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Queen (ship)

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ16874612 ↗
Source-derived summary

Queen may refer to the following:

HMS Queen Several ships of the English navy and Royal Navy

Queen (1225 ship), Henry III's great ship of 250 tons and no guns

Queen (East Indiaman), five ships that sailed for the British East India Company between about 1701 and about 1802.

Queen (1773 ship), transported convicts as part of the third fleet.

Queen (1795 ship) was launched at Quebec in 1795. She made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) and then became a West Indiaman, trading between London and West Indies. She was last listed in 1813.

Queen (1839 ship) was a steamship built by Pitcher, Northfleet. She was sold for breaking up in 1858.

Queen (1858 ship) was a paddle steamer built by Andrew Leslie & Co, Hebburn.

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The public source identifies “Queen (ship)” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Queen, ship and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1225, 1701, 1802, 1773—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Queen, ship and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Queen (ship)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.