City of Edinburgh (ship)

City of Edinburgh may refer to a number of ships, all named after the city of Edinburgh, Scotland:

City of Edinburgh (1803 ship), a 304-ton (bm) ship built at Quebec by Henry Baldwin.
City of Edinburgh (1807 ship), of 526 tons (bm), was a Spanish prize brought into the Cape of Good Hope in 1807. Local investors purchased her and she traded with New South Wales and New Zealand. She foundered 46 leagues (138 nautical miles (256 km) off the Azores on 6 April 1812 while sailing from Lima to Cadiz.
City of Edinburgh (1813 ship), a 367-ton merchant ship built at Coringa in 1813, that transported convicts from Ireland to Port Jackson in 1828 and 1832. Later, she made a whaling voyage to New Zealand. In 1837 her owners sold her in London as a "Free Trader". She was wrecked in 1840.
City of Edinburgh (1822 ship), a 301-ton merchant ship built at London in 1821 or 1822. The General Steam Navigation Company purchased her in 1836; there is no record of her subsequent fate.
City of Edinburgh (1824 ship), a 454-ton merchant ship built in Leith in 1824 for the "Australian Company". Her crew abandoned her in the Atlantic in November 1841.
City of Edinburgh, of 599 "tons", was launched in 1852. George Smith & Sons sold her in to J. McAlister. In 1869 she was wrecked in Bay of Bengal.
City of Edinburgh, of 1,206 "tons", was launched in 1868. She sailed for George Smith & Co., and in 1874. In 1874 the vessel sank at Calcutta in a collision with French Empire.
HMT City of Edinburgh II was a trawler launched at Dundee in 1907. The British Admiralty requisitioned her in 1914 and again in 1915 and she served as the auxiliary patrol vessel HMT City of Edinburgh. She returned to civilian service in 1919; she was wrecked in 1952.

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