Ajax (ship)
# Ajax (ship)

Several ships have been named Ajax for Ajax the Great, a figure from Greek mythology:

* Ajax (1759 EIC ship), of 655 tons (bm), was built by Perry, Blackwall. She sailed for the British East India Company until a French warship captured her in 1761. The French East India Company purchased her and she sailed for them until 1776.
* Ajax (1811 ship) was launched at South Shields. She was condemned at Calcutta in 1822.
* Ajax (1835 ship), of 30337⁄94 tons (bm), was built by Hillhouse, Hill and Co., of Bristol. She was wrecked at Cindadella, Minorca, on 3 December 1862.
* Ajax (1864 ship) - a screw steamer that provided logistical support to the Union Army during the Civil War, and commercial passenger and freight service on the Pacific Coast afterward.

## Others

* SS Ajax – One of four steamships
* HMS Ajax – One of eight vessels of the Royal Navy
* USS Ajax – One of four vessels of the United States Navy
* Dutch corvette Ajax (1796) - built by P. Schuijt jr at naval yard at Harlingen and broken up 1824
* French ship Ajax – One of three ships of the French Navy
