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