Several ships have borne the name ''Amelia'':
* was Admiral Maarten Tromp's flagship during part of the Eighty Years' War.
* was a ship launched in 1787 in France that the British captured. Under her British owners she made one voyage as a
whaler and one voyage as a
slave ship
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. She is last listed in 1806.
* was a ship built in Demaun that the French Navy captured in 1796 as ''Amelia'' was carrying rice to Britain.
*''Amelia'' (1800), of 200 tons (
bm), was a government transport built in Bristol that a French privateer captured in 1800, and that the Guernsey privateer cutter ''Maria'' recaptured and sent into Gibraltar. She was captured a second time and this time her captors took her into Algeciras.
* was built in Massachusetts in 1809 probably under another name. The British captured her in 1813 and she was a British merchantman until she foundered in 1829.
* was a ship that disappeared in 1816 after leaving Sydney for China.
* was a passenger ship built in 1900, and Royal yacht for the Portuguese monarch until 1910.
See also
* was built in France under another name and captured by the British in 1809. Her new owners renamed her and she became a
West Indiaman. She later became a
whaler and was wrecked in 1833 on her fifth whaling voyage.
* - any one of four ships of the
Royal Navy
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, with a fifth planned
* – any one of four vessels
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