Several ships have been named ''Kingston'':
* was launched at Bristol. Between 1798 and 1817 she made ten voyages as a
whaler
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
Terminology
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. She was last listed in 1819.
* was launched in 1806 at Whitby and spent her career trading primarily between England and the West Indies, though also trading with Sicily, America, and India, and possibly Russia. Her crew abandoned her at sea in 1819 when she developed a leak.
* was launched in 1806 at Liverpool. She made one voyage 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 ...
and then traded with the West Indies until she was lost in 1809.
* was launched in 1811 at Bristol. She spent the first part of her career trading with the West Indies, but then made two voyages for the British East India Company. Thereafter she traded between England and India and England and Quebec until she was lost in 1833.
See also
* – one of five ships of the Royal Navy
*, a
''Kingston''-class coastal defence vessel in the Canadian Forces since 1996
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