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Ganges is a river in India.
Ganges may also refer to:
Places
- Ganges, Hérault, a commune in the Hérault département in France
- Ganges, British Columbia, a town on Saltspring Island in the province of British Columbia in Canada
- Ganges Township, Michigan, USA
- Ganges Bank, a wholly submerged atoll structure in Indian Ocean southwest of the Chagos Archipelago
- Ganges Chasma, a deep canyon at the eastern end of the vast Valles Marineris system on Mars
- River Ganges is another name for Ping Yuen River in Hong Kong
Ships
East India Company ships
- Ganges (1794 ship), not an East Indiaman, but did make two voyages under contract to the EIC, (one 1796 and the other in 1801, and one voyage transporting convicts to Australia in 1797
- Ganges (1797 ship), an East Indiaman that participated in the Battle of Pulo Aura and that was wrecked in 1807
- Ganges (HEIC Brig), an armed brig that also participated in the Battle of Pulo Aura
Nourse Line ships
- Ganges (1861), the first Nourse Line ship (1861–1881) to bear the name
- Ganges (1882), the second Nourse Line ship (1882–1917) to bear the name
- SS Ganges, the third Nourse Line ship to be named Ganges
DDG Hansa ships
- SS Ganges (1947), in service 1954-59
Warships
- Ganges class ship of the line, a class of six 74-gun Third Rates in the British Royal Navy
- HMS Ganges (1782), a 74-gun Third Rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken up in 1816
- HMS Ganges (1821), an 84-gun Second Rate launched in 1821 and finally broken up in 1930, notable for being the last sailing ship of the Navy to serve as a flagship
- USS Ganges (1794), a merchant vessel that the US converted to a man-of-war in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France
Other ships
- Ganges (whaler), a Nantucket whaling ship operating in the Pacific in the nineteenth century
- Ganges (clipper), 1854 clipper ship built in East Boston
- HMS Ganges (shore establishment) training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy, 1865–1976
- USS Ganges (NCC-72454), a runabout vessel in the Star Trek series Deep Space 9
Other
- Ganges (comics), a comic book by Kevin Huizenga published by Fantagraphics Books, starring the titular character Glenn Ganges
- Ganges (BBC TV series), a 2007 BBC nature documentary TV series