Zephyr (ship)

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Several ships have Zephyr for the light wind.

  • Zephyr (1790 ship) was built on the River Thames in 1790 as a West Indiaman. From c.1796 she started to serve the British East India Company (EIC) as a packet ship. However, a French privateer captured her in 1798.
  • , of 280 tons burthen, was built in America in 1810. Between 1812 and 1840 she made nine voyages as a whaler in the southern whale fisheries. She was lost on 1 April 1840.
  • was launched at Sunderland. Her crew abandoned her in 1840.
  • Zephyr (schooner), an 1842 opium clipper
  • Zephyr (steamboat), a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
  • RV Zephyr, research vessel

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