Many vessels have been named ''Aurora'', generally for
the Roman goddess of the dawn:
Mercantile
* was launched at Philadelphia in 1779. She did not appear in British registers until 1800. She then made four complete voyages as a
slave ship in the
triangular trade in enslaved people. On her fifth voyage she sustained damage. She was condemned at Jamaica in 1807 after having landed the enslaved people that she was carrying.
* was launched at
Kingston upon Hull. She traded with the Baltic until 1803 when she became a Greenland
whaler. In 1808 she brought in a record amount of whale oil. She was lost in 1821 on her 18th voyage to the
northern whale fishery.
* was launched at
Whitby. Between 1799 and 1806 she made four voyages as a
whaler in the
southern whale fishery. She is last listed in 1809 with stale data since her whaling voyages.
* was launched at
Calcutta; she made two voyages for the British
East India Company (EIC) and was lost circa 1822.
* was launched at Chester in 1793 as a
West Indiaman. During her career first the French and then the United States captured her, but she returned to British hands. Between 1801 and 1808 she made four voyages as a
slave ship. After the end in 1807 of the British slave trade she continued to trade widely until 1831.
* was launched at Whitby. She took settlers to South Africa under the British government's
1820 Settlers
The 1820 Settlers were several groups of British colonists from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, settled by the government of the United Kingdom and the Cape Colony authorities in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1820.
Origins
After th ...
scheme. She was last listed in 1847.
* was launched at
Chittagong
Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B ...
; she twice
transported
''Transported'' is an Australian convict melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln. It is considered a lost film.
Plot
In England, Jessie Grey is about to marry Leonard Lincoln but the evil Harold Hawk tries to force her to marry him and she wou ...
convicts to Australia and in 1840 brought migrants for the
New Zealand Company to Wellington, New Zealand; she was wrecked on 27 April 1840 after having landed her migrants
* ''Aurora'' (1874 ship) was launched in
Greenock
Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh of barony, burgh within the Counties of Scotland, historic ...
for
James Thompson & Co. She was lost in 1875 when her cargo of wool caught fire.
* , an 1876 steam yacht used for Antarctic exploration that made several Antarctic expeditions
* , several steamships
* , several motor ships
Naval
* was a
sloop-of-war
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...
launched at
Bombay Dockyard for the
Bombay Marine
The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was the naval force of British India and the Dominion of India. Along with the Presidency armies, later the Indian Army, and from 1932 the Royal Indian Air Force, it was one of the Armed Forces of British India.
Fr ...
. She was still listed on the rolls of the Bombay Marine on 1 January 1828.
* — any of several
Royal Navy ships
* , a 1833 Russian Imperial Navy
frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat.
The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
famous its part in
Siege of Petropavlovsk
The siege of Petropavlovsk was a military operation in the Pacific theatre of the Crimean War. The Russian casualties are estimated at 115 soldiers and sailors killed and seriously wounded, whilst the British suffered 105 casualties and th ...
* , a 1900 Russian Imperial Navy
cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several roles.
The term "cruiser", which has been in use for several hu ...
that was key to the
October Revolution
* (SP-345), a United States Navy
tugboat and
minesweeper
Other
* , Danish
research vessel owned by Aarhus University.
* , a
cable layer
A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electric power transmission, military, or other purposes. Cable ships are distinguished by large cable sheaves for guiding cab ...
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