Several ships have been named ''Majestic'':

Sail

* was launched at Whitby. She was a London-based transport, though she also sailed to the Baltic. She was sold to the government in 1810. * was launched as the mercantile ''Majestic'' at Whitby in 1801. The British

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purchased ''Majestic'' in 1803. She had an uneventful career and the Navy sold her in 1810. * was launched at Whitby. She served the government as a transport until she burned at Barbados on 20 October 1808. * was launched at Sunderland. She was a northern whale fishery

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that was wrecked on 16 July 1819 in

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. * was launched at Sunderland. * was launched at Aberdeen. In 1838 she transported convicts to Tasmania. She was last listed in 1843.

Steam

* was a steamship built in 1889 for the

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. The

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provided a subsidy on the condition that she was designed for rapid conversion for Royal Navy use in wartime as an armed merchant cruiser. She was scrapped in 1914. * was a White Star

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on the

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run, originally launched in 1914 as the

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liner SS ''Bismarck''. Due to World War I she never sailed under the German flag except on sea trials in 1922. She served successfully throughout the 1920s but the onset of the

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made her increasingly unprofitable. She was sold off for

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but the British Admiralty intervened and she served the Royal Navy as the training ship HMS ''Caledonia'' before catching fire in 1939 and sinking. She was subsequently raised and scrapped in 1943.

Royal Navy

* - four active service vessels (sail and steam) of the Royal Navy, plus one planned. {{ship index Ship names