''Defence'' as a ship name may refer to: * was launched at Deptford. She made three voyages to India, the Red Sea, and China for the British

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Sout ...

(EIC) between 1736 and 1743 before she was sold out of the EIC's service * , a ship of the

Connecticut State Navy The Connecticut State Navy was the colonial (and later, state) navy of Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War. Established in 1775, all of its ships were destroyed or captured by 1779. In the remaining years of the war a few smaller sh ...

, sunk in March 1779 after striking a reef in the Thames River * , a privateer sunk in Maine in 1779 in the final stages of the Penobscot Expedition * , a privateer operated by the same syndicate that built the 1779 ship * launched at Shields. She spent much of her career as a London-based transport. In the 1820s she sailed between Scotland and North America, particularly to Canada. She was wrecked in March 1832.

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