A number of ships have been named ''Timandra'' for the mythological
Timandra:
* was launched in 1814. She started trading with India and made one voyage for the British
East India Company
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(EIC) before she was lost off the
Lofoten
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Islands in 1822.
* was launched in 1822 at Whitby. She sailed to India and South East Asia until she disappeared in June 1829 after leaving Batavia with a cargo of rice for Antwerp.
* was built at
Littlehampton
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and in 1841–42 carried immigrants to New Zealand for the
New Zealand Company
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; ''
Lloyd's Register
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'' for 1869 carries the notation "Wrecked" under her name.
''Lloyd's Register'' (1869), â„–276.
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* was launched at Sunderland. In October 1858 she was sailing from Newcastle to Rockhampton with 105 passengers when she wrecked on Timandra Bank, Keppel Bay
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Extent
Keppel Bay extends from Station Point on Curtis Island () in the Gladstone Region to Zilzie Point at Zilzie () i ...
.
*, a merchant ship of 1562GRT, was built by Robert Duncan & Co., Glasgow. She was a fully rigged sailing ship and disappeared in March 1917 after having left Norfolk with a cargo of coal for Buenos Aires.
The following steamships were operated by A. Kirsten:
*, to Kaiserliche Marine
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The adjective ''kaiserlich'' means "imperial" and was used in the German-speaking countries to refer to those institutions and establishments over which the ''Kaiser'' ("emperor") had immediate personal power of control.
The term wa ...
in 1914
*, purchased 1939, seized by the United Kingdom in 1945
*, sold in 1971
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