Olive Branch (ship)

Several vessels have been named Olive Branch, for the olive branch:

• Olive Branch (1775 ship) was launched in Philadelphia. From at least 1776 on she sailed as a West Indiaman from Great Britain. In 1791 she sailed as a whaler to the British Southern Whale Fishery, but was lost in August, early in the outbound leg of her voyage.
• Olive Branch (1777 ship) was launched at Whitby. She spent much of her career as a coaster out of Hull, and sailing between Hull and the Baltic. In March 1807 Olive Branch, Wilson, master, sailed from Hull bound for the Greenland Whale Fishery. She disappeared on the outbound leg after leaving Shetland.[1]
• Olive Branch (1788 ship) was launched in 1777 in America, possibly under a different name. In 1788–1789 she made one voyage as a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fishery. On her return she traded with Gibraltar and the Mediterranean. She was last listed in 1793.
• Olive Branch (1818 ship) was launched at Cowes. She was one of several vessels that a gale wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope (the Cape), on 21 July 1822.

See also

• HMS Olive Branch – one of four or five fire ships of the British Royal Navy

Citations

1. "Marine Intelligence". Hull Packet (Hull, England), 25 August 1807 Issue 1076.