List of ships named Avalon
# List of ships named Avalon

A number of ships have been named Avalon, after Avalon, the mythical Arthurian island or Avalon, California

## Merchant ships

* Avalon (1864), a Great Eastern Railway passenger ferry steamer, sold as a blockade runner
* Avalon (1865), a Great Eastern Railway passenger-cargo ferry steamer, replaced the above
* Avalon (1888), a cargo ship, built by Swan Hunter, Wallsend for C T Bowring
* Avalon (1888), a sidewheel passenger ship, built by Harlan and Hollingsworth
* Avalon (1891), a passenger vessel, operating Catalina–Los Angeles 1920–1951
* Avalon (1945), a cargo ship 1974–1981, built as Empire Wallace
* Avalon (1963), a passenger-roro ferry built by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow for British Railways
* Avalon (1963), a passenger-cargo ship previously known as RMS St Helena

## Naval ships

### United States Navy

* USS Avalon (1908), a motorboat acquired for use as a patrol boat in 1917 and returned to her owner in 1918 perhaps without having been commissioned
* USS Blue Ridge (ID-2432), a steamer in commission from 1918 to 1919, renamed USS Avalon for her last three days under U.S. Navy control
* DSRV-2 Avalon, a deep submergence rescue vehicle launched in 1971 and decommissioned in 2000

### Canadian Navy

* HMCS Avalon was a shore base at St. John's, Newfoundland during World War II
* HMCS Avalon II, an accommodation vessel from 1942 to 1947, previously passenger vessel Georgian ex-Cape Eternity ex-Rochester on the Great Lakes and St Lawrence
* HMCS Avalon III, a harbour vessel, later HC 31

### Royal Navy

* HMT Avalon, former Norwegian trawler Nordhav I, hired in 1940, and renamed Adonis in 1941. Built as Océan in 1915
