List of ships
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This is a list of '''notable ships'''.
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==Civilian vessels==
* ''[[Achille Lauro]]''
* ''[[Andrea Gail]]''
* [[Appomattox (banana boat)|''Appomattox'']] 1893-1916 (renamed ''Seyer'' 1910), banana boat of [[Fyffes Line]].
* [[Appomattox (ship)|''Appomattox'']], one of the largest wooden ships ever built (97.2m).
* [[RMS Aquitania|RMS ''Aquitania'']]
* [[SS Arizona|SS ''Arizona'']]
* [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']], Sunk by a German U boat on May 7, 1915 sinks in 18 minutes.
* [[SS Andrea Doria|SS ''Andrea Doria'']]
* ''[[Atlas V (tugboat)|Atlas V]]'' ([[:fr:Atlas V]])
* ''[[Bluenose]]''
* [[SS Britannic (1874)|SS ''Britannic'']]
* [[RMS Britannic (1929)|RMS ''Britannic'']], served as both civilian and war ship.
* ''[[RV Calypso]]''
* [[TSS Camito|TSS ''Camito'']], banana boat of [[Fyffes Line]].
* ''[[SS Cap Arcona]]'', served as both civilian and war ship.
*[[RMS Carpathia|RMS ''Carpathia'']]
* ''[[SS Central America]]'', 1850s side wheel paddle steamer.
* ''[[Chickahominy (ship)]]'', banana boat of [[Fyffes Line]].
* [[SS Cuba (1920)| SS ''Cuba'']]
* ''[[Cutty Sark]]'', clipper.
* S.S [[Earnmoor]], Steamship sunk in 1889 off of the West Indies. The second mate along with a few other survived a drift of 1,200 miles and 3 weeks in an open boat.
* [[SS Edmund Fitzgerald|SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'']]
* [[El Horria|''El Horria'']], oldest steamship still in service.
* ''[[Exxon Valdez]]''
* ''[[TSS Fairstar]]''
* ''[[RV Farley Mowat]]'', flagship of the [[Sea Shepherd Conservation Society]]
* ''[[Flying Cloud]]''
* ''[[Fram]]''
* ''[[SS Galileo Galilei]]'', also known as ''SS Galileo'' and ''SS Meridian''. Renamed ''SS Sun Vista'' before sinking in 1999.
* ''[[General Slocum]]''
* ''[[USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193)|Glomar Explorer]]''
* [[TSS Golfito|TSS ''Golfito'']], banana boat of [[Fyffes Line]].
* [[SS Great Eastern|SS ''Great Eastern'']]
* [[SS Great Britain|SS ''Great Britain'']]
* ''[[Greenbriar (ship)]]'', banana boat of [[Fyffes Line]].
* ''[[Halve Maen]]'' (''Half Moon'')
* ''[[Innisfallen]]''
* [[Kalakala|M/V ''Kalakala'']]
* ''[[Kon-Tiki]]''
* ''[[Lady Nelson]]''
* [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']]
* [[RMS Mauretania (1906)|RMS ''Mauretania'']]
* The ''[[Mayflower]]''
* [[Nimrod (ship)|''Nimrod'']]
* ''[[Niña]]''
* ''[[SS Normandie]]''
* [[RMS Olympic|RMS ''Olympic'']], served as both civilian and war ship.
* ''[[Oracabessa]]'', banana boat of [[Fyffes Line]].
* ''[[Pinta (ship)|Pinta]]''
* {{SS|Princess Alice|1865|2}}
* [[RMS Queen Elizabeth|RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'']]
* [[RMS Queen Elizabeth 2|RMS ''Queen Elizabeth 2'']]
* [[RMS Queen Mary|RMS ''Queen Mary'']]
* [[RMS Queen Mary 2|RMS ''Queen Mary 2'']], currently largest ocean liner.
* [[MS Queen Victoria| ''MS Queen Victoria'']]
* ''[[Rainbow Warrior]]''
* [[HMS Resolution (Cook)|HMS ''Resolution'']]
* ''[[Santa Maria (ship)|Santa Maria]]''
* [[SS Savannah|SS ''Savannah'']] and [[NS Savannah|NS ''Savannah'']]
* ''[[MV Steve Irwin]]'', ship in use by the [[Sea Shepherd Conservation Society]]
* [[Thermopylae (clipper)|''Thermopylae'']]
* [[SS Tilapa|SS ''Tilapa'']], banana boat of [[Fyffes Line]].
* [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']]
* [[Tyger (ship)|''Tyger'']]
* [[Victoria (ship)|''Victoria'']]
* [[Schooner Wawona|''Wawona'']]
* [[Biuki Gasa]]'s [[Solomon Islands]], dugout canoe used to find John. F. Kennedy and crew of the [[PT-109]]. Replica presented to United States in 2002.
* [[Exodus (ship)|Exodus]] Ship with the first remnants of Jews returning to The Promised Land [[History of the Jews in the Land of Israel]].
==Warships==
* [[HMNZS Achilles (70)|HMNZS ''Achilles'']] - fought the Graf Spee in the [[Battle of the River Plate]].
* [[German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee|''Admiral Graf Spee'']] - Pride of German Navy in early WWII, scuttled after the [[Battle of the River Plate]].
* [[HMS Ajax]] - fought the Graf Spee in the [[Battle of the River Plate]].
* [[USS Arizona (BB-39)|USS ''Arizona'']] - American battleship destroyed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, turned into a memorial.
* [[HMS Ark Royal|HMS ''Ark Royal'']] - both [[HMS Ark Royal (91)|HMS ''Ark Royal'' (91)]] and [[HMS Ark Royal (R09)|HMS ''Ark Royal'' (R09)]] - British aircraft carriers; the first, famous for its aircraft delivering the crippling blow to the ''Bismarck'', the second was the last conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier in [[Royal Navy]] service.
* [[HMS Beagle|HMS ''Beagle'']] - Ship on which [[Charles Darwin]] travelled to the [[Galapagos Islands]], where he first formulated his ideas of evolution.
* [[HMS Belfast|HMS ''Belfast'']] - light cruiser that participated in [[Operation Zipper]], now moored on the River Thames in London.
* [[HMS Bellerophon (1786)|HMS ''Bellerophon'']], she became famous for transporting [[Napoleon]] to [[Saint Helena]] in [[1815]].
* German battleship [[German battleship Bismarck|''Bismarck'']]
* [[USS Bonhomme Richard (1765)|USS ''Bonhomme Richard'']] - [[John Paul Jones]]' frigate, defeated [[HMS Serapis (1779)|HMS ''Serapis'']].
* [[HMHS Britannic|HMHS ''Britannic'']] (1914) - served and sunk during World War I, was the sister ship of [[RMS Olympic|RMS ''Olympic'']] and [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']].
* [[RMS Britannic (1929)|RMS ''Britannic'']] (1929) - served as both a civilian motor liner and as a troop ship during WWII.
* [[HMS Bounty|HMS ''Bounty'']] - [[William Bligh]]'s ship, famous for the [[Mutiny on the Bounty|mutiny]] that occurred on it.
* [[USS Constitution|USS ''Constitution'']] - oldest warship still in commission afloat. Widely cited as the most famous U.S. warship of all time.
* [[HMS Discovery (1789)|HMS ''Discovery'']]
* [[HMS Dreadnought (1906)|HMS ''Dreadnought'']] - the first idea of a modern battleship.
* HM [[Barque|Bark]] [[HM Bark Endeavour|''Endeavour'']] - [[Captain Cook|Cook's]] ship
* [[HMS Erebus (1826)|HMS ''Erebus'']] - British bombship that explored Antarctica.
* [[USS Enterprise (CVN-65)|USS ''Enterprise'']] - first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
* [[USS Enterprise (CV-6)|USS ''Enterprise'']] - most decorated carrier in World War Two
* [[ARA General Belgrano|ARA ''General Belgrano'']] - sunk by the Royal Navy in the Falklands War
* [[French battleship La Gloire|''Gloire'']] - first large iron capital ship
* ''[[Golden Hind]]'' - [[Francis Drake]]'s ship, used to circumnavigate the globe.
* [[HMS Hood (51)|HMS ''Hood'']] - pride of the British fleet between WWI and WWII, sunk by the ''Bismarck'' in 1941.
* [[H. L. Hunley (submarine)|''H. L. Hunley'']] - The ''Hunley'' was the first [[submarine]] to sink an enemy warship in combat ([[USS Housatonic|USS ''Housatonic'']] during the [[American Civil War]]).
* ''[[Imo (ship)|Imo]]'' - relief vessel involved in collision which led to the [[Halifax Explosion]]
* [[USS Indianapolis (CA-35)|USS ''Indianapolis'']] Carried the Atomic Bombs to Guam.
* [[HMS Iron Duke (1912)|HMS ''Iron Duke'']]
*''[[USS Maine]]'' - battleship that mysteriously blew up while visiting Cuba in 1898.
* [[Mary Rose|''Mary Rose'']] - Henry VIII's flagship which sank in 1545.
* [[The Raft of the Medusa|''Medusa'']] - Known for Théodore Géricault's painting [[The Raft of the Medusa]].
* [[Japanese battleship Mikasa|''Mikasa'']] - [[Togo]]'s flagship at [[Battle of Tsushima]].
* [[USS Missouri (BB-63)|USS ''Missouri'']] - American battleship upon which the Japanese signed the surrender documents, ending World War II
* [[USS Monitor|USS ''Monitor'']] - first ironclad ship featuring its main armament in a revolving turret.
* ''Mont-Blanc'' - Munitions ship involved in collision that led to the [[Halifax Explosion]].
* [[USS Nautilus (SSN-571)|USS ''Nautilus'']] - first nuclear submarine
* [[USS Nimitz (CVN-68)|USS ''Nimitz'']] - first of newest class of US aircraft carrier
* [[RMS Olympic|RMS ''Olympic'']] - served as both civilian and war ship
* [[PT-109]] - President John F. Kennedy's infamous command in WWII.
* [[HMS Ramillies (1916)|HMS ''Ramillies'']] British battleship in World Wars One and Two
* [[HMS Rattler (1843)|HMS ''Rattler'']] and [[HMS Alecto (1839)|HMS ''Alecto'']] - conducted tug-of-war between paddle and screw ships
* [[USS San Antonio|USS ''San Antonio'']] - American amphibious transport dock.
* [[Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad|''Santisima Trinidad'']] (1769) Famous for her size.
* [[HMS Sovereign of the Seas|HMS ''Sovereign of the Seas'']] (1637) Charles I's prestige battleship - largest warship of her day
* [[USS Taney|USS ''Taney'']] - American [[Coast Guard]] cutter, survived the [[attack on pearl harbor]], on display as a museum ship in [[Baltimore]]'s [[Inner Harbor]].
* [[HMS Temeraire|''Temeraire'']] - second in the line behind [[HMS Victory|HMS ''Victory'']] at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]]. Famous as the subject of paintings by [[J. M. W. Turner]].
* [[HMS Terror (1813)|HMS ''Terror'']] - British bombship, participated in the [[Battle of Baltimore]] in 1814
* German battleship [[German battleship Tirpitz|''Tirpitz'']] - WWII sistership of the ''Bismarck''.
* [[USS Torsk|USS ''Torsk'']] - American submarine, on display in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
* [[USS Triton (SSRN-586)|USS ''Triton'']] - nuclear radar picket submarine - first with two reactors - first to sail around the world underwater
* [[Regalskeppet Vasa|Regalskeppet ''Vasa'']] - Swedish galleon that sank in 1628, since restored and displayed at the Vasa Museum
* [[HMS Victory|HMS ''Victory'']] - [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Lord Nelson's]] flagship at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] and the oldest warship still in commission
* [[CSS Virginia|CSS ''Virginia'']] - [[Confederate States Navy|Confederate]] [[ironclad]] that was the nemesis of the USS Monitor at the [[Battle of Hampton Roads]]
* [[HMAS Voyager (D04)|HMAS ''Voyager'']]
* [[HMS Warrior (1860)|HMS ''Warrior'']] - first ocean-going iron ship
* Japanese battleship [[Japanese battleship Yamato|''Yamato'']] - Largest battleship ever built, also mounting the largest caliber main armament ever built, at 18.1 inches in diameter
* [[USS Yorktown (CV-5)|USS ''Yorktown'']] US Navy aircraft carrier, sunk in the [[Battle of Midway]].
== See also ==
* [[List of fictional ships]]
[[Category:Lists of ships|Ships]]
[[Category:Ships| ]]
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