Archimedes (ship)

Several ships have been named Archimedes for Archimedes:

• Archimedes (1797) was launched at Sunderland. She traded between England and the Baltic until the British government chartered her as a transport c.1809. She was lost in December 1811 while coming back from the Baltic.
• SS Archimedes was a steamship built in Britain in 1839. She is notable for being the world's first steamship to be driven by a screw propeller. She had considerable influence on ship development, encouraging the adoption of screw propulsion by the Royal Navy, in addition to her influence on commercial vessels.
• SS Archimedes (1859), of 1,086 GRT, was built by Palmer Bros.& CO., Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1867 and 1868 she laid telegraph cables between Denmark and Norway and Denmark and England.
• Archimedes (1911 ship), of 6,869 GRT was built for the Den Line, who gave her the name Den of Airlie. The next year the Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation purchased her and named her Archimedes. The Admiralty requisitioned her during WWI and she served as a supply ship from 1914-1919. In 1932 Ben Line Steamers purchased her and renamed her Benmacdhui. She hit a mine in 1941 and sank of Spurn Head.