title: List of ships named Avalon
text: # List of ships named Avalon
  
  A number of ships have been named Avalon, after Avalon, the mythical Arthurian island or Avalon, California
  
  ## Merchant ships
  
  * Avalon (1864), a Great Eastern Railway passenger ferry steamer, sold as a blockade runner
  * Avalon (1865), a Great Eastern Railway passenger-cargo ferry steamer, replaced the above
  * Avalon (1888), a cargo ship, built by Swan Hunter, Wallsend for C T Bowring
  * Avalon (1888), a sidewheel passenger ship, built by Harlan and Hollingsworth
  * Avalon (1891), a passenger vessel, operating Catalina–Los Angeles 1920–1951
  * Avalon (1945), a cargo ship 1974–1981, built as Empire Wallace
  * Avalon (1963), a passenger-roro ferry built by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow for British Railways
  * Avalon (1963), a passenger-cargo ship previously known as RMS St Helena
  
  ## Naval ships
  
  ### United States Navy
  
  * USS Avalon (1908), a motorboat acquired for use as a patrol boat in 1917 and returned to her owner in 1918 perhaps without having been commissioned
  * USS Blue Ridge (ID-2432), 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
  * HMCS Avalon II, an accommodation vessel from 1942 to 1947, previously passenger vessel Georgian ex-Cape Eternity ex-Rochester on the Great Lakes and St Lawrence
  * HMCS Avalon III, a harbour vessel, later HC 31
  
  ### Royal Navy
  
  * HMT Avalon, former Norwegian trawler Nordhav I, hired in 1940, and renamed Adonis in 1941. Built as Océan in 1915
  