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Regulus (ship)

Several ships have been named Regulus for the star Regulus:

  • was built in Spain. The British captured her in 1797. She spent her career trading to the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa. She was briefly a privateer. She was broken up in 1806.
  • Regulus was a French privateer that captured in December 1804; she became , there being an already in service.
  • , of 378 tons (bm), was launched at Whitby. In 1825 she carried assisted immigrants from Cork to Quebec under a scheme promoted by Peter Robinson. She was last listed in 1855.
  • was a steamship registered in St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland. She was lost, with all hands, on 23 October 1910 in Leeward Cove, south of Motion Head, Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove, Newfoundland during a southeast gale.
  • , of , was launched by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Newcastle upon Tyne. In September 1917 she rescued the crew of after Port Kembla struck a mine. Regulus was broken up in 1936.

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