Otter (ship)

Several ships have been named Otter for the marine mammal otter:

  • Otter (1795 ship) was a maritime fur trading vessel. Between 1795 and 1798 it visited the Pacific. It was most famous for the rescue of Thomas Muir, a famous Scottish political exile.
  • Otter (1797 ship) was launched at Liverpool, initially as a West Indiaman. She made seven voyages as a slave ship and was lost in 1807 on her way back to Britain from her seventh slave voyage.
  • Otter (1807 ship) was launched in America in 1799. She appeared in the Register of Shipping in 1809, after she had already made the first of three voyages as a whaler. She then started trading with the Mediterranean where the French captured her in 1813.

See also
  • HMS Otter, one of several ships of the British Royal Navy
    • HMQS Otter, a patrol and examination vessel of the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, and later the Royal Australian Navy
  • USS Otter (DE-210), a destroyer escort of the United States Navy
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