Fame (ship)

Numerous vessels have borne the name Fame:

Fame (1779 ship) was built at Bristol as a West Indiaman. Between 1797 and 1799 she made two voyages to India for the British East India Company (EIC). She then made two voyages to Africa as a slave ship. On her return from Africa she resumed her trading with Jamaica. She is last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1807.
Fame (1801 ship) was launched at Bristol and made two voyages for the EIC. On her third voyage a French frigate captured her. She apparently returned to British hands and was last listed in 1811.
Fame, of 500 tons (bm), was built by Matthew Smith at Calcutta in 1803; on 27 July 1807 she was lost on the Eastern Sea Reef.
Fame (1812 ship) was built at Quebec and was lost in 1817 after having transported convicts to New South Wales.
Fame, of 629 tons (bm), was built by J.S. Scott at Fort Gloster in 1816. On 14 June 1822 she wrecked at Sea Point, Table Bay, on passage from Calcutta and Madras for London. Four passengers, four seamen, and some invalided soldiers drowned.
Fame, of 377 tons, was built in India and came to Britain in 1817. With Scoresby (Jnr) as master and Scoresby (Sr) as owner, between 1818 and 1822 she made some six whaling voyages from Whitby, killing more than 35 whales, before a fire at Stromness destroyed her in 1823.
Fame (1818 ship) was built at Northfleet in 1818. She made one voyage under charter to the EIC; a fire destroyed her in 1824 during her second voyage for the EIC.

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