A number of vessel were named ''Caroline'': * was a ship launched in France in 1792, possibly under another name. She was taken in prize in 1794 and sailed first as 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 ...

, then 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 finally as a

slave ship Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known as "Guineamen" because the trade involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea coast ...

. She was lost in 1801 on her second slave-trading voyage after she had delivered her slaves to Kingston, Jamaica. * was launched in 1799 or 1800 at Ipswich. She spent the first 40 years or so as a

. She then spent the remainder of her career trading more widely, particularly with Quebec. She was last listed in 1864 with minimal data unchanged since 1859. * , an American schooner that disappeared in 1802 * was a French privateer commissioned in

Saint-Malo Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, on the English Channel coast. The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Alli ...

in 1804. She served in the Indian Ocean, based at Mauritius. As she was returning to Saint-Malo, a British sloop captured her off Cape Finisterre in 1809; she was accidentally sunk shortly thereafter. * was a merchant vessel launched at Shoreham as a

. She spent almost her entire career sailing to the West Indies, and endured two maritime mishaps during that period, one at Sierra Leone. She sailed to Batavia in 1824 under a license from the British

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and South ...

(EIC). From Batavia she sailed to , where she was condemned. * was launched at Calcutta in 1805. She made one voyage for the British

(EIC). Thereafter, she became a London-based transport, sailing between England and India under a license from the EIC. She was wrecked in 1816. * was launched at Philadelphia in 1800. She was taken in

prize A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements.

. New owners retained her name and she appeared in British records from 1813. From 1820 on she was based at Hobart in

Van Diemen's Land Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration of Australia in the 19th century. A British settlement was established in Van Diemen's Land in 1803 before it became a sep ...

. From there she sailed to and from

Port Jackson Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The harbour is an inlet of the Tasman Sea ...

and on seal hunting voyages to

Macquarie Island Macquarie Island is an island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. Regionally part of Oceania and politically a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1900, it became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 197 ...

. She departed on a sealing voyage in November 1824 and wrecked at Macquarie Island in March 1825; her crew were rescued some five months later. * was built at Cochin, British India, in 1825. She sailed to the United Kingdom and took up British registry. She then sailed between England and India under a license from the British

(EIC). She made one voyage transporting convicts from Ireland to Australia. Later, she carried immigrants to Australia. She was wrecked in March 1850. * was launched at Nursapore. Her early career as a country ship, trading east of the Cape of Good Hope, is currently obscure. From 1834 on she proceeded to make six voyages as a

in the British Southern Whale Fishery. She disappeared from online records after her return to Great Britain in 1859. * ''Caroline'', of Hobart, Smith, master, foundered at Tonga 24 March 1831 while on a whaling voyage. * , Great Lakes steamer destroyed in 1837, triggering the

Caroline Affair The ''Caroline'' affair (also known as the ''Caroline'' case) was a diplomatic crisis beginning in 1837 involving the United States, the UK, and the Canadian independence movement. The modest military incident has taken grand international l ...

* ''Caroline'' a coastal cargo schooner built in 1845. She was lost off Broken Bay, during a gale in July 1860. * ''Caroline'', a blockade runner for the Confederate States of America, later * ''Caroline'', a 1931-built motor yacht, later the tender

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