List of famous ships

Here is a list of famous ships:

Civilian vessels

  • Achille Lauro
  • RMS Aquitania
  • SS Austria
  • SS Andrea Doria
  • Atlas V (:fr:Atlas V)
  • Bluenose
  • Britannic
  • Calypso
  • RMS Carpathia
  • SS Cuba
  • Cutty Sark
  • HMS Discovery
  • SS Edmund Fitzgerald
  • El Horria, oldest steamship still in service
  • Exxon Valdez
  • Flying Cloud
  • Fram
  • General Slocum
  • Glomar Explorer
  • SS Great Eastern
  • Halve Maen (Half Moon)
  • Innisfallen
  • M/V Kalakala
  • Kon-Tiki
  • Lady Nelson
  • RMS Lusitania
  • RMS Mauretania
  • The Mayflower
  • Nimrod
  • Niña
  • SS Normandie
  • Pinta
  • Princess Alice
  • RMS Queen Elizabeth 2
  • RMS Queen Mary
  • RMS Queen Mary 2
  • Rainbow Warrior
  • HMS Resolution
  • Santa Maria
  • SS Savannah and NS Savannah
  • Thermopylae
  • 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.

Warships

  • Regalskeppet Vasa - Swedish galleon that sank in 1628, since restored and displayed at the Vasa Museum
  • German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee - Pride of German Navy in early WWII
  • USS Arizona
  • HMS Ark Royal - both HMS Ark Royal (91) and HMS Ark Royal (R09)
  • HMS Beagle
  • HMS Belfast - light cruiser that participated in Operation Zipper, now moored on the Thames in London
  • HMS Bellerophon (1786), she became famous for transporting Napoleon to Saint Helena in 1815
  • German battleship Bismarck
  • USS Bonhomme Richard
  • HMS Bounty
  • USS Constitution - oldest warship still in commission afloat. Widely cited as the most famous U.S. warship of all time.
  • HMS Dreadnought - the first modern battleship
  • Endeavour - Cook's ship
  • HMS Erebus
  • USS Enterprise - first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
  • ARA General Belgrano - sunk by the Royal Navy in the Falklands War
  • Gloire - first large iron capital ship
  • Golden Hind - Drakes ship
  • USS Nimitz - first of newest class of US aircraft carrier
  • HMS Hood - famous British battlecruiser
  • HMS Iron Duke
  • Mary Rose - Henry VIII's flagship which sank in 1545
  • Medusa - Known for Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa
  • Mikasa - Togos flagship at Battle of Tsushima
  • USS Missouri
  • USS Monitor - first ironclad turret ship
  • USS Nautilus - first nuclear submarine
  • PT-109 - President John F. Kennedy's infamous command in WWII. * HMS Ramillies British battleship in World Wars One and Two
  • HMS Rattler and Alecto - conducted tug-of-war between paddle and screw ships
  • USS San Antonio
  • 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
  • Tirpitz, German battleship in WWII
  • 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.
  • Voyager
  • HMS Warrior - first ocean-going iron ship
  • Japanese battleship Yamato
  • CSS H. L. Hunley - The Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in combat (USS Housatonic during the American Civil War).

See also

  • List of fictional ships