Temporary ship list edit
Civilian vessels edit
- 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 (fr:Atlas V)
- Bluenose
- Renown (1888 barque), sunk for the shores of Den Helder, saved by the heroic Dorus Rijkers
- 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
- Princess Alice
- 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
- MV Doulos, 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 edit
- 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
- USS Texas - 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 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 edit
These are lists of ships.
Civilian vessels edit
By type edit
Warships edit
By type edit
By country edit
- Germany: List of naval ships of Germany
- Japan: List of ships of the Japanese Navy
- New Zealand: List of ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy
- United Kingdom: List of Royal Navy ships
- United States: List of United States Navy ships
By era edit
Disasters edit
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Chronological edit
See also edit
The top 25 nations by 2008 Summer Olympics medals per capita are:[1]
| Rank | Nations | Medals | Population per medal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Bahamas (BAH) |
2 | 153,725 |
| 2 |  Jamaica (JAM) |
11 | 254,939 |
| 3 |  Iceland (ISL) |
1 | 304,367 |
| 4 |  Slovenia (SLO) |
5 | 401,542 |
| 5 |  Australia (AUS) |
46 | 447,844 |
| 6 |  New Zealand (NZL) |
9 | 463,717 |
| 7 |  Norway (NOR) |
10 | 464,445 |
| 8 |  Cuba (CUB) |
24 | 475,998 |
| 9 |  Armenia (ARM) |
6 | 494,764 |
| 10 |  Belarus (BLR) |
19 | 509,777 |
| 11 |  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) |
2 | 523,683 |
| 12 |  Estonia (EST) |
2 | 653,802 |
| 13 |  Lithuania (LTU) |
5 | 713,041 |
| 14 |  Bahrain (BRN) |
1 | 718,306 |
| 15 |  Latvia (LAT) |
3 | 748,474 |
| 16 |  Mongolia (MGL) |
4 | 749,020 |
| 17 |  Georgia (GEO) |
6 | 771,806 |
| 18 |  Denmark (DEN) |
7 | 783,531 |
| 19 |  Slovakia (SVK) |
6 | 874,124 |
| 20 |  Croatia (CRO) |
5 | 898,284 |
| 21 |  Hungary (HUN) |
10 | 993,091 |
| 22 |  Netherlands (NED) |
16 | 1,040,332 |
| 23 |  Azerbaijan (AZE) |
7 | 1,168,245 |
| 24 |  Kazakhstan (KAZ) |
12 | 1,180,041 |
| 25 |  Switzerland (SUI) |
6 | 1,263,586 |
References edit
- ^ Culpepper, C. (August 24, 2008) "Medals per capita goes to the Bahamas" Los Angeles Times