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Phoenix most often refers to:

Phoenix may also refer to:

Mythology

Greek mythological characters

Mythical birds called "phoenixes"

  • Hindu Garuda and Gandaberunda
  • Firebird (Slavic folklore), in Russian Zharptitsa, Polish Żar-ptak, Slovak Vták Ohnivák, also Hungarian Tűzmadár
  • Persian Simurgh, in Arabian Anka and Turkish Zümrüdü Anka, Georgian Paskunji
  • Chinese Fenghuang, in Japanese Hō-ō, Tibetan Me Byi Karmo
  • East Asian Vermilion Bird in Chinese Zhu Que, Japanese Suzaku, Korean Jujak, Vietnamese Chu Tước
  • Chol (bible), Avarshina, Urshinah or other transliterations of אורשינה

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Individual vessels

  • Phoenix, a ship involved in the 1688 Siege of Derry
  • Phoenix (1792), a ship involved in the sea otter trade
  • Phoenix (1794), the first ship built in Russian America
  • Phoenix (1798 ship), a ship that made one voyage in 1824 carrying convicts to Tasmania, and that grounded, was condemned, and was turned into a prison hulk until she was broken up in 1837
  • Phoenix (boat), a steamboat built 1806–1807
  • Phoenix (1809 ship), a ship built in France in 1809 that the British Royal Navy captured in 1810; she was employed as a whaling ship from 1811 to 1829
  • Phoenix (1815 steamer), a steamboat that burned on Lake Champlain in 1819; its wreck is a Vermont state historic site
  • Phoenix (1821 whaler), a Nantucket whaling vessel in operation 1821–1858
  • Phoenix (1845), a steamship that burned on Lake Michigan in 1847 with the loss of at least 190 lives
  • USCS Phoenix, a U.S. Coast Survey ship in service from 1845 to 1858
  • Phoenix (1929 ship), a Danish ship built in 1929
  • SS Flying Lark, which went by the name Phoenix from 1946 to 1948
  • Phoenix (fireboat), a 1955 fireboat operating in San Francisco, California
  • Phoenix (1973), a rescue vessel used to save migrants, refugees and other people in distress in the Mediterranean Sea

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