What is the name of the ship in 'The Adventure of the Gloria Scott'?

The ship in “The Adventure of the Gloria Scott” is the Gloria Scott. It is a prison transport vessel carrying convicts from Falmouth toward Australia, and its voyage forms the dark secret at the center of the case.

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s story, James Armitage learns that fellow prisoner Jack Prendergast has organized a mutiny. Violence breaks out, the ship’s gunpowder explodes, and the Gloria Scott is destroyed. Armitage and another prisoner survive by escaping in a small boat before being rescued by the Hotspur.

The story is especially important because it is chronologically the earliest case Holmes mentions in the canon. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in April 1893 and later collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Readers may encounter different names in adaptations: a 1950s television version changed the ship’s name to Gloria North, but Doyle’s original ship is the Gloria Scott.