Constantia (ship)

Several vessels have been named Constantia. The list below is in chronological order by year of launch.

• {{ship||Constantia|1782 ship}} was launched at Delft for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She made several voyages between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies before the British Royal Navy captured her in 1795 when the British occupied Malacca.
• {{ship||Constantia|1816 ship}}, was launched at Swansea in 1816. She sailed as a coaster, and across the Atlantic, making at least two voyages bringing immigrants to Canada. In April 1832, she was the first of four ships that arrived at Quebec within a month with passengers having died of cholera. She and the vessels that followed her introduced the 1826–1837 cholera pandemic to North America as it spread from Quebec to the rest of Canada and down to the United States. She was last listed in 1848.
• Constantia (1822 ship), of 221{{small|{{frac|53|94}}}},{{sfnp|Farr|1950|p=95}} or 239[http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/ship-registration-index-1787-1966/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=13098&DotsIdNumber= Library and Archives Canada Item: 13098: CONSTANTIA.] tons (bm), was built by Campbell and Shepphard in Wolfe's Cove.{{sfnp|Marcil|1995|p=370}}{{efn|Charles Campbell and his brother-in-law William Shepphard maintained a lumber and shipyard at Wolfe's Cove from 1819 to 1830.{{sfnp|Marcil|1995|p=40}}}} She sailed from Quebec, arrived at Bristol in mid-November 1822, and was sold there.{{sfnp|Farr|1950|p=95}}{{cite news |title=Ship-News |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000034/18221118/008/0003 |access-date=2 February 2023 |work=Bristol Mercury |issue=1704, Vol XXXIII |date=18 November 1822 |page=3|via=British Newspaper Archive}} {{cite news |title=First Spring Vessel for Quebec |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000196/18230120/054/0002 |access-date=2 February 2023 |work=Aris's Birmingham Gazette |issue=4235, Vol LXXXII |date=20 January 1823 |page=2|via=British Newspaper Archive}} Constantia sailed from Bristol in early March 1823.{{cite news |title=Ship News |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000034/18230310/008/0003 |access-date=2 February 2023 |work=Bristol Mercury |date=10 March 1823 |page=3|via=British Newspaper Archive}} On 13 May,{{efn|Farr has 10 May.{{sfnp|Farr|1950|p=95}}}} she was wrecked in Gabaron Bay, Cape Breton Island.{{cite news |title=The Marine List |work=Lloyd's List |issue=5816 |date=1 July 1823 |hdl=2027/uc1.c2735033?urlappend=%3Bseq=216}}{{cite news |title=Port de Quebec - Arrivages |url=https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3453750 |access-date=2 February 2023 |work=Le Canadien |issue=22, Vol.4 |date=18 June 1823 |pages=175-176 |language=fr}}{{cite web |title=Ship Arrivals at the Port of Quebec, 1823 (May 09 - June 22) |url=https://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/1823a.shtm |website=The Ships List |access-date=23 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123221255/https://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/1823a.shtml |archive-date=23 January 2023}}{{cite journal |last1=Rawlyk |first1=George A. |title=New England Origins of the Louisbourg Expedition of 1745 |journal=Dalhousie Review |date=1964–1965|volume=44 |issue=4 |page=481 |url=https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/58972/dalrev_vol44_iss4_pp469_493.pdf |access-date=2 February 2023}} The crew and all eight passengers were saved and reached shore. The point where the passengers and crew landed was some {{convert|40|mi|km}} from Sydney, Nova Scotia. Local vessels took them there where they were well looked after. Six passengers eventually reached Quebec (one couple stayed at Sydney), on 8 June in the shallop Jane. Much of the cargo was also saved. On 14 and 15 July 1823 two schooners, Margaret and Lively, brought portions to Quebec,{{cite news |title=Port de Quebec - Arrivages |url=https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3453754 |access-date=2 February 2023 |work=Le Canadien |issue=22, Vol.4 |date=16 July 1823 |page=208 |language=fr}} and on 14 October the immigrant brig {{ship||Emperor Alexander|1814 Sunderland ship|2}}, Watt, master, arrived from the wreck with the remainder of Constantia{{'}}s stores and cargo.{{cite web |title=Ship Arrivals at the Port of Quebec, 1823 (August 27 - November 26) |url=https://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/1823c.shtml |website=The Ships List |access-date=23 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123223047/https://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/1823c.shtml |archive-date=23 January 2023}}
• {{SS|Constantia|1890}}, of {{GRT|772}} was launched at Björneborg, Finland in 1890. British owners purchased her in 1918 for use as a coaster; {{SMU|UB-21||6}} torpedoed and sank her on 5 May 1918.
• SS Constantia (1945) was a Victory-class cargo ship, one of three that founded the South African Marine Corporation in 1946.