List of ships named Aurora

Many vessels have been named Aurora, generally for the Roman goddess of the dawn:

Mercantile

• Aurora (1779 ship) was launched at Philadelphia in 1779. She did not appear in British registers until 1800. She then made four voyages as a slave ship. Next, she became a West Indiaman and was last listed in 1813.
• Aurora (1782 ship) was launched at Kingston upon Hull. She traded with the Baltic until 1803 when she became a Greenland whaler. In 1808 she brought in a record amount of whale oil. She was lost in 1821 on her 18th voyage to the Northern Whale Fishery.
• Aurora (1789 ship) was launched at Whitby. Between 1799 and 1806 she made four voyages as a whaler in the Southern Whale Fishery. She is last listed in 1809 with stale data since her whaling voyages.
• Aurora (1790 ship) was launched at Calcutta; she made two voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) and was lost circa 1822.
• Aurora (1793 ship) was launched at Chester in 1793 as a West Indiaman. During her career first the French and then the United States captured her, but she returned to British hands. Between 1801 and 1808 she made four voyages as a slave ship. She continued to trade widely until 1831.
• Aurora (1808 ship) was launched at Whitby. She carried settlers to South Africa under the British government's 1820 Settlers scheme. She was last listed in 1847.
• Aurora (1816 ship) was launched at Chittagong; she twice transported convicts to Australia and in 1840 brought immigrants for the New Zealand Company to Wellington, New Zealand; she was wrecked on 27 April 1840 after having landed her immigrants
• SY Aurora, an 1876 steam yacht used for Antarctic exploration that made several Antarctic expeditions
• SS Aurora, several steamships
• MV Aurora, several Motor Vessels

Naval

• HCS Aurora (1809) was a sloop-of-war launched at Bombay Dockyard for the Bombay Marine; she was still listed on the rolls of the Bombay Marine on 1 January 1828.
• HMS Aurora, several Royal Navy ships
• Russian frigate Aurora, a 1833 Russian Imperial Navy ship famous for participation in Siege of Petropavlovsk
• Russian cruiser Aurora, a 1900 key ship in the October Revolution
• USS Aurora (SP-345), a U.S. Navy tug and minesweeper

Other

• R/V Aurora Danish research ship owned by Aarhus University.