List of ships named Meteor


A number of ships have been named Meteor after a meteor or shooting star, including the following:

Naval and Government vessels

Merchant ships

  • , a British schooner; destroyed in an accidental explosion in February 1834
  • , a British coastal passenger ship, later with the Romanian Government
  • , a whaleback freighter on the Great Lakes, now a museum ship in Superior, Wisconsin
  • , an ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line, and later with Bergen Line; sunk by aircraft 9 March 1945
  • One of several Type C2 ships built for the United States Maritime Commission:
  • *, built by Tampa Shipbuilding; transferred to the United States Navy as Arcturus-class attack cargo ship USS Electra ; scrapped in 1974
  • *, built by Moore Dry Dock; sold for commercial use under the name American Miller in 1948; scrapped in 1970
  • , a cruise ship of Bergen Line, then later with Epirotiki Line as Neptune; scrapped in 2002
  • , a Soviet seagoing passenger hydrofoil design; over 400 built from 1959 to 2006

Yachts