Adventure Galley, an English ship captained by William Kidd, the notorious privateer turned pirate
Adventure (1792 ship) was built by the crew of Captain
Robert Gray on his second voyage in the
maritime fur trade to the Northwest Coast of
North America. The 45-ton
sloop was built to allow the trading venture to access smaller inlets the Columbia could not reach. At the end of his second voyage Gray sold the ship to the
Spanish Navy. It was renamed Orcacitas (also spelled Orcasitas or Horcasitas) and served the Naval Department of
San Blas for some years.
Adventure (1799 ship) was a French vessel that the British captured in 1799. New owners immediately sailed her as a
slaver. She then made a voyage as
West Indiaman during which a French privateer captured her, but the British
Royal Navy quickly recaptured her. She then made a second slave trading voyage. Thereafter she became a general trader, trading primarily with the Baltic. She was wrecked in October 1814. Although she was refloated and taken into Copenhagen, she disappeared from subsequent ship arrival and departure data.
Adventure (1802 ship) was a
schooner launched at Liverpool. She made three voyages as a
slave ship before a French privateer captured her in 1806 on her fourth voyage.
Adventure (1804 ship) was a French privateer captured in 1803. She became a
whaler that made two voyages to the Southern Whale Fishery. She was wrecked in April 1808 as she set out on her third.
Adventure (1926 schooner) is a
gaff rigged knockabout
schooner built in
Essex, Massachusetts, and launched in 1926 to work the
Grand Banks fishing grounds near
Gloucester. She is one of only two surviving Grand Banks knockabouts – schooners designed without bowsprits for the safety of her crew. Adventure was declared a
National Historic Landmark in 1994, underwent a substantial restoration in 2012, and sails today in the tourist trade out of Gloucester.
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