A number of sailing ships have been named ''Frances'': * (or ''Francis'') was built in India or the East Indies circa 1795, possibly under another name, and entered British records in 1803. Between 1803 and 1807 she made three voyages as a

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in the

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in enslaved persons. After the end of British participation in the slave trade in 1807, ''Frances'' started trading with Spain and the West Indies. She was wrecked in January 1809. * ''Frances'', a 368-ton (bm) whaler built in 1824. * ''Frances'', a schooner wrecked in 1837. * , a cutter built in 1839, that was wrecked in 1840 upon Neptune Island,

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. * ''Frances'', a 332-ton sailing ship, that transported passengers from

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in 1841. * , a sailing ship that carried one convict to

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from

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in 1859.

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