Dart (ship)
Several vessels have borne the name Dart, for the dart or the River Dart:
- was launched at Plymouth. Between 1798 and 1801 she made four voyages as a slave ship and was condemned in 1801 at Demerara after having landed her slaves.
- Dart (1794 ship) was launched at Rotherhithe and made two voyages as a packet boat for the British East India Company; she then disappears from readily accessible online records.
- Dart (1799 ship) was launched at Dartmouth in 1799. Between 1800 and 1804 she made two complete voyages from Liverpool as a slave ship. She wrecked in 1804 early in the outward bound leg of her third slave voyage.
- Dart (1801 ship) was launched at Ostend in 1792, came into British hands in 1801, and became a sealer and whaler in the South Seas fisheries. She was last listed in 1810.
- Dart (1806 ship) was launched in South America in 1797, taken in prize in 1806, made one whaling voyage and one voyage as a privateer capturing five slave vessels off Sierra Leone in 1810, before returning to mercantile trade. She was condemned as unseaworthy in 1813.
- Dart (1818 ship) was a merchant ship built at Sunderland, England in 1818. She made three voyages transporting convicts from Mauritius to Australia.
- Dart (steamboat) operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.
- The Dart Line ferry operator had several vessels named Dart: ; ; MS Dart 3, a ferry, launched 1985, now known as MS Phocine; ; ; MS Dart 6, 1998, now known as MS Arrow; MS Dart 7, 1998, now known as MS Clipper Ranger; ; [1]
- The Dart Container Line operated MV Dart America, MV Dart Atlantic, and MV Dart Europe
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- ^ "Dart Line". Simplon Postcards. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
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