Several vessels, mercantile and naval, have been named ''Borneo'' for the island of

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Mercantile

* , was launched on the Thames and made two voyages (1713–1716, and 1718–1720), for the British

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to Borneo and Bencoolen before transferring to the West Indies trade. * ''Borneo'', of 350, 382, or 400 tons ( bm), was a country ship, probably launched at Pegu after 1809, that served as a transport for the British invasions of Mauritius (1810) and Java (1811). She appeared, with Benjamin Ferguson, master, on a list of vessels registered at Calcutta in January 1811. She was lost at Madagascar in 1814. * was a merchant ship built in Borneo that undertook one voyage transporting convicts to

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in 1828. She was wrecked in 1832 on her first whaling voyage. * ''Borneo'', of 223 tons (bm), left Boston in December 1817 on a fur hunting voyage. A gale wrecked her on 28 January 1819 at

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, Alaska; crew saved. *''Borneo'', of 297 tons (bm) was launched at

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, in 1831; her crew abandoned her in the North Atlantic on 1 January 1854.

Naval

* , gunboat of the Royal Netherlands Navy, launched 1892 * HMT ''Borneo'' (FY 1809), was a trawler launched in 1905 for Grant & Robinson, Grimsby, (GY115). The British Royal Navy requisitioned her in November 1914. She struck a

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off

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on 18 June 1917 that had laid earlier that day. ''Borneo'' was lost with 11 of her 14 crew. {{italic title Ship names