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Many vessels have held the name of ''Diana''. They include:


Merchant vessels

* , of 288 tons burthen, was launched at Newbury. Between 1785 and 1794 she was 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 ...
in the British northern whale fishery, based in Hull. She then became a transport and a Baltic trader, and was last listed in 1801. * was launched 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 ...
. From 1805 she made four voyages as an East Indiaman under charter to 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 ...
. She made a fifth voyage to India in 1817 under a license from the EIC. She ran into difficulties in the Hooghly River while homeward bound and was condemned in Bengal in June 1818. * was launched as a West Indiaman. In 1802 she wrecked on the Isle of Pines, Cuba. * , a merchant vessel built at
Cochin Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of K ...
that wrecked in 1820 while participating in a punitive expedition against pirates at Ras al Khaimah * was a steam paddle steamer built as a merchant vessel and purchased by the Bengal Government in 1824. During the
First Anglo-Burmese War The First Anglo-Burmese War ( my, ပထမ အင်္ဂလိပ်-မြန်မာ စစ်; ; 5 March 1824 – 24 February 1826), also known as the First Burma War, was the first of three wars fought between the British and Burmes ...
she became the first steam-powered warship of the
Honourable 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 ...
to see action. She was transferred to the Burmese Government in 1826 and to back to the company for use by Singapore in 1837. * was built at
Whitby Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Clif ...
, England. She made a number of voyages between England, India and Quebec with cargo and undertook one voyage transporting
convict A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". Convicts are often also known as " prisoners" or "inmates" or by the slang term "con", while a common label for former conv ...
s to New South Wales. She was last listed in 1848. * , whaling ship, home port in Hull * , was a steam screw barque of , built in
Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such as Konne ...
. She took part in the 1892 Dundee Whaling Expedition to the Antarctic. * ''Diana'' (HBC vessel), built in 1880, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels


Naval vessels

* - any of 10 ships of the Royal Navy * , an
aviso An ''aviso'' was originally a kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication. The term, derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word for "advice", "notice" or "warning", an ...
of the Italian Regia Marina * was a frigateship of 4 guns the Dutch Navy purchased in 1799. The British
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 ...
captured her in 1804 * , an early 19th-century navy vessel * , a cruiser of the Imperial Russian Navy {{ship index Diana