Several ships have born the name Amelia:

  • Dutch ship Aemilia (1632) was Admiral Maarten Tromp's flagship during part of the Eighty Years' War.
  • Amelia (1795 ship) 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.
  • Amelia (1796 ship) 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]
  • Amelia (1813 ship) 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.
  • Amelia (1816 ship) was a ship that disappeared in 1816 after leaving Sydney for China.
  • Amélia IV was a passenger ship built in 1900, and Royal yacht for the Portuguese monarch until 1910.

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References

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  1. ^ Register of Shipping (1800), Seq..no.A305.
  2. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4134. 17 March 1801. hdl:2027/uc1.c2735020.
  3. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4147. 1 May 1801. hdl:2027/hvd.32044105233084.