Numerous vessels have borne the name Lusitania, named after Lusitania, an ancient Roman province corresponding to most of modern Portugal. The most famous was:
- (launched 1906), a British ocean liner operated by the Cunard Steamship Company, that a German U-boat sank in 1915 during World War I with the loss of 1,199 lives.
Other vessels include:
- that a French frigate captured in 1813 and released, and that between 1826 and 1830 made a whaling voyage to Timor and the waters around Papua New Guinea.
- was a steamship built by John Laird at Birkenhead and launched in August 1853.
- was an Orient Steam Navigation Company ocean liner wrecked off Nova Scotia in 1901
- , a Portuguese liner wrecked on Bellows Rock, Cape Point on 18 April 1911
- HMS Lusitania, the badly damaged sloop , was a base ship at Horta, Azores from 1943 to 1945
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