Greyhound (ship)

Several vessels have been named Greyhound for the greyhound:

• Greyhound (1747 ship) was a coastal trading vessel launched in Whitby in 1747 or possibly before that was wrecked in a storm off the coast of County Sligo on 12 December 1770.
• Greyhound (1791 ship) was a smack launched at Dover in 1784, possibly under another name. From 1791, as Greyhound, she made two voyages as a whaler to the Southern Whale Fishery. She then became a West Indiaman. She was wrecked in 1796 as she was outward bound on a voyage to Jamaica.
• Greyhound (1816 ship) was launched at Java in 1816. She burnt in 1821.
• Greyhound (1890 sternwheeler) was an express passenger steamer that operated from the 1890s to about 1915 on Puget Sound in Washington, United States.

See also[]

• HMS Greyhound, any one of 16 vessels that served the English or Royal Navy
• USS Greyhound, any one of at least three vessels of the United States Navy

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