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Several ships have been named Preston:Preston was launched at Liverpool in 1769 under another name. As Tom she made one voyage in 1779 as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She became Preston in 1780, and then under the command of Captain William Brighouse she made five voyages as a slave ship. In 1789 Preston became Apollo.
Preston was an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1805 and 1819. In 1810 and 1811 she participated as a transport in two British military campaigns. She was sold for breaking up in 1812 but instead became a transport and a West Indiaman. She disappeared after a gale in August 1815.
Preston was a Dano-Norwegian vessel that the British captured c.1809. As a British merchantman she initially traded with the Iberian peninsula. An American vessel captured and released her in 1812 and she foundered later that year.
W. T. Preston was a sternwheeler that operated from 1929 to 1981 as a snagboat on rivers in Puget Sound.
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