Ron's Liverpool

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Last Updated : 15 Oct 2005

The following is a selection of some of the many ships that were connected with Liverpool. There are pictures available for some of the ships and where this is the case you can click on the ship name to view it.

All information provided here is believed to be correct. However, no responsibility can be taken by the author for the consequence of any error in information on this web site. The numbers in brackets after the notes indicate the book reference.

Name	Company	Year	Event [Reference Source]
Abbey		1874	A steamer on the Mersey [08].
Abbey Home		1882	Used on the Liverpool to Cape Town route [Records of Joseph Price].
Abbeyland		1847	Bark used on the Liverpool to Port of Quebec route.
Abbots Reading		1838	Bark built in Liverpool.
Abby Pratt		1849	Used on the Liverpool to New Orleans route.
Abyssinia	Cunard Line	1870	Maiden voyage Liverpool to New York.
Aberdeen		1848	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Achilles		1863	Arrived in Liverpool with a gift of flour from Philadelphia for Lancashire distress.
Aconcagua		1876	[Records of Joseph Price].
Adalia	Liverpool & Charleston Steamship Line	1869	Used on the Liverpool to Charleston, South Carolina route.
Adamant			Royal Navy frigate built in Liverpool [11].
Adriatic	White Star	1886	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Advancement		1870	Used on the San Francisco to Liverpool route [Records of Joseph Price].
Adventure		1833	Used on the Liverpool to Hobart Town,Australia route.
Aetna		1817	Steam ship built by Dawson of Liverpool [08].
Afric	White Star	1899	Maiden voyage Liverpool to New York.
Africa		1858	Royal Mail steamship sailing from Liverpool to Jersey City.
Agenora		1848	Sailed from Liverpool to New York.
Agnes		1771	Engaged in the African slave trade sailing from Liverpool [08].
Ajax		1834	Packet ship sailing from New York to Liverpool[Montreal Gazette].
Akbar		1847	Used on the Liverpool to Boston route [Web 06].
Alabama		1862	Built on Merseyside by John Laird for the Confederate side of the American civil war she was launched 28^th July 1862. During a 2 year period she sank or captured 68 Yankee ships before being sunk herself by Federal cruiser "Keersage". See a Sea Shanty about Alabama.
Alaska	Guion Line	1881	Maiden voyage Liverpool to New York. American ship and British built she held the Blue Ribband.
Albert		1847	Bark used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Albert Gallatin		1852	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Albion	Black Ball Line	1822	Sunk near Kinsale, Ireland en route for Liverpool from New York [16].
Albion		1855	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Alenburgh		1880	Used on the San Francisco to Liverpool route [Records of Joseph Price].
Aleppo	Cunard Line	1865	Used on the Liverpool to Halifax and New York route.
Alesia	Fabre Line	1882	Built in Liverpool for the French line.
Alesto		1841	Used on the Liverpool to New Orleans route.
Alex Marshall		1863	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Alexander		1842	Used on the Liverpool to Baltimore route.
Alexandria	Henderson Brothers	1871	Used on the Liverpool to St.John, New Brunswick route.
Algeria	Cunard Line	1870	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Algeria	E L Thomas	1887	Originaly built as Cyrenian in 1874 and sold to E L Thomas of Liverpool.
Algeria	Anchor Line	1891	Maiden voyage Glasgow to Liverpool and Calcutta.
Alice (SS)		1866	Built in 1865 by Backhouse & Dixon in Middlesborough, she sailed on the Liverpool to New Orleans route.
Aliquis		1855	Used on the Liverpool to Adelaide route.
Allerton	Leyland		Sister ship to "Wavertree".
Alline		1877	[Records of Joseph Price].
Alsatia	Anchor Line	1882	Used on the Liverpool to Bombay route.
Alsatian	Allan Line	1913	Maiden voyage was Liverpool to St.John, New Brunswick.
Amazon		1846	Used on the Liverpool to Boston route.
America	Cunard	1863	Steamship chartered by Allan Line for Liverpool to Quebec crossings. Also used on Liverpool to Portland, Maine route.
American Packer		1958	Left Liverpool’s Gladstone Dock for Boston with Liverpool’s Last Tramcar.
American Union		1851	Used on the Liverpool to New York and New Orleans routes.
Amity	Black Ball	1824	Packet ship wrecked on a New Jersey beach 37 days out of Liverpool.
Amsterdam	American Line	1879	Maiden voyage Liverpool to Philadelphia.
Andania	Cunard White Star	1922	Home port was Liverpool.
Andes	Cunard	1852	First Cunarder to be driven by propeller and be iron built.
Andrew Foster		1852	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Andromache		1771	Engaged in the African slave trade sailing from Liverpool [08].
Anglesea		1863	Steamship sailing from Liverpool to Quebec.
Anglia	Anchor Line	1878	Used on the Liverpool to Bombay route.
Anglo-American		1848	Used on the Liverpool to Boston route.
Anglo Saxon	Allan Line	1856	Maiden voyage Liverpool to Quebec. The steamship also sailed from Liverpool to Portland, Maine.
Angola			Ship which imported slaves for sale in Liverpool [11] .
Anidas		1851	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Ann		1771	Engaged in the African slave trade sailing from Liverpool [08].
Ann & Eliza		1679	Used on the Liverpool to Virginia route.
Ann & Sarah		1698	Used on the Liverpool to Virginia route.
Ann Galkey		1746	Liverpool ship whose captain Nehemiah Holland sucessfully fought off a French privateer [11].
Anna Robertson		1846	Used from Liverpool on the voyages of Joseph Price [Records of Joseph Price].
Anne		1851	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Anne Worell		1870	Used on the Liverpool to Africa route [Records of Joseph Price].
Annie Jane		1853	Left Liverpool September 1853 and lost in bad weather.
Antarctic		1851	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Antarctica		1867	Used on the Liverpool to New Orleans route.
Antelope		1666	Sponsored by wealthy Liverpool sugar dealer Daniel Danvers she made a transatlantic journey to Barbados to collect sugar cane and started a new area of trade for Liverpool.
Apollo		1771	Engaged in the African slave trade sailing from Liverpool [08].
Aquitania	Cunard	1919	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Arabian		1846	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Arabic	White Star Line	1881	Maiden voyage was Liverpool to New York.
Arawa		1900	Used on the Liverpool to Halifax and St.John, New Brunswick route.
Arctic	Collins Line	1850	The Liverpool was ship recorded in a painting by Robert Salomon. The steamers maiden voyage was from New York to Liverpool [16].
Argo	Black Star	1841	Sailing ship of 967 tons built in New York. Used on the Liverpool to New Orleans route. Also used by Caleb Grimshaw and Co on the Liverpool to Melbourne route in 1852.
Argonaut			Privateer ship sailing from Liverpool [11].
Argyle		1841	Used on the Melbourne to Liverpool route.
Arizona (SS)	Guion Line	1880	Used on the Liverpool to New York route [Web 06].
Arkadia	Arcadian Steamship Co	1968	Used on the Cherbourg to Liverpool route.
Arkwright		1866	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Arlington (SS)		1848	Used on the Liverpool to New York route [Web 06].
Armenian (SS)		1890s	Used on the Liverpool to Boston route.
Ashburton		1846	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Ashland		1849	Used on the Liverpool to New Orleans route.
Asia	Cunard Line	1850	Used on the Liverpool to Halifax and New York routes.
Assyria		1882	Used on the Liverpool to Calcutta route.
Assyrian Monarch	Royal Exchange Shipping Company	1889	Used on the Liverpool to Baltimore route.
Aston		1771	Engaged in the African slave trade sailing from Liverpool [08].
Astria		1852	Used on the Liverpool to New York route [Web 06].
Atalanta	Hughes Line	1870	Used on the Liverpool to Suez-Bombay route.
Athenia	Donaldson Line	1922	Maiden voyage was Glasgow to Liverpool.
Atlantian	T&J Harrison	1933	Originally built 1928 and sold to T&J Harrison of Liverpool.
Atlantic	Collins Line	1842	Used by Jenny Lind and her departure from Liverpool is captured in an oil painting by Samual Walters.
Atlantic	Collins Line	1850	The steamers maiden voyage was New York to Liverpool [16].
Atlantic	White Star	1871	Built at Harland & Wolf in 1871, she was one of five original ships of White Star. Departing Liverpool 20 March 1873 bound for New York, Atlantic ran into rocks off Nova Scotia on 1 April 1873.
Atlas		1847	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Atlas	British & North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co	1873	First voyage Liverpool to Boston.
Atmosphere		1863	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Augustus Wattenbach		1856
Aurania	Cunard Line	1896	Transatlantic liner used by emigrants.
Aureol			Captured on the Mersey in an oil painting.
Aurora		1855	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Austin		1771	Engaged in the African slave trade sailing from Liverpool [08].
Austral	Anchor Line	1884	Chartered for use on the Liverpool to New York route.
Australia		1860	Used on the Liverpool to New York route.
Australia	Anchor Line	1882	Used on the Liverpool to Bombay route.
Austrian	Allan Line	1867	Maiden voyage was Liverpool to Quebec.

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