''Defence'' as a ship name may refer to: * was launched at Deptford. She made three voyages to India, the Red Sea, and China for 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 Southea ...

(EIC) between 1736 and 1743 before she was sold out of the EIC's service * , a ship of the Connecticut State Navy, sunk in March 1779 after striking a reef in the

Thames River The River Thames ( ), known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the R ...

* , a privateer sunk in Maine in 1779 in the final stages of the

Penobscot Expedition The Penobscot Expedition was a 44-ship American naval armada during the Revolutionary War assembled by the Provincial Congress of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The flotilla of 19 warships and 25 support vessels sailed from Boston on July 1 ...

* , a privateer operated by the same syndicate that built the 1779 ship * launched at Shields. She spent much of her career as a London-based transport. In the 1820s she sailed between Scotland and North America, particularly to Canada. She was wrecked in March 1832.

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