Several vessels have been named ''Nile'' either for the

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, or for the

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river:

Sailing ships

* was a sailing ship built in 1799 at Howden, England. She made one voyage transporting convicts to

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. For her return trip to Britain she was under contract to the British

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(EIC). Thereafter she traded between London and the West Indies, Canada, and the Mediterranean until she stranded on 22 November 1833 on the island of

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. * was built in Spain in 1786 and was taken in prize. She first appears in readily accessible British records in 1800. She made three voyages as a

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, foundering on her third after having disembarked her slaves. * was launched at Nantes in 1795 and was captured or purchased from the French in 1802. She then made four voyages as a slave trader. Between her first and second slave trading voyages she cruised for less than a year as a privateer. With the abolition of British participation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1807, ''Nile'' became a regular merchantman, but now trading with Africa. She was sold in Barbados in 1811.

Steam ships

* , sank off Godrevy Head, Cornwall in 1854 * SS ''Nile'' (1919), later , torpedoed in 1941

Sailing ships

Steam ships

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