In the year 1775, various ketches were utilized as warships by the Sultanate of Mysore during the rule of Hyder Ali.
On 16 February 1804, Decatur laid his command, the ketch Intrepid, alongside the captured frigate and, as Captain Edward Preble later wrote, “in a Gallant and Officer-like manner, boarded and carried her against all opposition…” Silence cloaked the bold American attack.
In 2007, a local group, backed by Tourism Kangaroo Island and many local organisations, proposed that the historic ketch Falie be moved from Port Adelaide to the wharf at American River as an interpretive maritime museum.
# Gypsy Moth V (England), one-off staysail ketch, 17.37 metres, Peter Hambly - Leg 1 & Giles Chichester Leg 2
Hinde and fellow Australian surfer Mark Scanlon were shipwrecked on the North Malé atoll in the Maldives aboard the Whitewings, a ketch in which they had been hired as crewmembers.