Several ships have ''Zephyr'' for the light wind. * was built at Whitby in 1781. She was abandoned in 1840. * was built on the River Thames in 1790 as a

West Indiaman West Indiaman was a general name for any merchantman sailing ship making runs from the Old World to the West Indies and the east coast of the Americas. These ships were generally strong ocean-going ships capable of handling storms in the Atlantic ...

. From c.1796 she started to serve the British

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

(EIC) as a packet ship. However, a French privateer captured her in 1798. * was a vessel built at Hull in 1796. She initially traded with the Baltic, though for a year or so she was a London-based transport. From 1810 she made 27 voyages as a

whaler A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales. Terminology The term ''whaler'' is mostly historic. A handful of nations continue with industrial whaling, and one, Jap ...

in the northern whale fishery. She returned to mercantile trade and was last listed in 1853. * , was a vessel built in the United States in 1810 or 1811 that came into British hands circa 1813. Between 1814 and 1840, when she was lost, she made eight voyages as a

in the southern whale fishery. * was launched at Sunderland. Her crew abandoned her in 1840. * , an 1842 opium clipper * , a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet * , research vessel

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