A number of ships have been named Avalon, after Avalon, the mythical Arthurian island or Avalon, California
Merchant ships , a Great Eastern Railway passenger ferry steamer, sold as a blockade runner , a Great Eastern Railway passenger-cargo ferry steamer, replaced the above , a cargo ship, built by Swan Hunter, Wallsend for C T Bowring , a sidewheel passenger ship, built by Harlan and Hollingsworth , a passenger vessel, operating Catalina–Los Angeles 1920–1951 , a cargo ship 1974–1981, built as Empire Wallace , a passenger-roro ferry built by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow for British Railways Avalon (1963), a passenger-cargo ship previously known as
Naval ships
United States Navy , a motorboat acquired for use as a patrol boat in 1917 and returned to her owner in 1918 perhaps without having been commissioned , a steamer in commission from 1918 to 1919, renamed USS Avalon for her last three days under U.S. Navy control DSRV-2 Avalon, a deep submergence rescue vehicle launched in 1971 and decommissioned in 2000
Canadian Navy HMCS Avalon was a shore base at St. John's, Newfoundland during World War II , an accommodation vessel from 1942 to 1947, previously passenger vessel Georgian ex-Cape Eternity ex-Rochester on the Great Lakes and St Lawrence , a harbour vessel, later HC 31
Royal Navy , former Norwegian trawler Nordhav I, hired in 1940, and renamed Adonis in 1941. Built as Océan in 1915
See also Avalon (disambiguation)
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