List of ships named Ottawa
Ottawa is a common name or part of the name of ships. The city of Ottawa or the river of the same name in Canada or the Ottawa counties in the United States were the inspiration for the name. These geographical objects were again after the American Tribe of Odawa named.
Ship list
designation | Ship type | Class / type | Construction year | Shipyard | Owner | period of service | Whereabouts | image |
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Ottawa | Gunboat | Unadilla class | 1861 | Westervelt & Company , New York | United States Navy | 1861 to 1865 | Sold in 1865 | |
Ottawa | Tanker | 1888 | Armstrong, Mitchell & Company , Elswick , United Kingdom | Anglo-American Oil Company | 1901 to 1921 | Lost in the North Atlantic around February 6, 1921; Cause of loss unclear; Ship is considered lost | ||
Ottawa | destroyer | C class | 1931 | Portsmouth | Royal Canadian Navy | 1938 to 1942 | Sunk on September 13, 1942 | |
Ottawa | destroyer | G class | 1935 | Vickers-Armstrong , Barrow-in-Furness | Royal Canadian Navy | 1943 to 1945 | Wrecked in 1946 | |
Ottawa | Cargo ship | Tolland class ( C2 ship ) | 1944 | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company , Wilmington | United States Navy | 1945 to 1947 | Sold in 1947, stranded in 1951 | |
Ottawa | destroyer | St. Laurent class | 1953 | Canadian Vickers , Montreal | Royal Canadian Navy | 1956 to 1992 | Wrecked in 1994 | |
OttawaReceipt ? | Tanker | 1964 | 1964 to 1978 | |||||
Ottawa | frigate | Halifax class | 1996 | Saint John Shipbuilding , Saint John | Royal Canadian Navy | since 1996 | ||
Hanjin OttawaReceipt ? | Container Ship | 2000 | Hanjin Shipping |
See also
Web links
Commons : Ships named Ottawa - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Ottawa - explanations of meanings, origins of words, synonyms, translations
Footnotes
- ^ History.navy.mil: USN Ships - USS Ottawa (1861–1865). Retrieved October 24, 2012 .
- ↑ navsource.org: Attack Cargo Ship AKA-101 Ottawa. Retrieved October 24, 2012 .
- ↑ stokers.ca: The Steamers Where did they end up.Retrieved October 24, 2012 .