Ganges (Age of Sail merchant ship)

During the Age of Sail many merchant ships were named Ganges, after the Ganges river in India.

 , not an East Indiaman, but did make a voyage under contract to the British East India Company (EIC) in 1796, and one voyage transporting convicts to Australia in 1797.
 , a French whaler launched at Philadelphia that after her capture became a British Southern Whale Fishery whaler
  was launched at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She made one voyage for the EIC in 1800–1801 bringing rice from Bengal for the British government. She then became a West Indiaman until the French navy captured her in 1805.
  was launched at Calcutta. In 1807 or 1809 a French privateer captured her. The British Royal Navy recaptured her. She assumed British Registry in 1812, but had traded out of London since late 1810 or early 1811. By 1820 she was trading between London and Bengal. She was last listed in 1846.
 , a Nantucket whaling ship operating in the Pacific in the nineteenth century. She was condemned in 1858.
 Ganges, of 606 tons burthen, was launched at Sulkea, Calcutta on 9 December 1813, and burned at Saugor on 3 September 1815.
 , 1854 clipper ship built in East Boston

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Phipps, John, (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta), (1840) A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time .... (Scott).