List of ships named Meteor explained

A number of ships have been named Meteor after a meteor or shooting star, including the following:

Naval and Government vessels

• , several ships of the Royal Navy
• , several ships of the German Navy
• , a troop transport of the US Army, built 1899 as Chester W. Chapin
• , several ships of the United States Navy
• Meteoro (1848), a brigantine that served in the Mexican and Chilean navies
• Meteor (1877), a salvage vessel, built as Hermes, that served in the Russian and Soviet navies 1916–1958^[1]
• (1887), a gunboat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy^[2]
• Meteoro-class, a class of Spanish offshore patrol vessels
  • Meteoro (2009), the first-of-class
• , an early steam packet of the British Post Office^[3]
• Meteor (1915), a German survey ship
• Meteor (1964), a German research vessel^[4]
• Meteor (1986), a German research vessel
• a new German research vessel under construction, completion planned for 2026^[5]

Merchant ships

• , a British coastal passenger ship, later with the Romanian Government^[6]
• , a whaleback freighter on the Great Lakes, now a museum ship in Superior, Wisconsin
• , an ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line, and later with Bergen Line; sunk by aircraft 9 March 1945^[7]
• One of several Type C2 ships built for the United States Maritime Commission:
  • (MC hull number 127, Type C2-T), built by Tampa Shipbuilding; transferred to the United States Navy as Arcturus-class attack cargo ship USS Electra (AKA-4); scrapped in 1974
  • (MC hull number 292, Type C2-S-B1), built by Moore Dry Dock; sold for commercial use under the name American Miller in 1948; scrapped in 1970
• , a cruise ship of Bergen Line, then later with Epirotiki Line as Neptune; scrapped in 2002^[8]
• , a Soviet seagoing passenger hydrofoil design; over 400 built from 1959 to 2006^[9]

Yachts

• Meteor (1887 yacht) (1887), Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht, formerly Thistle
• , Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht

See also

• HMS Meteorite, an experimental submarine

Notes and References

1. ,MSI. 5617260. Hermes. 2024-03-31.
2. ,MSI. 1091097. Meteor. 2024-03-31.
3. Web site: Michael . Chris . Post-office Steam Packets . Liverpool University . 31 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240203230721/https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~cmi/books/earlySS/poSS.html . 3 February 2024 . live.
4. Web site: FS Meteor . Universität Hamburg . 31 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140225205634/http://www.ifm.zmaw.de/fileadmin/files/leitstelle/meteor/METEORvirtuell/geschichte-meteor2.html . 25 February 2014 . de . dead.
5. https://www.nordsee-zeitung.de/Bremerhaven/Bau-des-Forschungsschiffs-Meteor-Werften-vereinen-ihr-Know-how-227974.html
6. ,MSI. 1091097. Meteor. 2024-03-31.
7. ,MSI. 1143316. Meteor. 2024-03-31.
8. ,MSI. 5233535. Meteor. 2024-03-31.
9. News: Winged ships: Soviet hydrofoils forgotten and reborn . 31 March 2024 . Russia Beyond . 11 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230315102333/https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/334193-soviet-hydrofoils-history . 15 March 2023 . Moscow.