Comet (ship)

Many vessels have been named Comet, after the astronomical object comet.

was launched at Rotherhithe. Between 1794 and 1795 she made a voyage for the British East India Company. 1812 and 1815 she was a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. Between 1823 she was a whaler in the British northern whale fishery. She then returned to cargo shipping and was wrecked on 1 December 1843.
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was a clipper ship launched in 1851 that was wrecked in 1865.Comet was a Massachusetts-built American barque that was lost in 1875 without trace while en route from New Zealand to Australia.