List of ships

This is a list of notable ships.

Civilian vessels

* "Achille Lauro"
* "Andrea Gail"
* "Appomattox" 1893-1916 (renamed "Seyer" 1910), banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* "Appomattox", one of the largest wooden ships ever built (97.2m).
* RMS "Aquitania"
* SS "Arizona"
* RMS "Lusitania", Sunk by a German U boat on May 7, 1915 sinks in 18 minutes.
* SS "Andrea Doria"
* "Atlas V" ()
* "Bluenose"
* SS "Britannic"
* RMS "Britannic", served as both civilian and war ship.
* "RV Calypso"
* TSS "Camito", banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* "SS Cap Arcona", served as both civilian and war ship.
*RMS "Carpathia"
* "SS Central America", 1850s side wheel paddle steamer.
* "Chickahominy (ship)", banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* 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"
* "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"
* "Glomar Explorer"
* TSS "Golfito", banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* SS "Great Eastern"
* SS "Great Britain"
* "Greenbriar (ship)", banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* "Halve Maen" ("Half Moon")
* "Innisfallen"
* M/V "Kalakala"
* "Kon-Tiki"
* "Lady Nelson"
* RMS "Lusitania"
* RMS "Mauretania"
* The "Mayflower"
* "Nimrod"
* "Niña"
* "SS Normandie"
* RMS "Olympic", served as both civilian and war ship.
* "Oracabessa", banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* "Pinta"
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* RMS "Queen Elizabeth"
* RMS "Queen Elizabeth 2"
* RMS "Queen Mary"
* RMS "Queen Mary 2", currently largest ocean liner.
* "MS Queen Victoria"
* "Rainbow Warrior"
* HMS "Resolution"
* "Santa Maria"
* SS "Savannah" and NS "Savannah"
* "MV Steve Irwin", ship in use by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
* "Thermopylae"
* SS "Tilapa", banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* RMS "Titanic"
* "Tyger"
* "Victoria"
* "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 with the first remnants of Jews returning to The Promised Land History of the Jews in the Land of Israel.

Warships

* HMNZS "Achilles" - fought the Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate.
* "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.
* Japanese aircraft carrier "Akagi" - the flagship of the Kido Butai.
* USS "Arizona" - American battleship destroyed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, turned into a memorial.
* HMS "Ark Royal" - both HMS "Ark Royal" (91) and 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" - Ship on which Charles Darwin travelled to the Galapagos Islands, where he first formulated his ideas of evolution.
* HMS "Belfast" - light cruiser that participated in Operation Zipper, now moored on the River Thames in London.
* HMS "Bellerophon", she became famous for transporting Napoleon to Saint Helena in 1815.
* German battleship "Bismarck"
* USS "Bonhomme Richard" - John Paul Jones' frigate, defeated HMS "Serapis".
* HMHS "Britannic" (1914) - served and sunk during World War I, was the sister ship of RMS "Olympic" and RMS "Titanic".
* RMS "Britannic" (1929) - served as both a civilian motor liner and as a troop ship during WWII.
* HMS "Bounty" - William Bligh's ship, famous for the mutiny that occurred on it.
* Japanese heavy cruiser "Chōkai" - flagship of Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunichi during the battle of Savo Island.
* USS "Constitution" - oldest warship still in commission afloat. Widely cited as the most famous U.S. warship of all time.
* HMS "Discovery"
* HMS "Dreadnought" - the first idea of a modern battleship.
* HM Bark "Endeavour" - Cook's ship
* HMS "Erebus" - British bombship that explored Antarctica.
* USS "Enterprise" - first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
* USS "Enterprise" - most decorated carrier in World War Two
* ARA "General Belgrano" - sunk by the Royal Navy in the Falklands War
* "Gloire" - first large iron capital ship
* "Golden Hind" - Francis Drake's ship, used to circumnavigate the globe.
* HMS "Hood" - pride of the British fleet between WWI and WWII, sunk by the "Bismarck" in 1941
* KMS Scharnhorst German Battle-cruiser sunk at the Battle of the North Cape by HMS Duke of York.
* "H. L. Hunley" - The "Hunley" was the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in combat (USS "Housatonic" during the American Civil War).
* "Imo" - relief vessel involved in collision which led to the Halifax Explosion
* USS "Indianapolis" Carried the Atomic Bombs to Guam.
* HMS "Iron Duke"
*"USS Maine" - battleship that mysteriously blew up while visiting Cuba in 1898.
* "Mary Rose" - Henry VIII's flagship which sank in 1545.
* "Medusa" - Known for Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
* "Mikasa" - Togo's flagship at Battle of Tsushima.
* USS "Missouri" - American battleship upon which the Japanese signed the surrender documents, ending World War II
* 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.
* Japanese battleship "Nagato" - flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
* USS "Nautilus" - first nuclear submarine
* USS "Nimitz" - first of newest class of US aircraft carrier
* RMS "Olympic" - served as both civilian and war ship
* PT-109 - President John F. Kennedy's infamous command in WWII.
* HMS "Ramillies" British battleship in World Wars One and Two
* HMS "Rattler" and HMS "Alecto" - conducted tug-of-war between paddle and screw ships
* USS "San Antonio" - American amphibious transport dock.
* "Santisima Trinidad" (1769) Famous for her size.
* HMS "Sovereign of the Seas" (1637) Charles I's prestige battleship - largest warship of her day
* USS "Taney" - American Coast Guard cutter, survived the attack on pearl harbor, on display as a museum ship in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
* "Temeraire" - second in the line behind HMS "Victory" at the Battle of Trafalgar. Famous as the subject of paintings by J. M. W. Turner.
* HMS "Terror" - British bombship, participated in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814
* German battleship "Tirpitz" - WWII sistership of the "Bismarck".
* USS "Torsk" - American submarine, on display in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
* USS "Triton" - nuclear radar picket submarine - first with two reactors - first to sail around the world underwater
* Regalskeppet "Vasa" - Swedish galleon that sank in 1628, since restored and displayed at the Vasa Museum
* HMS "Victory" - Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar and the oldest warship still in commission
* CSS "Virginia" - Confederate ironclad that was the nemesis of the USS Monitor at the Battle of Hampton Roads
* HMAS "Voyager"
* HMS "Warrior" - first ocean-going iron ship
* Japanese battleship "Yamato" - Largest battleship ever built, also mounting the largest caliber main armament ever built, at 18.1 inches in diameter
* USS "Yorktown" US Navy aircraft carrier, sunk in the Battle of Midway.

See also

* List of fictional ships