Archimedes (ship)

Several ships have been named Archimedes for Archimedes:

Archimedes (1797) was a sailing ship launched at Sunderland. She traded between England and the Baltic until the British government chartered her as a transport c. 1809. She was lost in December 1811 while coming back from the Baltic.
SS Archimedes was a steamship built in Britain in 1839, and the world's first steamship to be driven by a screw propeller.
SS Ellan Vannin (1854) was a steamship built in Britain in 1854. Sold to the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1858, who renamed her Archimedes.
SS Archimedes (1859), of 1,086 GRT, was built by Palmer Bros.& Co., Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1867 and 1868 she laid telegraph cables between Denmark and Norway and Denmark and England.
Archimedes (1911 ship), of 6,869 GRT was built for the Den Line, who gave her the name Den of Airlie. The next year the Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation purchased her and named her Archimedes. The Admiralty requisitioned her during WWI and she served as a supply ship from 1914-1919. In 1932 Ben Line Steamers purchased her and renamed her Benmacdhui. She hit a mine in 1941 and sank of Spurn Head.

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