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A ship is a large watercraft designed for travel across the surface of a body of water, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized tasks...

up ship or -ship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ship is a large vessel that floats on water, specifically the ocean and the sea. Ship or ships may...

Ship-to-ship (STS) transfer operation is the transfer of cargo between seagoing ships positioned alongside each other, either while stationary or underway...

pronunciation: [²vɑːsa] ) is a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. The ship sank after sailing roughly 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into her maiden voyage on 10...

two-way radio transceivers on ships and watercraft used for bidirectional voice communication from ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore (for example with harbormasters)...

Liberty ships are a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Although British in concept...

Ship-to-ship may refer to: Ship-to-ship cargo transfer Ship-to-ship radiotelephony Type 90 Ship-to-Ship Missile This disambiguation page lists articles...

Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners which are primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans...

blue color scheme. This trademark funnel design is built onto the line's ships. Carnival is ranked first on the list of largest cruise lines based on passengers...

Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts...

Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on...

ghost ship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ghost ship is a vessel with no living crew aboard. Ghost Ship may also refer to: The Ghost Ship, a 1943...

Co. purchased the Monterey to sail for their StarLauro Cruises brand. The ship retained the original name she had used while sailing with Matson Lines....

time White Star Line had lost a ship on her maiden voyage, the first being RMS Tayleur in 1854. Titanic was the largest ship afloat upon entering service...

A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous...

terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water (mostly though not necessarily...

she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) on 14 April. She sank two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 ship's time (05:18 GMT) on 15 April, resulting...

States Navy has approximately 465 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 40 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement...

The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and common thought experiment about whether an object (in the most common stating of...

A patrol boat (also referred to as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence...

captain goes down with the ship" is the maritime tradition that a sea captain holds the ultimate responsibility for both the ship and everyone embarked on...

allow it to serve as a mobile, seagoing airbase. Typically it is the capital ship of a fleet (known as a carrier battle group), as it allows a naval force...

A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a vessel with no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostly vessel, such as the Flying Dutchman,...

The Oseberg ship (Norwegian: Osebergskipet) is a well-preserved longship (probably a karve) discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near...

Catamarans range in size from small sailing or rowing vessels to large naval ships and roll-on/roll-off car ferries. The structure connecting a catamaran's...

A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line...

cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship designed to transport goods, commodities, and materials across seas and oceans to help others, or to ship to stores...

purpose-built cruise ship Italia. Princess, who marketed the ship as Princess Italia, but never officially renamed her, used the ship to inaugurate their...

Ship money was a tax of medieval origin levied intermittently in the Kingdom of England until the middle of the 17th century. Assessed typically on the...

flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships. Lighters were traditionally unpowered and were moved and steered using...

Gold Ship (Japanese: ゴールドシップ, Hepburn: Gōrudo Shippu; foaled 6 March 2009) is a retired Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career which began...

active and commissioned ships (including submarines as well as one historic ship, HMS Victory) in the Royal Navy, plus 9 ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary...

An amphibious assault ship (AAS) is a type of amphibious warfare ship designed for spearheading amphibious incursions of marines into enemy territories...

Canadian and Norwegian navies. The programme, known as the Global Combat Ship, was launched by the British Ministry of Defence to partially replace the...

Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, used in Scandinavia throughout the Middle Ages. The boat-types were quite varied, depending on what...

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically intending to steal cargo...

COVID-19 pandemic, the disease spread to a number of cruise ships, with the nature of such ships – including crowded semi-enclosed areas, increased exposure...

Ghost Ship is a 2002 supernatural horror film directed by Steve Beck from a screenplay by Mark Hanlon and John Pogue. Its plot follows a marine salvage...

Ship of fools is an allegory that has long been a fixture in Western literature and art. Ship of Fools may refer to: Ship of Fools (satire), a 1494 satire...

sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged ship, said to be "ship-rigged"...

to the specific frequencies on which these weapons are projected once a ship or an individual drone is struck down by them. Later attempts to modulate...

The Freedom-class is one of two classes of the littoral combat ship program built for the United States Navy. The Freedom-class was proposed by a consortium...

Danish East Asiatic Company in 1921, it was the world's largest sailing ship at the time, and primarily served for sail training of young cadets. The...

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. In modern times, it normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard...

mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state, she was the second and last ship in the Pennsylvania class. After being commissioned in 1916, Arizona remained...

The black rat (Rattus rattus), also known as the roof rat, ship rat, or house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the stereotypical rat genus Rattus...

A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a...

Knock Nevis, and Mont—was a ULCC supertanker and the longest self-propelled ship in history. It was built in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Yokosuka...

Locks then lower the ships at the other end. The original locks are 33.5 meters (110 ft) wide and allow the passage of Panamax ships. A third, wider lane...

littoral combat ship (LCS) is a relatively small surface vessel designed for littoral warfare in near-shore operations. There are two LCS ship classes deployed...

The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls from a ship and swims to a mysterious island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by...

in Celebration, Florida. As of 2026, Disney Cruise Line operates eight ships: Disney Magic, Disney Wonder, Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy, Disney Wish...

The ship types in service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) include aircraft carriers, submarines, (both nuclear and conventional), amphibious...

images of each other. One asymmetric feature is where access to a boat, ship, or aircraft is at the side; it is usually only on the port side (hence the...

2022. As of April 2024, SN20 (Ship 20) remains in the Rocket Garden. Ship 21 was scrapped before being completed. Ship 22 moved to the Rocket Garden in...

acceptance. Ships were disarmed, and some of them, such as the battleship Nagato, were taken by the Allied Powers as reparations. The remaining ships were used...

because they resemble the human rib. The ship's outer planking and inner sheathing are attached to the ribs. For ships that are too large for a rib to be made...

come in many shapes and sizes, from small patrol ships and troop transports to large capital ships like Star Destroyers and other battleships. Starfighters...

Ship of Harkinian is an unofficial open source port of the 1998 Nintendo 64 video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that runs on Microsoft Windows...

Ship may refer to: Look up abandon ship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Abandonment of ship Abandon Ship (Knife Party album), 2014 Abandon Ship,...

Ceremonial ship launching involves the performing of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water. It is a nautical tradition...

capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied. In the 17th to early 18th centuries the term "frigate" was loosely given to any full-rigged ship built...

of spars, erected vertically or near-vertically on the median line of a ship or boat. A mast may carry sails, spars, and derricks. It may also give necessary...

Look up ship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Ship may refer to: The Ship (film), a 1921 Italian silent historical drama film The Ship (TV series)...

bread, sea biscuit, soda crackers, sea bread (as rations for sailors), ship's biscuit, and pejoratively as dog biscuits, molar breakers, sheet iron, tooth...

The world's longest ships are listed according to their overall length (LOA), which is the maximum length of the vessel measured between the extreme points...

Line. Home Lines' ships had held two of the five contracts offered by the Government of Bermuda to cruise lines, giving the ships priority berthing arrangement...

Viking Age, Roden was divided into skeppslag ("ship districts"), each responsible for supplying ships and crews when the king issued a call to the leidang...

This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Container ships have been built in increasingly...

to the ice class assigned to a ship by a classification society based on the Unified Requirements for Polar Class Ships developed by the International...

An anti-ship missile (AShM or ASM) is a guided missile that is designed for use against ships and large boats. Most anti-ship missiles are of the sea-skimming...

Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several operational...

The names of commissioned ships of the United States Navy all start with USS, for United States Ship. Non-commissioned, primarily civilian-crewed vessels...

Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving...

Carnival Sunrise (formerly Carnival Triumph) is a Destiny-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. As she and her three younger sisters (Carnival...

the RMS Titanic. He perished along with more than 1,500 people when the ship sank on her maiden voyage. Thomas Andrews Jr. was born on 7 February 1873...

A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital. Most are operated by the military forces...

re-purposed the ships for surface warfare. In 2023, the Navy began removing the AGS from the ships and replaced them with hypersonic missiles. The ships are classed...

based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ship was scuttled following an act of mass murder by the ship's captain, Julian Harvey, on November 12, 1961...

a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She was built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the flagship of one of the three annual fleets of company ships and...

long as there are connecting bodies of water that are navigable to boats, ships or barges such as oceans, lakes, rivers and canals. Shipping may be for...

A propeller (often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a type of propulsor with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are...

cruise ships ordered by Royal Caribbean International to be built by Meyer Turku in Turku, Finland. As of 2026, this class is the largest cruise ship class...

led to the larger steamship, which is a seaworthy and often ocean-going ship. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S (for 'Screw...

Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships developed in the early 16th century from ships such as the caravel and the carrack, in Portugal and in...

exercises. The international prefix for ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy is HNLMS (His/Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship). The Netherlands navy itself uses...

pioneer years of aeronautics, terms such as "airship", "air-ship", "air ship" and "ship of the air" meant any kind of navigable or dirigible flying machine...

TCG Anadolu (L-400) is a drone carrier-amphibious assault ship of the Turkish Navy. It is named after the peninsula of Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu) which...

disease on cruise ships is a hazard associated with cruises. Outbreaks of contagious diseases can spread quickly due to the confined cruise ship environment...

associated with mnemonic phrases such as "save our souls" and "save our ship". Moreover, due to its high-profile use in emergencies, the phrase "SOS"...

A prison ship, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war...

ships presents a picture which can never be fully agreed upon in the absence of greater data availability and a consistent standard for which ships are...

Spanish: nao; Catalan: carraca) is a three- or four-masted ocean-going sailing ship that was developed in the 14th to 15th centuries in Europe, most notably...

Verne’s Columbiad as a "space-ship" — the first recorded use of this term. The concept of a "space ship" (or "rocket ship") was further developed in twentieth...

in 1862 during the American Civil War, when they operated against wooden ships, and against each other at the Battle of Hampton Roads in Virginia. Their...

self-propelled vessel, such as: Heavy-lift ship, which partially submerge to allow their cargo (another ship) to float into place for transport Narco-submarine...

A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast...

White Star Line's Olympic class of ocean liners and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the younger sister of RMS Olympic and...

the coastline through ledungen. This involved combined rowing and sailing ships (without artillery). This system became obsolete with the development of...

Bay, an embayment of the Pacific Ocean into Pitcairn Island, named for the ship Bounty Islands, a small group of 13 islets and numerous rocks in the south...

cruise ships carry the names of former transatlantic ocean liners operated by the company. Its current flagship, Rotterdam (2020), is the seventh ship to...

The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Defense, Space & Security). The AGM-84E...

A cog is a type of ship that was used during the Middle Ages, mostly for trade and transport but also in war. It first appeared in the 10th century, and...

A warship or combatant ship is a naval ship that is used for naval warfare. Usually they belong to the navy branch of the armed forces of a nation, though...

The AGM-158C LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile) is a stealth air launch anti-ship cruise missile developed for the United States Air Force and United...

A ship identifier refers to one of several types of identifiers used for maritime vessels. An identifier may be a proper noun (La Niña); a proper noun...

Space ship All pages with titles beginning with Space Ship All pages with titles containing Spaceship All pages with titles containing Space ship Ship (disambiguation)...

on the first leg of a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea when the cruise ship deviated from her planned route at Isola del Giglio, Italy in order to perform...

waters of Nagasaki in 1610. The richly laden "great ship of commerce", famed as the "black ship" by the Japanese, sank after its captain, André Pessoa...

The Mahogany Ship is a putative early Australian shipwreck that is believed by some to lie beneath the sand in the Armstrong Bay area, approximately 3...

Gold Ship (Japanese: ゴールドシップ, Hepburn: Gōrudo Shippu), also known by the shorthand Golshi (ゴルシ, Gorushi), is a character from the multimedia franchise...

Breakaway-class cruise ship Concordia-class cruise ship Conquest-class cruise ship Destiny-class cruise ship Dream-class cruise ship Edge-class cruise ship Excellence-class...

was the designation for the largest ships of the line. Originating in the Jacobean era with the designation of Ships Royal capable of carrying at least...

The Canberra class is a ship class of two landing helicopter dock (LHD) ships built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Planning to upgrade the navy's...

Type 076 amphibious assault ship (Chinese: 076型两栖攻击舰) in its native China, is an upcoming class of amphibious assault ship serving the People's Liberation...

TCG Göksu (F-497) Also received 8-cell Mk-41 VLS for Evolved Sea Sparrow. The first ship from the İstif class frigates was delivered. ex D'Estienne d'Orves-class...

Napoléon-class ship of the line, a class of ship of the French Navy French ship Napoléon, a French Navy ship name French battleship Napoléon, a French ship of the...

A Landing Ship, Tank (LST) is a type of amphibious warfare ship class designed to support amphibious operations by carrying tanks along with other military...

A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship. Such vessels share a nearly identical hull and superstructure...

The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter...

William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company (also known as William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company) was an American shipbuilding company based in...

Service or HF ship-to-shore operates on shortwave radio frequencies, using single-sideband modulation. The usual method is that a ship calls a shore station...

25 June 1828, the ship's captain had brutally murdered seven of his crewmen. The story was largely forgotten until 2010, when The Ship of Seven Murders...

Treasure ship or treasure fleet may refer to: Chinese treasure ship, a type of large wooden ship in the fleet of admiral Zheng He, 15th-century Ming dynasty...

International maritime signal flags are standarized flags used to communicate with ships. The principal system of flags and associated codes is the International...

a main battery consisting of large guns, designed to serve as a capital ship. From their advent in the late 1880s, battleships were among the largest...

hell ship is a ship with extremely inhumane living conditions or with a reputation for cruelty among the crew. It now generally refers to the ships used...

A junk (Chinese: 䑸; pinyin: zōng) is a type of Chinese sailing ship characterized by a central rudder, an overhanging flat transom, watertight bulkheads...

terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water (mostly though not necessarily...

several sailing ships operating in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea in the 1600s and 1700s. The first Seaflower, regarded as sister ship to the Mayflower...

States Navy ships Surprise (1777 ship), the first American naval ship of the name Surprize (1780 ship), a British East India Company merchant ship Surprise (1813...

The first classes of ships to bear the formal designation TBD were the Daring class of two ships and Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy.[citation...

CAM ships were World War II–era British merchant ships used in convoys as a stop-gap until sufficient escort carriers became available. CAM ship is an...

apostles of Jesus Gospel of Matthew, a book of the Bible Matthew (1497 ship), the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497, with two 1990s replicas MV Matthew I...

A generation ship, generation starship, or world ship is a hypothetical type of interstellar ark, a multi-generational space habitat and starship. It is...

before his death, and the renaming was endorsed by his widow Terri. The ship and her crew, and their efforts for conservation, were the subject of the...

dispatch more ships to "attack" other planets. Yet another variant on the idea of the self-replicating starship is that of the seeder ship. Such starships...

The New York Shipbuilding Corporation (or New York Ship for short) was an American shipbuilding company that operated from 1899 to 1968, ultimately completing...

in 1939 and 1940. They were initially intended to intercept fast capital ships such as the Japanese Kongō-class battlecruisers and serve as the "fast wing"...

Mayflower was an English square-rigged merchant sailing ship, active from before 1609 until 1622. Her tonnage was 180+,[dubious – discuss] and she was...

Medieval ships were the vessels used in Europe during the Middle Ages. Like ships from antiquity, they were moved by sails, oars, or a combination of the...

Fram ('Forward') is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup,...

A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. It results from the event of shipwrecking...

and small-ship cruise line in the United States with its headquarters in Guilford, Connecticut. The line has 28 small U.S.-flagged cruise ships that cruise...

cutters. In technical terms, even the more specialised bomb vessels and fire ships were classed by the Royal Navy as sloops-of-war, and in practice these were...

Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both naval and commercial ships. Its facilities span more than 550 acres (2.2 km2)...

containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their cargo. Intermodal...

A naval ship (or naval vessel) is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) that is used by a navy. Naval ships are differentiated...

deck is a permanent covering over a compartment or a hull of a ship. On a boat or ship, the primary or upper deck is the horizontal structure that forms...

Scuttling is the act of deliberately sinking a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull, typically by its crew opening holes in its hull. Scuttling...

a Polish ship. In September 1986, the ship suffered a serious fire. No one on board was injured, but the ship was heavily damaged. The ship was repaired...

A ship built in medieval Spain in c. 1441, known as La Pinta (Spanish for The Painted One, The Look, or The Spotted One) was the fastest of the three Spanish...

Ballast is weight placed low in ships to lower their centre of gravity, which increases stability (more technically, to provide a righting moment to resist...

systems. The term is mostly found in science fiction. Reference to a "star-ship" are found as early as 1882 in Oahspe: A New Bible. While NASA's Voyager...

(1522 ship), a 16th-century war ship of the Knights Hospitaller Santa Anna, a Manila galleon captured and sunk by Thomas Cavendish in 1587 Spanish ship Santa...

MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship, sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilians...

first French cruise ship. The company operates eleven ships, all of which operate under the French flag. Ponant started out with one ship, Le Ponant, a three...

w.t., or dwt) or tons deadweight (DWT) is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry. It is the sum of the weights of cargo, fuel, fresh water, ballast...

steam-powered ships thereafter. Since the 1980s, steam turbines have been replaced by gas turbines on fast ships and by diesel engines on other ships; exceptions...

Ship stabilizers (or stabilisers) are fins or rotors mounted beneath the waterline and emerging laterally from the hull to reduce a ship's roll due to...

Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched...

MV Dali is a Neopanamax container ship built by Hyundai Heavy Industries. On 26 March 2024, she caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in...

modifications are complete, the ship will be named Return On Investment. The 120 m (400 ft) ship will be refit by Bollinger Ship in Louisiana. On February 28...

The ship is one of the fastest tall ships in the world.[citation needed] She has participated on relatively regular basis in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships regatta...

safety'." SpaceShip III was an evolved version of SpaceShipTwo. All SpaceShip III development was cancelled in 2024 with no SpaceShip III spaceplanes...

A turtle ship (Korean: 거북선; RR: geobukseon; Korean pronunciation: [kʌ.buk̚.s͈ʌn]) was a type of warship that was used by the Korean Joseon Navy from the...

The Khufu ship is an intact full-size solar barque from ancient Egypt. It was sealed into a pit alongside the Great Pyramid of pharaoh Khufu around 2500...

and dry-docking are the main activities involved. Ship design calculations are also required for ships being modified (by means of conversion, rebuilding...

Russo-Japanese War List of hospital ships sunk in World War I List of maritime disasters in World War I List of foreign ships wrecked or lost in the Spanish...

a protected harbor that can accommodate aircraft carrier-size vessels, ship's intermediate maintenance activity (SIMA) and a military airfield (Admiral...

never acquired a specific meaning, it was usually reserved for a sailing ship armed with cannons. The rating system of the Royal Navy classified men-of-war...

at the latest, the mid-19th century, in which the dominance of sailing ships in global trade and warfare culminated. Marked by the introduction of naval...

or Nao Victoria (Spanish for "Victory") was a carrack famed as the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world. Victoria was part of the Spanish...

A rotor ship is a type of ship designed to use the Magnus effect for propulsion. The ship is propelled, at least in part, by large powered vertical rotors...

Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed specifically to transport wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer...

navies to "lieutenant commander", derives from the name of this type of ship. The rank is the most junior of three "captain" ranks in several European...

known as "James Harris", "A Warning for Married Women", "The Distressed Ship Carpenter", "James Herries", "The Carpenter’s Wife", "The Banks of Italy"...

An arsenal ship is a naval concept for a warship intended to serve as a floating missile launcher platform with as many as five hundred vertical launch...

Big Ship or The Big Ship may refer to: Big Ship (Freddie McGregor album), 1982 Big Ship (EP), a 1987 extended play by Cardiacs "Big Ship" (Cliff Richard...

koŋˈkɔrdja]) was a cruise ship operated by the Italian cruise line Costa Crociere. She was the first of her class, followed by her sister ships Costa Serena, Costa...

"Taiwan International Shipbuilding Corporation") is a company that produces ships for civilian and military use in Taiwan. It is headquartered in Kaohsiung...

Archaeologists have been excavating the area since 1938, when an undisturbed ship burial containing a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artifacts was discovered. The site...

Vikrant (1961). Vikrant means "courageous" in Sanskrit. The motto of the ship, "जयेम सम् युधिस्पृधः" (Sanskrit), means "I defeat those who dare to challenge...

clippers may be schooners, brigs, brigantines, etc., as well as full-rigged ships. Clippers were mostly constructed in British and American shipyards, although...

Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, decoy vessels, special service ships, or mystery ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed...

class (formerly the LHA(R) class) is a ship class of landing helicopter assault (LHA) type amphibious assault ships for the United States Navy (USN). The...

called the trysail. Attached to the respective yards of square-rigged ships are smaller spars, which can be extended, thus lengthening the yard, thus...

Fleet of the Russian Navy. The ship is the second of the class, known in Russia as Project 11540 Yastreb (hawk). The ship is designed to search for, detect...

was an armed merchantman in the 17th century. Initially a privately-owned ship, Abigail had a brief spell in the Venetian navy, and was later requestioned...

flagship of the Cunard Line since April 2004 and, as of 2026, remains the only ship built for service as an ocean liner still in active service. Queen Mary 2...

In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third-rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two...

agency vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used under sail or oars, or, historically, to a type of...

A number of ships have run aground or sunk in the Bristol Channel, a stretch of water between southern Wales, Devon and Somerset. Cardiff, Barry and Penarth...

A ship burial or boat grave is a burial in which a ship or boat is used either as the tomb for the dead and the grave goods, or as a part of the grave...

Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known...

the largest ships. The rank is equal to the army rank of colonel and air force rank of group captain. Equivalent ranks worldwide include ship-of-the-line...

step in constructing a ship. In the British and American shipbuilding traditions, this event marks the beginning date of a ship's construction. The word...

A slave ship is a vessel used to transport slaves. Slave Ship may also refer to: The Slave Ship, a painting by J. M. W. Turner The Slave Ship, a poem...

leaving a ship or aircraft, or removing goods from a ship or aircraft. (debark: from the French des meaning "from", and, barque, meaning "small ship"). The...

passive electronically scanned array radar. As of April 2026,[update] 75 ships are active, with 24 more planned to enter service, making it by far the...

ship, which is also known as a Gem-class ship. Diamond Princess and her sister ship, Sapphire Princess, are the widest subclass of Grand-class ships,...

fitted to varied types of ships, dating back to antiquity. The weapon comprised an underwater prolongation of the bow of the ship to form an armoured beak...

mother ship, mothership or mother-ship is a large vehicle that leads, serves, or carries other smaller vehicles. A mother ship may be a maritime ship, aircraft...

The tall ship Elissa is a three-masted barque. She is based in Galveston, Texas, and is one of the oldest ships sailing today. Launched in 1877, she is...

dock, also called a landing platform dock (LPD), is an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force...

Spanish ships used by Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to the West Indies in 1492. As was tradition for Spanish ships of the day...

A ship camel is an external flotation tank that can be fitted to a ship to increase her buoyancy or reduce her draught. Its inner walls may be concave...

A stealth ship uses stealth technology to avoid detection through a combination of reduction of radar, infrared, visible light, radio frequency, and acoustic...

growing ever since. In 2013 the worldwide fleet of drillships topped 80 ships, more than double its size in 2009. Drillships are not only growing in size...

surface vessel (USV), colloquially called a drone boat, drone ship or sea drone, is a boat or ship that operates on the surface of the water without a crew...

The Last Ship may refer to: The Last Ship (musical), 2014, developed by Sting The Last Ship (album), 2013, featuring music connected to the musical The...

a college in Dartmouth, Devon, England HMS Dartmouth, ships of the Royal Navy Dartmouth, a ship that had its tea dumped into the Boston Harbor during...

on a ship used to expel boiler steam and smoke or engine exhaust. They are also commonly referred to as stacks. The primary purpose of a ship's funnel(s)...

In the architecture of a ship, a companion or companionway is a raised and windowed hatchway in the ship's deck, with a ladder leading below and the hooded...

The Flying Ship (Ukrainian: «Летючий корабель», romanized: Letiuchyi korabel; Russian: «Летучий корабль», romanized: Letuchiy korabl) is an East Slavic...

various ships and a shore establishment USS Hannibal (Ag-1), a converted steamer Hannibal (slave ship), a 17th-century slave-trading ship Hannibal (Dortmund)...

A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. "Tall...

including "Waves on the Sea", "The Stormy Winds", "Our Gallant Ship", and "The Wrecked Ship". The song belongs in the category of sea ballads, being a song...

less common, "SS" is incorrectly assumed by many to stand for "steamship". Ships powered by internal combustion engines use a prefix such as "MV" for motor...

conscripts are trained annually. Finnish Navy vessels use the ship prefix FNS ("Finnish Navy Ship") in English-language contexts, although this prefix is not...

This is a list of historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used, excluding smaller vessels considered to be...

The lead ship, name ship, or class leader is the first of a series or class of ships that are all constructed according to the same general design. The...

An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship that was primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail...

An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to support combatant ships and other naval operations. Auxiliary ships are not primary combatant vessels, though...

The Independence class is a class of littoral combat ships built for the United States Navy. The hull design evolved from a project at Austal to design...

A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of sailing. 'Hulk' may be used to describe a ship that has been launched but not completed, an abandoned...

Command ships serve as the flagships of the commander of a fleet. They provide communications, office space, and accommodations for a fleet commander...

A fire ship or fireship is a large wooden vessel set on fire to be used against enemy ships during a ramming attack or similar maneuver. Fireships were...

horsepower (180 kW) B&W Alpha diesel could propel the ship at 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph). The ship's single hold was accessible through three hatches. Søren...

poem titled Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore, has been given to a number of ships: A 380-ton sailing vessel. Sailed first to Charleston on 1 September 1823...

the term "great ship" was used to formally delineate the English navy's largest ships. The earliest categorisation of Royal Navy ships dates to the reign...

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Drone ship or drone boat, may refer to: An autonomous spaceport drone ship or ASDS, a self-propelled sea-going barge...

Galileo's ship refers to two physics experiments, a thought experiment and an actual experiment, by Galileo Galilei, the 16th- and 17th-century physicist...

A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially...

a ship and its cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty. Salvage may encompass towing, lifting a vessel, or effecting repairs to a ship. Salvors...

Ship models or model ships are scale models of ships. They can range in size from 1/6000 scale wargaming miniatures to large vessels capable of holding...

construction or repair phase of a ship. The term is derived from the words "ship" and "fit" -- essentially, "fitting" parts of the "ship" together. A shipfitter...

Viking Age, being part of the Nordic ship building tradition. As the name suggests, they were long slender ships, intended for speed, with the ability...

thirteen-episode American educational television program depicting the crew of the ship Mimi exploring the ocean and taking a census of humpback whales. The series...

Ship of Magic is a 1998 fantasy novel by American writer Robin Hobb, the first in her Liveship Traders Trilogy. A liveship is a ship made of Wizardwood...

Belgium French ship Bourgogne (1766), a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy French ship Duc de Bourgogne (1751), an 80-gun ship of the line of...

Concrete ships are ships with hulls built primarily with concrete reinforced with steel rather than steel or wood. There are also similar ships made of...

the second ship was also approved in the following year's plan. The ships have many design elements in common with the 8,900-ton transport ship (05LST) planned...

generally on a ship or an aircraft. A cabin which protrudes above the level of a ship's deck may be referred to as a deckhouse. In sailing ships, the officers...

A mine countermeasures vessel or MCMV is a type of naval ship designed for the locating of and destruction of naval mines which combines the role of a...

Hampshire Advertiser. Southampton, Hampshire, England. 12 Feb 1873. p. 3. Retrieved 2021-06-10. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Henrietta (ship, 1861)....

"Shiprock" or Shiprock Peak or Ship Rock derives from the peak's resemblance to an enormous 19th-century clipper ship. Americans first called the peak...

The Victory ship is a class of cargo ships produced in large numbers by American shipyards during World War II. They were a more modern design compared...

Ship stability is an area of naval architecture and ship design that deals with how a ship behaves at sea, both in still water and in waves, whether intact...

Spanish, and Italian, the term barca refers to a small boat, not a full-sized ship. French influence in England led to the use in English of both words, although...

Don't Give Up the Ship may refer to: "Don't give up the ship", the dying command of U.S. naval officer James Lawrence later used as words on the battle...

a cruise in which the performance of a ship is tested. Generally, shakedown cruises are performed before a ship enters service or after major changes such...

The stone ship, or ship setting, was an early burial custom in Scandinavia, Northern Germany, and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial was...

coastal defense ships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the late 19th century. The class comprised two ships: Odin, named after...

A submarine tender, in British English a submarine depot ship, is a type of depot ship that supplies and supports submarines. Submarines are small compared...

list of ships and classes of the Soviet Navy. In the Soviet Navy these were classified as small anti-submarine ships (MPK) or small missile ships (MRK)...

A sleeper ship is a hypothetical type of crewed spacecraft, or starship in which most or all of the crew spend the journey in some form of hibernation...

Loose lips sink ships is an American English idiom meaning "beware of unguarded talk". The phrase originated on posters during World War II, with the...

‹ The template Infobox musical is being considered for merging. › The Last Ship is an original musical with music and lyrics by Sting and a book by Lorne...

A depot ship is an auxiliary ship used as a mobile or fixed base for submarines, destroyers, minesweepers, fast attack craft, landing craft, or other...

Europa (1781 EIC ship), a British East Indiaman Europa (barque), a Dutch tall ship built in 1911 MS Europa, the name of several ships SS Europa, the name...

This is a list of active Italian Navy ships. The navy maintains approximately 199 ships in service, including minor auxiliary vessels. The fleet has started...

Rico, a barrio San Salvador (Cabrillo's ship), Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's flagship San Salvador (replica ship), a replica of Cabrillo's flagship built...

The capital ships of a navy are its most important warships; they are generally the larger ships when compared to other warships in their respective fleet...

Spanish ship that participated in Magellan's circumnavigation CSS Robert E. Lee, an American Civil War-era ship, later the Chilean Navy ship Concepción...

A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations...

class (also identified as the ANZAC class and the MEKO 200 ANZ type) is a ship class of ten frigates; eight operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)...

Ship motions are the six degrees of freedom that a ship, boat, or other watercraft can experience. These can be affected by the ship’s own propulsion as...

Powered by both sidewheels and a screw propeller, she was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry...

is no ship's store in the typical Navy sense of the term, but the ship's captain may unlock the "slop chest" and sell ship's coins and other ship-specific...

SS Deutschland, the name of several steamships SMS Deutschland, the name of ships of the German Empire's Kaiserliche Marine Deutschland-class battleship,...

Surface combatants (or surface ships or surface vessels) are a subset of naval warships which are designed for warfare on the surface of the water, with...

A barracks ship or barracks barge or berthing barge, or in civilian use accommodation vessel or accommodation ship, is a ship or a non-self-propelled barge...

List of active ships of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is a list of ships in active service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. The JMSDF...

special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships. Although the...

The Type 88 surface-to-ship missile (88式地対艦誘導弾, SSM-1) is a truck-mounted subsonic sea skimming anti-ship missile developed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy...

de la Cosa. In 1492, the ship ran aground on a sand bar near modern-day Cap-Haïtien of the island of Hispaniola. The ship's wood was stripped and then...

A ship chandler is a retail dealer who specializes in providing supplies or equipment for ships. For traditional sailing ships, items that could be found...

designed the frigates to be the young Navy's capital ships, and so Constitution and her sister ships were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard...

Leonidas (named after king Leonidas I of Sparta) was a labour transport ship (schooner) that played an important role in the history of Fiji. She had been...

four container ships of 26,000 tonnes DWT. Those ships were powered by twin Pratt & Whitney gas turbines of the FT 4 series. The four ships in the class...

The Type 12 surface-to-ship missile (12式地対艦誘導弾) is a truck-mounted anti-ship missile developed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 2012. It is an...

for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land vehicles, for example trains or trucks, in which case the terminal...

parent company of Navis Pack & Ship, based in Denver, Colorado, United States. The company formerly franchised Navis Pack & Ship (NP&S) and Handle With Care...

The White Ship may refer to: The White Ship, a vessel which sank in the English Channel in 1120, drowning William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King...

Ship tracks are clouds that form around the exhaust released by ships into the still ocean air. Water molecules collect around the tiny particles (aerosols)...

is a type of ship that functions like a barge, in that it is towed by a steamship, but also has sails like a schooner. This type of ship evolved from...

The Wackiest Ship in the Army is an American 1960 Eastmancolor CinemaScope comedy-drama war film directed by Richard Murphy and starring Jack Lemmon, Ricky...

The bow (/baʊ/) is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is farthest forward when the vessel is underway in the usual direction...

Eagle (2000 ship), a cruise ship known as American Eagle from 2000 to 2013 Queen of the Mississippi (2015 ship), a paddlewheel river cruise ship that entered...

Glückauf was a German ship that represented a major step forward in oil tanker design. "When the Glückauf sailed from the Tyne on 10 July 1886 she was...

A ship's tender, usually referred to as a tender, is a boat or ship used to service or support other boats or ships. This is generally done by transporting...

is a place where ships are built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Compared to shipyards...

A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tanker ship include the oil tanker...

late December the tea ship returned to England with its cargo following a confrontation with the ship's captain. The tea ship bound for New York City...

Hansen serving as ship's master. in 1887, Hans Hansen sold his share to Ingebret Larsen of Sheboygan and Larsen became the ship's master. In winter of...

Panamax and New Panamax (or Neopanamax) are the size limits for ships traveling through the Panama Canal. The limits and requirements are published by...

The Freedom Ship is a floating city project proposed in the late 1990s by engineer Norman Nixon. The namesake of the project reflects the designer's vision...

Holy Ship! is an annual electronic dance music (EDM) festival previously held aboard a 4,000+ capacity cruise ship, with two back to back sailings leaving...

completed in 1994, but technical difficulties delayed the opening of the ship lift for four more years. Longtan dam boat lift, capacity to lift vessels...

sea trials. It is the period when all the remaining construction of the ship is completed and readied for delivery to her owners. Since most of the fitting-out...

The ship's cat has been a common feature on many trading, exploration, and naval ships dating to ancient times. Cats have been brought on ships for many...

ammunition ship is an auxiliary ship specially configured to carry ammunition, usually for naval ships and aircraft. An ammunition ship's cargo handling...

Ship registration is the process by which a ship is documented and given the nationality of the country to which the ship has been documented. The nationality...

Yakhont (Russian: Яхонт; English: ruby), is a Soviet/Russian supersonic anti-ship cruise missile developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a ramjet version of...

ship HMS Flirt were constructed to provide small, fast escort vessels with hulls shaped like a cutter, rather than the more seaworthy but slower ship-sloop...

Sparrows Point, were also built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. All three ships were brought to the Great Lakes via the Mississippi and Illinois rivers...

Ship Ahoy or Ship Ahoy! may refer to: Ship Ahoy (film), a 1942 American musical-comedy film Ship Ahoy (album), a 1973 album by The O'Jays "Ship Ahoy!...

generic term with two distinct applications: the IMO ship identification number is a unique ship identifier; or, the IMO company and registered owner...

The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on, is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner,...

chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation. It is used to determine...

one of the most accessible shipwrecks of the Graveyard of the Pacific. The ship was named after Peter Iredale, who not only owned the vessel as part of his...

to Nordström & Thulin for use on Estline's Tallinn–Stockholm route. The ship's sinking on 28 September 1994, in the Baltic Sea between Sweden, Finland...

Janes Fighting Ships (known as Jane's Fighting Ships before 2020) is an annual reference book of each country's navy and coast guard, along with their...

Española). Similar in role to many aircraft carriers, the amphibious landing ship has a ski jump for STOVL operations, and is equipped with the McDonnell Douglas...

educated and qualified as engineering technicians. Ship engineers are responsible for propulsion and other ship systems such as: electrical power generation...

base in San Diego, California. It is the world's second largest surface ship naval base, after Naval Station Norfolk. Naval Base San Diego is the principal...

Téméraire-class ship of the French Navy America-class ship of the line, derived from the French ship America Grande America, an Italian cargo ship, sunken on...

Onomichi Dockyard Co., Ltd. [ja] (Onomichi Zosen) of Hiroshima, Japan, the ship was launched on April 25, 1963 as the Himeyuri Maru with a passenger capacity...

Seven Waves Away (alternate U.S. titles: Abandon Ship! and Seven Days From Now) is a 1957 British drama directed by Richard Sale and starring Tyrone Power...

Wasp class is a class of landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ships operated by the United States Navy. Based on the Tarawa class, with modifications...

cnearr, cnear; Old High German: gnarren) were the Norse merchant and cargo ships of the Viking Age, used by Vikings for long sea voyages and during the Viking...

the vessel) (PROY-sin) was a German steel-hulled, five-masted, ship-rigged sailing ship built in 1902 for the F. Laeisz shipping company and named after...

A ship class is a group of ships of a similar design. This is distinct from a ship type, which might reflect a similarity of tonnage or intended use. For...

States-flagged, combination of roll-on/roll-off and lift-on/lift-off cargo ship crewed by U.S. merchant mariners. Built in 1975 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock...

A weather ship, or ocean station vessel, was a ship stationed in the ocean for surface and upper air meteorological observations for use in weather forecasting...

A maritime pilot, marine pilot, harbor pilot, port pilot, ship pilot, or simply pilot, is a mariner who has specific knowledge of an often dangerous or...

oversee design, construction and repair of ships and ordnance. Established in 1940, Bureau of Ships (BuShips) succeeded the Bureau of Construction and...

Ship measurements consist of a multitude of terms and definitions specifically related to ships and measuring or defining their characteristics.[according...

Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last...

Gauss was a ship built in Germany for polar exploration, named after the mathematician and physical scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Purchased by Canada...

Adele (1952 ship), Swiss merchant ship Adèle (1800 brig), privateer brig, later an armed brig for the British East India Company, and a fire ship for the...

Ship arrest refers to the civil law procedure whereby a ship or similar marine vessel may be arrested by judicial process and held under state authority...

torpedo was the primary anti-ship weapon of submarines, destroyers and naval aircraft. Modern navies will usually not have ships dedicated to this one role...

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers:...

established the core ship design for the franchise. Enterprise footage was rotoscoped for its depiction in the animated spinoff. Ship: Refit USS Enterprise...

sank on the night of February 11, 1823, off the French Frigate Shoals. The ship's captain was George Pollard, Jr., former captain of the famous whaleship...

Death Ship may refer to: "Death Ship" (The Twilight Zone), TV series episode The Death Ship, a 1926 novel by B. Traven The Death Ship (1928 film), a short...

Batavia (1628 ship), a ship of the Dutch East India Company shipwrecked on her maiden voyage on the coast of Australia in 1629 Batavia (1995 ship), a seaworthy...

mountain pass in China HMS Friendship, five Royal Navy ships Friendship (ship), various sailing ships Friendship 500, a former name of the McBarge Fokker...

launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 as a Royal Mail Ship. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her running mate Mauretania...

after lead ships or the first ship commissioned. The Indonesian Navy has a traditional naming convention for its ships. Moreover, the ship's type and missions...

The ship James made several trips during the early 17th century Great Migration out of England to the New World. It is unclear how many ships were named...

enjoyed the distinction of being the largest ships in the world. Olympic was the largest British-built ship in the world for over 20 years until the commissioning...

British and eleven German ships sank, with a total of 9,823 casualties. Both sides claimed victory. The British lost more ships and over twice as many sailors...

A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught...

Sun Ship is a posthumously released free jazz album by tenor saxophonist John Coltrane recorded on August 26, 1965. Along with First Meditations, recorded...

there are 63 commissioned ships, including auxiliary ships, in the Royal Navy. However, increasingly many of the Royal Navy's ships are old and some have...

The Berar, named after a region in western India, was a sailing ship of 902 tons, owned by Tyser & Haviside and was built in 1863 by William Pile at Sunderland...

container ship, a class of large container ships operated by Orient Overseas Container Line Maersk M-class container ship, a class of large container ships operated...

A double hull is a ship hull design and construction method where the bottom and sides of the ship have two complete layers of watertight hull surface:...

journalist HMS Vernon, two ships and a training establishment of the British Royal Navy Vernon (1779 ship) Vernon (1839 ship) Vernon II Vernon III Vickers...

His (or Her) Majesty's Ship, abbreviated HMS and H.M.S., is the ship prefix used for ships of the navy in some monarchies. Derivative terms such as HMAS...

Turret ships were a 19th-century type of warship, the earliest to have their guns mounted in a revolving gun turret, instead of a broadside arrangement...

A tracking ship, also called a missile range instrumentation ship or range ship, is a ship equipped with antennas and electronics to support the launching...

A museum ship, also called a memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial...

The Black Ships (in Japanese: 黒船, romanized: kurofune, Edo period term) were the names given to both Portuguese merchant ships and American warships arriving...

The Shinan ship (also spelled "Sinan") was a 14th-century Chinese ship that sank near what are today the Shinan islands, South Korea, around the year...

A Chinese treasure ship (simplified Chinese: 宝船; traditional Chinese: 寶船; pinyin: bǎochuán, literally "gem ship") is a type of large wooden Chinese junk...

British slave ship Zong over several days from 29 November 1781. The William Gregson slave-trading syndicate, based in Liverpool, owned the ship as part of...

A collier is a bulk cargo ship designed or used to carry coal. Early evidence of coal being transported by sea includes use of coal in London in 1306....

The displacement or displacement tonnage of a ship is its weight. As the term indicates, it is measured indirectly, using Archimedes' principle, by first...

Aroya is a cruise ship operated by Aroya Cruises (Saudi Arabia). She was originally built for Star Cruises, but in the construction process she was transferred...

A ship canal is a canal especially intended to accommodate ships used on the oceans, seas, or lakes to which it is connected. Ship canals can be distinguished...

Christopher Ship is an English journalist and presenter, currently working as the ITV News Royal Editor since 2017. He was the former Deputy Political...

location. The platform is frequently mistaken for a capsized ocean transport ship. FLIP's last research cruise was in late 2017, with ONR ending its support...

River Clyde in Scotland for the Cunard Line, the ship was operated as a transatlantic liner and cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. She was laid up until converted...

is a Banner-class technical research ship, placed into service during World War II, then converted to a spy ship in 1967 by the United States Navy. She...

The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel...

that sailed the Peru–Panama trading route during the 16th century. This ship has earned a place in maritime history not only by virtue of being Sir Francis...

A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is an idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced...

ship of fools (Modern German: Das Narrenschiff; Latin: Stultifera Navis) is an allegory, first appearing in Book VI of Plato's Republic, about a ship...

Sapphire Princess is a cruise ship owned by Princess Cruises that entered service in 2004 as the sister ship of Diamond Princess. At the time she was one...

field referred to as bias. Degaussing was originally applied to reduce ships' magnetic signatures during World War II. Degaussing is also used to reduce...

It was intended for the first ship to offer true blue water naval aviation capability for the Soviet Union, as the ship would have been equipped with...

view, they made possible key components of today's global economy. Spanish ships had carried goods from the New World since Christopher Columbus's first...

A compartment is a portion of the space within a ship defined vertically between decks and horizontally between bulkheads. It is analogous to a room within...

needing capable ships. Foyn then purchased Cap Nor, made extensive repairs and after completion renamed the ship Antarctic. From 1893 the ship was deployed...

The Last Ship is an American action drama television series, loosely based on the 1988 novel of the same name by William Brinkley. The series premiered...

Wavertree is a historic iron-hulled sailing ship built in 1885. Now the largest wrought iron sailing vessel afloat, it is located at the South Street Seaport...

While paddles and sails are still used on some smaller boats, most modern ships are propelled by mechanical systems consisting of an electric motor or internal...

media related to Ship graveyards. A ship graveyard, ship cemetery or breaking yard is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay...

Technical research ships were used by the United States Navy during the 1960s to gather intelligence by monitoring, recording and analyzing wireless electronic...

decision soon. Its crew consists of 2,000 sailors and 1,000 airmen. The ship is estimated to be 316 m (1,036 ft 9 in) long, 76 m (249 ft 4 in) wide, and...

1989–2008 (sold to the Chilean Navy) Marlborough (1876 ship), British merchant sailing ship, 1876–1890 The Marlborough, an apartment building in Kalamazoo...

(モリソン号事件, Morison-gō Jiken) of 1837 occurred when the American merchant ship Morrison, headed by Charles W. King, was driven away from "sakoku" (isolationist)...

Ship of Fools is a 1965 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, set on board an ocean liner bound for Germany from Mexico in 1933. It stars a prominent...

of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor. The power plant heats water to produce steam for a turbine used to turn the ship's propeller...

Type 212CD Type 218 List of current Greek frigates List of decommissioned ships of the Hellenic Navy List of former equipment of the Hellenic Armed Forces...

A gambling ship is a ship stationed offshore in or transiting to international waters to evade local anti-gambling laws that is dedicated to games of chance...

training ship, specially designed in the 1990s. When completed in 2000, it was the largest wooden ship to be built in the UK for over 100 years. The ship was...

Stratus, formerly known as the Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon (FC/ASW) or FMAN/FMC in French (Futur Missile Anti-Navire/Futur Missile de Croisière), is...

slowly (far beyond the scale of a human lifetime) by making a generation ship. Hypothetical interstellar propulsion systems include nuclear pulse propulsion...

Several ancient Egyptian solar ships and boat pits were found in many ancient Egyptian sites. The most famous is the Khufu ship, which is now preserved in...

Duras, which was built in France for the French Indies Company in 1765. The ship was purchased by French authorities and placed at the disposal of American...

The central battery ship, also known as a centre battery ship in the United Kingdom and as a casemate ship in European continental navies, was a development...

The Octavius was a legendary 18th century ghost ship. According to the story, the three-masted schooner was found west of Greenland by the whaler Herald...

ships. This term may relate or refer to: List of longest ships List of longest naval ships List of longest wooden ships List of largest cruise ships List...

A dock landing ship (also called landing ship, dock or LSD) is an amphibious warfare ship with a well dock to transport and launch landing craft and amphibious...

almost all of the ships and ship modules in the game. NPC ships can be looted and salvaged for items and materials. Non-player created ships and equipment...

An Empire ship is a merchant ship that was given a name beginning with "Empire" in the service of the Government of the United Kingdom during and after...

Gambling Ship may refer to: Gambling ship, a ship that circumvents anti-gambling laws by sailing outside their jurisdiction Gambling Ship (1933 film),...

"Resurrection Ship" is a two-part episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. Part 1 aired originally on the Sci Fi Channel on January...

(II), built some decades later). All sailors survived when the original ship sank off Gothenburg, Sweden, on 12 September 1745, while approaching the...

contained four ships, but there was disagreement about the names. These were the other three ships according to him: São Rafael: The sister ship of São Gabriel...

KRI Dewaruci (sometimes spelled Dewa Ruci or Dewarutji) is a Class A tall ship and the only barquentine owned and operated by the Indonesian Navy. She is...

troop ship, hospital ship, minelayer, and escort. In order to prepare cadets in the best possible way for their duties in the active fleet, the ship was...

name of several ships. They are named for the transliteration of Russian: Москва, lit. 'Moscow'. Russian ship Moskva (1799) – a ship of the line in service...

1940s and is now a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the last battleship commissioned by the United States. The ship was assigned to the Pacific...

The Nemi ships were two ships, of different sizes, built under the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD on Lake Nemi. Although the...

(1884 ship), an iron sailing ship launched in 1884 SS Main, list of steamships with this name Main (A515), a modern German replenishment ship Short for...

Sea. Operations are conducted with the Iuventa, a ship that sails under the Dutch flag. This ship was seized in August 2017 after suspicion of cooperation...

The sailing ship effect is a phenomenon by which the introduction of a new technology to a market accelerates the innovation of an incumbent technology...

1914–1917. Many historians regard the voyage of the crew in a 22.5-foot (6.9 m) ship's boat through the "Furious Fifties" as the greatest small-boat journey ever...

re-creation of the Dove, an early 17th-century English trading ship, one of two ships (the other being The Ark) which made up the first expedition from...

Disney Wish is a cruise ship owned and operated by Disney Cruise Line, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. She is the fifth ship in the Disney Cruise...

commenced. Launched on 27 April 2002, they were proclaimed as the "Official Tall Ship Ambassadors of the City of Los Angeles" by Mayor James Hahn and witnessed...

116th River Ship Brigade (Izmail, Odesa Oblast) 112th Reconnaissance Ship Brigade (Lake Donuzlav (Mirnyy), Crimean Oblast) 37th Rescue Ship Brigade (Sevastopol...

operating a ship, boat or other craft on water. The Oxford Dictionary states that seamanship is "The skill, techniques, or practice of handling a ship or boat...

apparition reported near Block Island, Rhode Island, said to be the ghost ship of a lost 18th-century vessel named the Palatine. The folklore account is...

to the ship after her acquisition by the Canadian government, including "HMCS" (His Majesty's Canadian Ship), "DGS" (Dominion Government Ship), and "CGS"...

An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact. In the days of sail, piracy...

A motor ship or motor vessel is a ship that is propelled by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel engine. The names of motor ships are often...

Ghost Ship Games ApS is a Danish video game developer and publisher based in Copenhagen. Founded in 2016, it is best known for developing Deep Rock Galactic...

Ship collision is a type of maritime incident, a violent encounter involving moving ships. Ship collisions are of particular importance in marine accidents...

expensive maritime salvage projects in history. The surviving section of the ship and thousands of recovered artefacts are of significance as a Tudor period...

A ship's company or complement comprises all officers, non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel aboard a naval vessel, excluding civilians and...

A ship's wheel or boat's wheel is a device used aboard a ship, boat, submarine, or airship, with which a helmsman steers the vessel and controls its course...

Celebrity Apex is an Edge-class cruise ship operated by Celebrity Cruises, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Constructed at Chantiers de l'Atlantique...

Notorious is a replica fifteenth-century caravel. The ship took ten years to build, made entirely from reclaimed timber. It was launched at Martins Point...

The Stad Ship Tunnel (Norwegian: Stad skipstunnel) is a planned canal and tunnel to bypass the Stad peninsula in Stad Municipality in Vestland county,...

MV Britannia is a cruise ship of the P&O Cruises fleet. She was built by Fincantieri at its shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. Britannia is the flagship of...

This is a list of active French Navy ships. The French Navy consists of 168 active ships out of which nearly 100 vessels of the Force d'action navale...

Ship grounding or ship stranding is the impact of a ship on seabed or waterway side. It may be intentional, as in beaching to land crew or cargo, and careening...

Ships husbandry or ship husbandry is all aspects of maintenance, cleaning, and general upkeep of the hull, rigging, and equipment of a ship. It may also...

a Liberty ship, one of two still operational and one of three preserved as museum ships. As a Liberty ship, she operated as a merchant ship of the United...

The Fort ships were a class of 198 cargo ships built in Canada during World War II for use by the United Kingdom. They all had names prefixed with "Fort"...

Independence of the Seas is a Freedom-class cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International. The 15-deck ship was built in the Aker Finnyards Turku Shipyard...

environmentally friendly and the pure sailing experience. Elida V was built by SwedeShip Composite in Hunnebostrand and began to sail in September 2007 after five...

A pirate ship is a type of amusement ride based on pirate ships, consisting of an open, seated gondola (usually in the style of a pirate ship) which swings...

ship classes in service includes all combatant surface classes in service currently with navies or armed forces and auxiliaries in the world. Ships are...

(buzzard), is a class of anti-ship and anti-aircraft guided-missile destroyers of the Soviet and later Russian Navy. The ships are named after qualities,...

Several ships have been named Oromocto for the Oromocto River or its shipbuilding town in New Brunswick, Canada: Oromocto was a snow of 201 tons (bm)...

ship is a Viking 9th-century longship found in a burial mound at Gokstad in Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway. It is displayed at the Viking Ship Museum...

Янтарь) is a special purpose intelligence collection ship built for the Russian Navy. The ship has been operated by the Russian Navy's Main Directorate...

The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36-mile-long (58 km) inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Starting at the Mersey...

was a Paul Revere-class attack transport of the United States Navy. The ship was launched on 13 February 1954 as Prairie Mariner by the New York Shipbuilding...

both for sailing and rowing, swifter and more easily manœuvred than larger ships" and "(loosely) various kinds of foreign sailing and rowing vessels, as...

by Kevin Abstract from Arizona Baby, 2019 CSS Georgia (1862), merchant ship completed in 1862 and commissioned as a warship in 1863 CSS Georgia (1863)...

cruises were canceled, and the ship changed owners repeatedly for the next several decades. Every owner attempted to make the ship profitable, but she was aging...

Sørlandet is a Norwegian heritage tall ship and one of very few full-rigged ships in the world. She is the senior of the existing Norwegian built square...

assault ship Dock landing ship Amphibious transport dock Amphibious cargo ship Tank landing ship Command Ship Hospital ship Minesweeper Patrol ships Replenishment...

A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. Such a vessel is said...

Shipbuilding at Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, she was the last ship constructed there. The ship has been based out of Victoria, British Columbia. Designed...

formerly MV Ancerville, is a 1962 French liner later converted to a cruise ship. Now landlocked, she is the centerpiece of the Sea World development in Shekou...

Ship Simulator is a ship simulator, a type of vehicle simulation computer game which simulates maneuvering various ships in different environments, although...

The Ladby ship is a major ship burial at the village of Ladby near Kerteminde in Denmark. It is of the type also represented by the boat chamber grave...

The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978, or "MARPOL 73/78" (short for "marine...

a ship's construction. It is often marked with a ceremony attended by dignitaries from the shipbuilding company and the ultimate owners of the ship. Keel...

The Endurance-class tank landing ships (LST) are the largest class of ships in the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). They were designed and built by Singapore...

Ancient Rome had a variety of ships that played crucial roles in its military, trade, and transportation activities. Rome was preceded in the use of the...

evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship. Lifeboat drills are required by law on larger commercial ships. Rafts (liferafts) are also used. In the...

container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (e.g., rail, ship, aircraft, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing...

Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960. She sank off the coast...

A windmill ship, wind energy conversion system ship or wind energy harvester ship propels itself by use of a wind turbine to drive a propeller. They use...

freighter built in 1892 and used to haul bulk freight on the Great Lakes. The ship sank in Lake Superior just outside the harbor of Duluth, Minnesota, United...

century it was equipped with its own telegraph and timeball tower to enable ships to set their marine chronometers. The anchorage has depths down to 12 fathoms...

Armide-class diesel-electric attack submarine HMS Amazon, nine ships of the Royal Navy RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company SMS Amazone (1843)...

German emergency tow vessel CSS Baltic, an iron and cottonclad sidewheeler ship built in 1860 HMS Baltic (1808), Royal Navy cutter, formerly the Russian...

as coastal ships. The term also encompassed more flexible breastwork monitors, and was sometimes used as a generic term for any turreted ship. In the early...

The Tune ship (Tuneskipet) is a Viking ship exhibited in the Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy) in Bygdøy, Oslo. The Tune ship is of the karve...

strategic submarine force. It also operates a fleet of amphibious assault ships, guided missile destroyers, and stealth frigates amongst others. However...

two ways to place a model ship inside a bottle. The simpler way is to rig the masts of the ship and raise it up when the ship is inside the bottle. Masts...

the two ironclads was delayed by the Sino-French War of 1884–1885. The ships were armed with a main battery of four 12 in (305 mm) guns in a pair of...

maritime flag, also called a naval flag, is a flag designated for use on ships, boats, and other watercraft. Naval flags are considered important at sea...

slowing the ship. In the early days of sail, one discussed a hull's sheer in terms of how much "hang" it had. William Sutherland's The Ship-builders Assistant...

Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of German Emperor Wilhelm II, was the name ship of the Augusta Victoria series and the first of a new generation of luxury...

Fortune (Plymouth Colony ship) Fortune (1800 ship), French vessel Fortune (1805 ship), Spanish and British vessel HMS Fortune, ships of the Royal Navy, including:...

warfare ship of type landing craft tank that was built for the Turkish Navy in the early 1990s. The ship remains in service. The landing ship was laid...

Liverpool to New York on 30 May 1914. She was given the title of Royal Mail Ship (RMS) like many other Cunard ocean liners since she carried the royal mail...

Gujarat. Because it is home to the Alang Ship Breaking Yard, Alang beaches are considered the world's largest ship graveyard. As of the 2001 Indian census...

MS Freedom of the Seas is a cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International. She is the namesake of Royal Caribbean's Freedom class, and can accommodate...

AntiShip Torpedo 53-51 AntiShip Torpedo 53-56 AntiShip Torpedo 53-57 AntiShip Torpedo 53-61 AntiShip Torpedo 53-65 AntiShip Torpedo 65-73 AntiShip Torpedo...

The Type C4 ships were the largest cargo ships built by the United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) during World War II. The design was originally developed...

In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a fourth-rate was a ship of the line with two gun decks which mounted between 46 and 60 guns. They served in all...

capital ship that did not carry sails, and the first which mounted the entire main armament on top of the hull rather than inside it. The ships were designed...

register tons, she was the largest ship ever operated by the White Star Line under its own flag and the largest ship in the world until completion of SS Normandie...

T., also referred to as a Chadburn, is a communications device used on a ship (or submarine) for the pilot on the bridge to order engineers in the engine...

enable a ship to navigate through sea ice. Some ice classes also have requirements for the ice-going performance of the vessel. Not all ships are built...

Austal Limited is an Australian-based global ship building company and defence prime contractor that specialises in the design, construction and support...

The roller ship was an unconventional and unsuccessful ship design of the late nineteenth century, which attempted to propel itself by means of large wheels...

Singles Chart. When re-released in 2005 as a double A-side with "Sink That Ship", it peaked at number 9 on the UK chart. Drummer Nick Hodgson used to DJ...

MV Freewinds is a former cruise ship operated by International Shipping Partners and owned by San Donato Properties, a company affiliated with the Church...

engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. Earlier ships that are driven by a paddle wheel under manual power are known as paddle...

The Vlora was a cargo ship built in 1960 in Ancona (Italy) that sailed under the Albanian flag until 1996. It is most famous for carrying tens of thousands...

Mafuta is a diamond-mining ship owned and operated by De Beers in the western coast of South Africa. Built in 1983 as Dock Express 20 for Dock Express...

Heemskerck 127 years earlier. In April 1770, Endeavour became the first European ship to reach the east coast of Australia, with Cook going ashore at what is now...

Wandilla was a steamship built in 1912 for the Adelaide Steamship Company. The ship operated on the Fremantle to Sydney run until 1915, when she was acquired...

The S.S. Grand View Point Hotel, also known as the Ship Hotel or Ship of the Alleghenies, was a historic hotel and roadside attraction in Juniata Township...

The Ship of State is an ancient and oft-cited metaphor, famously expounded by Plato in the Republic (Book 6, 488a–489d), which likens the governance of...