Antelope (ship)

Numerous ships have sailed under the name Antelope. Notable ones include:

  • Antelope (1780 packet ship), a packet ship launched in 1780, most famous for a desperate single-ship action in 1793 in which she captured a much larger French privateer
  • Antelope (1781 EIC packet ship), a packet ship built for the British East India Company (EIC) in 1781 that made one voyage that ended when she was wrecked in 1783 off Ulong, and that resulted in the first sustained European contact with Palau
  • Antelope, of 215 tons (bm), was built of teak at Batavia in 1792 and captured in 1797.[1] She sailed from London on 2 May 1798 to gather slaves from Africa. She embarked slaves at Anomabu, but her subsequent fate is currently unknown.[2]
  • Antelope, a brig of 199 tons (bm), and 12-14 guns, was launched at Bombay Dockyard in 1793 for the Bombay Marine, the EIC's naval arm. She was still after 1830.
  • Antelope was a brig of 188 tons (bm), launched in America in 1795. In the 1800s she traded between Cowes and Dunkirk.[3] Lloyd's List reported on 28 December 1804 that Antelope, Curran, master, from Virginia to Dunkirk, was upset at Calais. Her crew was saved and the cargo was expected to be saved.[4] The registers carried stale information for some years thereafter.
  • Antelope (slave ship), launched in 1802, became a slave ship whose capture in 1820 gave rise to a notable legal case
  • Antelope (1807 ship) was a brig built at Nantes in 1805 that the British captured c.1807 and that new owners renamed. She traded for three or four years until in 1811 the British East India Company chartered her to carry despatches to India. She then remained there.
  • Antelope of Boston was a clipper ship launched in 1851 and wrecked in 1858
  • Antelope (steamboat) was a steamboat that operated on the southern Oregon coast from 1886 to about 1908
  • SS Empire Antelope was built as Ophis in 1919, renamed Empire Antelope in 1941, and sunk in November 1942

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