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Several vessels have been named for the Roman deity [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]]:

* {{ship||Mercury|1772 ship}} was launched on the Thames. In 1791 she made the first of two voyages as a [[whaler]] to Delagoa Bay. She was reported in February 1794 to have been lost off Mozambique while on her second voyage to the region.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3049067?urlappend=%3Bseq=247 |title=The Marine List |work=Lloyd's List |issue=2585 |date=11 February 1794 |hdl=2027/uc1.c3049067?urlappend=%3Bseq=247 |accessdate=30 July 2021}}</ref>
* {{ship||Mercury|1786 ship}} apparently was launched in 1786 at Topsham, but her career prior to 1790 is obscure. She initially traded with Virginia and then with the "Straits". In 1794-1795 she made one voyage for the British [[East India Company]] (EIC). Upon her return she became a [[West Indiaman]]. She was lost in 1802.
* {{ship||Mercury|1788 ship}} was launched at Liverpool. She made 10 voyages as a [[slave ship]] before a privateer captured her on her 11th voyage.
* {{ship||Mercury|1793 ship}}
* {{ship||Mercury|1806 ship}} was launched at Calcutta. She may have made one voyage for the EIC in 1806–1807. She was also one of the vessels in [[Stamford Raffles]]'s expedition in 1819 to occupy Singapore. She was sold in 1822.
* {{ship||Mein Schiff Herz}} (formerly '''MV ''Mercury''''', '''''Celebrity Mercury''''' and '''''Mein Schiff 2''''') was [[ship naming and launching|launched]] in 1997.

==See also==
* {{HMS|Mercury}} – any one of 17 vessels or shore establishments of that name
* {{ship|HCS|Mercury|1806}} was a 14-gun [[brig]] launched at [[Bombay Dockyard]] in 1806 for the naval arm of the British [[East India Company]] and lost at sea in 1833.
* {{ship|Russian brig|Mercury}} 
* {{USS|Mercury}} – any one of seven vessels of that name

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