Alexander (ship)

• , a merchant ship built in Hull and used to transport convicts in the First Fleet to New South Wales in 1788
• , launched at Bristol in 1785 as Alexander. As Alexander, and later renamed Prince, she served as a slave ship.
• , built in France in 1791 under a different name. She was taken as a prize and her new owners renamed her Alexander. She made one voyage for the British East India Company, and then made four voyages as a slave ship between 1798 and 1807.
• , built in Pembroke, Massachusetts, in 1796 and made at least three voyages in the maritime fur trade.
• , a 301-ton merchant vessel launched at Shields; she became a whaler and made one voyage to New Zealand and the South Seas whale fisheries for Hurry & Co.
• , a ship of 600 or 746 tons burthen, launched in 1803 at Bombay and wrecked in 1815.
• Alexander, a ship of 614 tons, launched in 1803 at Liverpool and sold in 1817
• , a ship launched by William Taylor, Bideford, for Buckles & Co. She was sailing from Ceylon and Mauritius to London when on 9 August 1828 she wrecked on Cole House Point.
• , a 227-ton merchant ship built in the United States in 1811, captured as a prize during the War of 1812 and transported convicts to Port Jackson in 1816
• , of 492 tons, launched in 1812 by Michael Smith at Howrah, Calcutta, for his own account. She was lost in the China Sea in 1835.
• , of 229 tons, launched at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Walkinshaw & Co.
• , of 523 tons, launched in 1828 by John Blackett, Millwall Dock, Poplar, London, for his own account.

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