Diana (ship)
Wikimedia list of ships
Many vessels have held the name of Diana. They include:
Merchant vessels
Diana (1774 ship), of 288 tons burthen, was launched at Newbury. Between 1785 and 1794 she was a whaler in the British northern whale fishery, based in Hull. She then became a transport and a Baltic trader, and was last listed in 1801.
Diana (1799 ship) was launched as a West Indiaman. From 1805 she made four voyages as an East Indiaman under charter to the British East India Company. She made a fifth voyage to India in 1817 under a license from the EIC. She ran into difficulties in the Hooghly River while homeward bound and was condemned in Bengal in June 1818.
Diana (1799 Topsham ship) was launched as a West Indiaman. In 1802 she wrecked on the Isle of Pines, Cuba.
Diana (1818 ship), a merchant vessel built at Cochin that wrecked in 1820 while participating in a punitive expedition against pirates at Ras al Khaimah
Diana (1823) was a steam paddle steamer built as a merchant vessel and purchased by the Bengal Government in 1824.
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