Britannia (ship)

Britannia may refer to a number of sailing ships:

• Britannia, a 770-ton (Builder's Old Measurement, bm) merchantman launched at Bombay in 1772 that made 13 voyages for the British East India Company before wrecking off Brazil in 1807.
• Britannia (1774 ship), a 500-ton (bm) merchantman built in 1774 that made five voyages for the British East India Company, on one of which she transported convicts to Australia in a voyage noted for the death toll due to the captain's brutality
• Britannia (1783 whaler), a 301-ton (bm) whaler built in 1783 and wrecked in 1806 off the coast of Australia
• Britannia, a 384-ton (bm) merchantman that made two voyages for the British East India Company before a French privateer captured her in 1798 and HMS Endymion recaptured her shortly thereafter. She then became a West Indiaman; last listed 1804.
• Britannia, a 1,273-ton (bm) merchantman wrecked off Goodwin Sands in 1809.
• Britannia (1829), a 411-ton (bm) ship-rigged merchantman.
• Britannia, a 270-ton (bm) brig that sank off Australia in 1839.
• RMS Britannia (1840), a pioneering transatlantic paddle steamer, the first in a class of Cunard Lines ships.
• MV Britannia (1983), a tourboat based in Coal Harbour, Vancouver

See also

• Britannia (disambiguation)
• Britannia-class steamship, wooden paddlers of Cunard Lines carrying transatlantic passengers and mail, named after the first such ship (1840)
• Britannia Seaways (formerly Tor Britannia), a ro-ro cargo ship of 2000 operated by DFDS Seaways
• HMS Britannia (disambiguation), multiple Royal Navy warships
• HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht), a British Royal Racing Yacht 1893–1936
• HMY Britannia, a British Royal Yacht 1954–97
• K1 Britannia, a 1994 replica of the 1893 royal racing yacht HMY Britannia
• MV Britannia (2015), a cruise liner built for P&O Cruises
• RMS Britannia, an ocean liner of British Cunard Steamship Lines
• SS Britannia (disambiguation), multiple steamships