1761 ships

1761 Sandwich-class second-rate ship of the line

1761 Essex-class third-rate ship of the line

1761 Arrogant-class third-rate ship of the line

Meermin () was a of the Dutch East India Company. She was laid down in 1759 and fitted out as a slave ship before her maiden voyage in 1761, and her career was cut short by a mutiny of her cargo of Malagasy people. They had been sold to Dutch East India Company officials on Madagascar, to be used as company slaves in its Cape Colony in southern Africa. Half her crew and almost 30 Malagasy lost their lives in the mutiny; the mutineers deliberately allowed the ship to drift aground off Struisbaai, now in South Africa, in March 1766, and she broke up in situ. As of 2013, archaeologists are s

1761 Arrogant-class third-rate ship of the line

1761 Sandwich-class second-rate ship of the line