Several ships have been named ''Archimedes'' for

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: * was a sailing ship launched at Sunderland. She traded between England and the Baltic until the British government chartered her as a transport . She was lost in December 1811 while coming back from the Baltic. * was a steamship built in Britain in 1839, and the world's first steamship to be driven by a screw propeller. * was a steamship built in Britain in 1854. Sold to the

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in 1858, who renamed her ''Archimedes''. *, of , was built by Palmer Bros.& Co., Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1867 and 1868 she laid telegraph cables between Denmark and Norway and Denmark and England. *, of was built for the Den Line, who gave her the name ''Den of Airlie''. The next year the Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation purchased her and named her ''Archimedes''. The Admiralty requisitioned her during WWI and she served as a supply ship from 1914-1919. In 1932 Ben Line Steamers purchased her and renamed her ''Benmacdhui''. She hit a mine in 1941 and sank of Spurn Head.

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