William (ship)

Several vessels have been named William:

• William (1770 ship) was a merchant vessel built in France in 1770 or 1771. From 1791 she made numerous voyages as a whaler. She also made one voyage in 1793 transporting supplies from England to Australia. She then resumed whaling, continuing until 1809.
• William (1800 ship) was launched at the Bombay Dockyard as a country ship. In 1801 she served as a transport in a naval campaign. In 1809 she made a voyage to London for the British East India Company (EIC). She survived several maritime incidents while sailing as a West Indiaman.
• William (1806 ship) was launched in Spain under another name and was taken in prize circa 1806. She made one voyage as a Liverpool-based slave ship. Thereafter she traded between Liverpool and Madeira. In 1814 an American privateer captured William.
• William was launched in 1814 at Topsham as HMS Tyne, which the Royal Navy sold in January 1825. Daniel Bennet & Sons purchased William for service as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. She was lost in the Bonin Islands in 1827.

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