Amelia (ship) explained

Several ships have born the name Amelia:

• was Admiral Maarten Tromp's flagship during part of the Eighty Years' War.
• was a ship launched in 1787 in France that the British captured. Under her British owners she made one voyage as a whaler and one voyage as a slave ship. She is last listed in 1806.
• was a ship built in Demaun that the French Navy captured in 1796 as Amelia was carrying rice to Britain.
• Amelia (1800), of 200 tons (bm),^[1] was a government transport built in Bristol that a French privateer captured in 1800, and that the Guernsey privateer cutter Maria recaptured and sent into Gibraltar.^[2] She was captured a second time and this time her captors took her into Algeciras.^[3]
• was built in Massachusetts in 1809 probably under another name. The British captured her in 1813 and she was a British merchantman until she foundered in 1829.
• was a ship that disappeared in 1816 after leaving Sydney for China.
• was a passenger ship built in 1900, and Royal yacht for the Portuguese monarch until 1910.

See also

• was built in France under another name and captured by the British in 1809. Her new owners renamed her and she became a West Indiaman. She later became a whaler and was wrecked in 1833 on her fifth whaling voyage.
• - any one of four ships of the Royal Navy, with a fifth planned
• – any one of four vessels

Notes and References

1. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021233591?urlappend=%3Bseq=30 Register of Shipping (1800), Seq..no.A305.
2. News: The Marine List . Lloyd's List . 4134 . 17 March 1801 . 2027/uc1.c2735020?urlappend=%3Bseq=51.
3. News: The Marine List . Lloyd's List . 4147 . 1 May 1801 . 2027/hvd.32044105233084?urlappend=%3Bseq=77.