List of famous ships
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Here is a list of famous ships:
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==Civilian vessels==* Achille Lauro
- RMS Aquitania
- SS Arizona
- SS Andrea Doria
- Atlas V (fr:Atlas V)
- Bluenose
- SS Britannic
- RMS Britannic - served as both civilian and war ship
- Calypso
- SS Cap Arcona - served as both civilian and war ship
- RMS Carpathia
- SS Cuba
- Cutty Sark
- HMS Discovery
- SS Edmund Fitzgerald
- El Horria, oldest steamship still in service
- Exxon Valdez
- 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
- 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
- RMS Olympic - served as both civilian and war ship
- 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.
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hi==Warships==
- Regalskeppet Vasa - Swedish galleon that sank in 1628, since restored and displayed at the Vasa Museum
- [[Richard]]
- HMHS Britannic - served and sunk during World War I, was the sister ship of RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic
- RMS Britannic - served as both civilian and war ship
- 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
- Imo - relief vessel involved in collision which led to the Halifax Explosion
- 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
- Mont-Blanc - Munitions ship involved in collision that led to the Halifax Explosion
- USS Nautilus - first nuclear submarine
- 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 Alecto - conducted tug-of-war between paddle and screw ships
- USS San Antonio
- HMS Sovereign of the Seas (1637) Charles I's prestige battleship - largest warship of her day
- Santisima Trinidad (1769) Famous for her size
- 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 (perhaps HMAS Voyager (D04))
- HMS Warrior - first ocean-going iron ship
- Japanese battleship Yamato
- H. L. Hunley - The Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in combat (USS Housatonic during the American Civil War).
- USS Indianapolis
