Ajax (ship)
List of ships with the same or similar names / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Several ships have been named Ajax for Ajax the Great, a figure from Greek mythology:
- Ajax (1759 EIC ship), of 655 tons (bm), was built by Perry, Blackwall. She sailed for the British East India Company until a French warship captured her in 1761. The French East India Company purchased her and she sailed for them until 1776.
- Ajax (1811 ship) was launched at South Shields. She was condemned at Calcutta in 1822.
- Ajax (1835 ship), of 30337⁄94 tons (bm), was built by Hillhouse, Hill and Co., of Bristol. She was wrecked at Cindadella, Minorca, on 3 December 1862.
- Ajax (1864 ship) - a screw steamer that provided logistical support to the Union Army during the Civil War, and commercial passenger and freight service on the Pacific Coast afterward.