Numerous vessels have borne the name ''Active '': * was almost rebuilt in 1785. The next year her trade was given as London-Jamaica. She transported

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s to Australia in 1791. She returned home via

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, carrying a cargo for the British

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(EIC). A French privateer captured her in May 1793 as she was returning to Britain. * was built in Chester in 1781. Initially, she traded with the Baltic and North America. From 1798 she made four complete voyages as a

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in the

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in enslaved persons. A privateer captured her in September 1805 during her fifth slave voyage, after she had embarked her slaves, and took her into the River Plate. * was launched at Bermuda. She transferred to Liverpool circa 1798 and then spent a few years as a

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. Between 1802 and 1803 she made one voyage as a

. She was captured off West Africa around late 1804 before she could start gathering slaves on her second voyage. * was a

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launched in New Brunswick in 1789, possibly under another name. From 1793 she traded as a

, sailing between Bristol and Jamaica until early in 1795 a French privateer captured and sank her. * was built in Bristol in 1799. She made one voyage as a

in the

in enslaved persons, and then two voyages trading between Bristol and Africa. A French privateer captured her but a Guernsey privateer recaptured her. She then became a

. On 16 and 17 July 1808 she repelled a Spanish and a French privateer in two separate single-ship actions. In 1809 she underwent a maritime mishap. She was last listed in 1819. * was a French ship launched in 1793. She came into British hands circa 1799 as a prize. Peter Everitt Mestaer purchased her and named her ''Active''. She made one voyage to India for the British

, which held a monopoly at the time on trade between Great Britain and India or China. From 1802 she was a London-based merchantman, trading first with Hamburg and then more generally. She was last listed in 1815. * was a French ship that came into British hands in 1800 as a prize. William Bennett purchased her and named her ''Active''. He employed her as a

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and she was lost in January 1803 at the start of her second whaling voyage. * was the French ship ''Alsace'' that the

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captured in 1803. William Bennett purchased her and named her ''Active'', in place of the previous ''Active'' lost in January 1803. She then made one whaling voyage for him. Bennett sold her to Robins & Co., and she sailed between London and Buenos Aires. She then sailed on a second sealing voyage. She was lost in 1810 at Tasmania. * was a

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that was wrecked at the entrance of the Hunter River in

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on 18 February 1852. * was a ketch that was wrecked on 19 January 1898 on the Oyster Bank at the entrance of

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Harbour,

, Australia. The wreck has not been located. * ''Active'' (sternwheeler), a steamboat that operated on the Willamette River, in Oregon, US, from 1865 to 1872 * – a steam-powered whaling ship in the Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892–1893)

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