List of ships

This is a list of notable ships.

Civilian vessels

* Achille Lauro
* Andrea Gail
* 1893-1916 (renamed Seyer 1910), banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* , one of the largest wooden ships ever built (97.2m).
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* , Sunk by a German U boat on May 7, 1915 sinks in 18 minutes.
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* Atlas V (:fr:Atlas V)
* Bluenose
* ', sunk for the shores of Den Helder, saved by the heroic Dorus Rijkers
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* , served as both civilian and war ship.
* RV Calypso
* , banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* SS Cap Arcona, served as both civilian and war ship.
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* SS Central America, 1850s side wheel paddle steamer.
* ', banana boat of Fyffes Line.
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* 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.
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* , 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
* , banana boat of Fyffes Line.
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* ', banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* Halve Maen (Half Moon)
* Innisfallen
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* Kon-Tiki
* Lady Nelson
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* The Mayflower
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* Niña
* SS Normandie
* , served as both civilian and war ship.
* Oracabessa, banana boat of Fyffes Line.
* Pinta
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* , currently largest ocean liner.
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* Rainbow Warrior
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* Santa Maria
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* MV Steve Irwin, ship in use by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
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* , banana boat of Fyffes Line.
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* , World's oldest ocean going passenger ship, built in 1914.
* 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
* - fought the Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate.
* - Pride of German Navy in early WWII, scuttled after the Battle of the River Plate.
* - fought the Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate.
* Japanese aircraft carrier - the flagship of the Kido Butai.
* - American battleship destroyed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, turned into a memorial.
* - both and - 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.
* - Ship on which Charles Darwin travelled to the Galapagos Islands, where he first formulated his ideas of evolution.
* - light cruiser that participated in Operation Zipper, now moored on the River Thames in London.
* , she became famous for transporting Napoleon to Saint Helena in 1815.
* German battleship
* - John Paul Jones' frigate, defeated .
* (1914) - served and sunk during World War I, was the sister ship of and .
* (1929) - served as both a civilian motor liner and as a troop ship during WWII.
* - William Bligh's ship, famous for the mutiny that occurred on it.
* Japanese heavy cruiser - flagship of Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunichi during the battle of Savo Island.
* - oldest warship still in commission afloat. Widely cited as the most famous U.S. warship of all time.
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* - the first idea of a modern battleship.
* HM Bark - ship
* - British bombship that explored Antarctica.
* - first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
* - most decorated carrier in World War Two
* - sunk by the Royal Navy in the Falklands War
* - first large iron capital ship
* Golden Hind - Francis Drake's ship, used to circumnavigate the globe.
* - 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.
* - The Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in combat ( during the American Civil War).
* Imo - relief vessel involved in collision which led to the Halifax Explosion
* Carried the Atomic Bombs to Guam.
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*USS Maine - battleship that mysteriously blew up while visiting Cuba in 1898.
* - Henry VIII's flagship which sank in 1545.
* - Known for Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
* - Togo's flagship at Battle of Tsushima.
* - American battleship upon which the Japanese signed the surrender documents, ending World War II
* - 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 - flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
* - first nuclear submarine
* - first of newest class of US aircraft carrier
* - served as both civilian and war ship
* PT-109 - President John F. Kennedy's infamous command in WWII.
* British battleship in World Wars One and Two
* and - conducted tug-of-war between paddle and screw ships
* - American amphibious transport dock.
* (1769) Famous for her size.
* (1637) Charles I's prestige battleship - largest warship of her day
* - American Coast Guard cutter, survived the attack on pearl harbor, on display as a museum ship in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
* - second in the line behind at the Battle of Trafalgar. Famous as the subject of paintings by J. M. W. Turner.
* - British bombship, participated in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814
* - American New York Class Battleship. Served in both World War I and World War II. Was part of Operation Overlord and saw action in Iwo Jima.
* German battleship - WWII sistership of the Bismarck.
* - American submarine, on display in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
* - nuclear radar picket submarine - first with two reactors - first to sail around the world underwater
* - Swedish galleon that sank in 1628, since restored and displayed at the Vasa Museum
* - flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar and the oldest warship still in commission
* - Confederate ironclad that was the nemesis of the USS Monitor at the Battle of Hampton Roads
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* - first ocean-going iron ship
* Japanese battleship - Largest battleship ever built, also mounting the largest caliber main armament ever built, at 18.1 inches in diameter
* US Navy aircraft carrier, sunk in the Battle of Midway.

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