Borneo (ship)

Several vessels, mercantile and naval, have been named Borneo for the island of Borneo:

Mercantile

 * Borneo, was launched on the Thames and made two voyages (1713–1716, and 1718–1720), for the British East India Company to Borneo and Bencoolen before transferring to the West Indies trade.
 * Borneo, of 350, 382, or 400 tons (bm), was a country ship, probably launched at Pegu after 1809, that served as a transport for the British invasions of Mauritius (1810) and Java (1811). She appeared, with Benjamin Ferguson, master, on a list of vessels registered at Calcutta in January 1811. She was lost at Madagascar in 1814.
 * Borneo was a merchant ship built in Borneo that undertook one voyage transporting convicts to Van Diemen's Land in 1828. She was wrecked in 1832 on her first whaling voyage.
 * Borneo, of 223 tons (bm), left Boston in December 1817 on a fur hunting voyage. A gale wrecked her on 28 January 1819 at Cape Muzon, Alaska; crew saved.
 * Borneo, of 297 tons (bm) was launched at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1831; her crew abandoned her in the North Atlantic on 1 January 1854.

Naval

 * HNLMS Borneo, gunboat of the Royal Netherlands Navy, launched 1892
 * HMT Borneo (FY 1809), was a trawler launched in 1905 for Grant & Robinson, Grimsby, (GY115). The British Royal Navy requisitioned her in November 1914. She struck a naval mine off Beachy Head on 18 June 1917 that SMU UC-17 had laid earlier that day. Borneo was lost with 11 of her 14 crew.