Aeneas (troopship)
The Aeneas was a wooden sailing ship named after the Trojan hero of the Iliad.
She was owned by the British government and used to transport troops to garrisons across the British Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. On 23 October 1805 Aeneas was wrecked on the coast of Newfoundland with terrible loss of life.
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