Several ships have born the name ''Amelia'':
* was Admiral Maarten Tromp's flagship during part of the Eighty Years' War.
* was a ship launched in 1787 in France that the British captured. Under her British owners she made one voyage as a
whaler
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
Terminology
The term ''whaler'' is mostly historic. A handful of nations continue with industrial whaling, and one, Japa ...
and one voyage as a
slave ship
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. She is last listed in 1806.
* was a ship built in Demaun that the French Navy captured in 1796 as ''Amelia'' was carrying rice to Britain.
* was built in Massachusetts in 1809 probably under another name. The British captured her in 1813 and she was a British merchantman until she foundered in 1829.
* was a ship that disappeared in 1816 after leaving Sydney for China.
* was a passenger ship built in 1900, and Royal yacht for the Portuguese monarch until 1910.
See also
* was built in France under another name and captured by the British in 1809. Her new owners renamed her and she became a
West Indiaman
West Indiaman was a general name for any merchantman sailing ship making runs from the Old World to the West Indies and the east coast of the Americas. These ships were generally strong ocean-going ships capable of handling storms in the Atlantic ...
. She later became a
whaler
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
Terminology
The term ''whaler'' is mostly historic. A handful of nations continue with industrial whaling, and one, Japa ...
and was wrecked in 1833 on her fifth whaling voyage.
* - any one of four ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
, with a fifth planned
* – any one of four vessels
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