhouse made four more slave trading voyages and then returned to the West Indies trade. After about 1809 she became a London coaster and was last listed in 1813.
Several vessels have been named Venus for the planet Venus or the Roman goddess Venus:
Several vessels have been named Lord Stanley.
References
- ↑ "Woolton". Wear Built Ships. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ↑ "SV Woolton (+1907)". WreckSite. Affligem, Belgium: Adelante EBVBA. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ↑ "Loss of a Fowey Schooner". Cornish Telegraph. No. 2974. Penzance. 21 March 1907. p. 2. Retrieved 3 February 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Woolton". Shipping and Shipbuilding: British and Irish Shipyards. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ↑ "Missing Vessels". Lloyd's List. No. 17538. London. 15 November 1893. p. 5. Retrieved 3 February 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Missing Vessels". Daily Telegraph. No. 4492. Sydney, New South Wales. 17 November 1893. p. 6. Retrieved 3 February 2023– via Trove.
