Several vessels, mercantile and naval, have been named Borneo for the island of
Borneo:
Mercantile
Borneo (1713 ship), was launched on the Thames and made two voyages (1713–1716, and 1718–1720), for the British
East India Company to Borneo and
Bencoolen before transferring to the West Indies trade.
Borneo, of 350, 382, or 400 tons (
bm), was a country ship, probably launched at Pegu after 1809, that served as a transport for the British invasions of
Mauritius (1810) and
Java (1811). She appeared, with Benjamin Ferguson, master, on a list of vessels registered at Calcutta in January 1811. She was lost at Madagascar in 1814.
Borneo, of 223 tons (bm), left Boston in December 1817 on a
fur hunting voyage. A gale wrecked her on 28 January 1819 at
Cape Muzon, Alaska; crew saved.
Borneo, of 297 tons (bm) was launched at
Salem, Massachusetts, in 1831; her crew abandoned her in the North Atlantic on 1 January 1854.
Naval
HNLMS Borneo, gunboat of the Royal Netherlands Navy, launched 1892
HMT Borneo (FY 1809), was a trawler launched in 1905 for Grant & Robinson, Grimsby, (GY115). The British Royal Navy requisitioned her in November 1914. She struck a
naval mine off
Beachy Head on 18 June 1917 that
SM UC-17 had laid earlier that day. Borneo was lost with 11 of her 14 crew.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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Several vessels, mercantile and naval, have been named Borneo for the island of
Borneo:
Mercantile
Borneo (1713 ship), was launched on the Thames and made two voyages (1713–1716, and 1718–1720), for the British
East India Company to Borneo and
Bencoolen before transferring to the West Indies trade.
Borneo, of 350, 382, or 400 tons (
bm), was a country ship, probably launched at Pegu after 1809, that served as a transport for the British invasions of
Mauritius (1810) and
Java (1811). She appeared, with Benjamin Ferguson, master, on a list of vessels registered at Calcutta in January 1811. She was lost at Madagascar in 1814.
Borneo, of 223 tons (bm), left Boston in December 1817 on a
fur hunting voyage. A gale wrecked her on 28 January 1819 at
Cape Muzon, Alaska; crew saved.
Borneo, of 297 tons (bm) was launched at
Salem, Massachusetts, in 1831; her crew abandoned her in the North Atlantic on 1 January 1854.
Naval
HNLMS Borneo, gunboat of the Royal Netherlands Navy, launched 1892
HMT Borneo (FY 1809), was a trawler launched in 1905 for Grant & Robinson, Grimsby, (GY115). The British Royal Navy requisitioned her in November 1914. She struck a
naval mine off
Beachy Head on 18 June 1917 that
SM UC-17 had laid earlier that day. Borneo was lost with 11 of her 14 crew.
List of ships with the same or similar names
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.