Several steamships have borne the name ''Main'': * was a 3,087-ton single-screw ocean liner built in 1868 by Caird & Co.,

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. New compound engines fitted in 1878. Owned 1868–1891 by the

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and 1891–1892 by the Anglo-American Steamship Co. On 23 March 1892, while on voyage from New Orleans to Liverpool with cattle and general cargo, destroyed by a fire at Prim Bay,

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, in the

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and left to disintegrate. * was a 715-ton cargo ship launched on 28 April 1904, by Mackie & Thomson in

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, Scotland. Sold and renamed ''Marden'' in 1926, sunk in collision with ''The Sultan'' off

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on 27 May 1929. * was a 2,662-ton cargo ship launched as ''Regina'' on 13 December 1906, by Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft in Flensburg, Germany. Sold and renamed ''Maria'' in 1921, sold again in 1924 and renamed ''Main''. Finally resold in 1927 and renamed ''Milos''. Struck a mine and sank off

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, Norway on 20 October 1944. * was a 964-ton cargo ship completed in January 1927 by

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in Stettin, Germany. Norwegian ownership under the name ''Røyksund'' from 1947, resold in 1955 to German owners and renamed ''Birka''. Delivered to ship breakers for scrapping in April 1961. * was a 7,624-ton passenger/cargo ship completed in January 1927 by

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in Bremen-Vegesack, Germany, for

. Requisitioned by the

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and used as a supply ship during the German invasion of Norway. Shelled and sunk by the Norwegian destroyer off

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on 9 April 1940.

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