Perseverance (ship)

British Age of Sail merchant hulls

• was launched in Virginia. She made one voyage as a whaler, leaving England in February 1820 for Peru. The pirate Vicente Benavides captured her off Santa Maria island in March 1821, and later burnt her in the Tubul River. More than four of her crew were murdered.
• was built in 1797 at Stettin or Sweden and came into British hands in 1799. She made one voyage under charter to the British East India Company, and was lost in July 1803.
• was launched in 1801 as an East Indiaman. She made seven voyages for the EIC before she was sold in 1819 for breaking up.
• was launched on the Thames in 1801 and made 16 whaling voyages to the coast of Africa, South East Asian waters, and the Pacific before she was broken up in 1841.

  Other ships

• , a logistics and landing ship operated by the Republic of Singapore Navy
• , a privateer given a letter of marque by the Colonial Rebellion during the American Revolutionary War, that was involved in the court case Jennings v. The Perseverance
• , a steam-powered-oar propelled steam boat built by John Fitch
• , a 136-ton Australian colonial brig owned by Robert Campbell, wrecked in 1828
• , a Wey barge preserved as a museum ship

  Shipnames

• , of the British Royal Navy, the name of several ships
• Perseverance, of the British Admiralty, the name of several tugs, see
• , of the Republic of Singapore

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