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Several vessels have been named ''Chambers'': * was launched in Bristol in 1776. She spent most of her brief career 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 ...
. An American privateer captured her in October 1782. * was launched in America in 1781, possibly under the same name. ''Chambers'' first appeared in ''Lloyd's Register'' in 1783. She traded between Liverpool and Africa, but is not listed 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 foundered in 1792. * was launched at Liverpool in 1794. She was lost in 1795 as she was returning to Liverpool from Jamaica.


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* was an in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 and from 1955 to 1960. From 1952 to 1954, she was loaned to the United States Coast Guard where she served as USCGC ''Chambers'' (WDE-491). She was finally scrapped in 1975. {{ship index Ship names