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 A. J. Goddard — American paddle steamer A Klondike Gold Rush era sternwheeler built for transporting men and supplies on the Upper Yukon River in Canada. She was not suited for the larger sections of the turbulent Yukon River, so instead she carried passengers and equipment across Lake Laberge. LAUNCHED: 1898 → FATE: Sank October 22, 1901. |
 (Another  ) Admiral, SS — American river steamboat (cruise ship; converted to diesel in 1974) Was the largest river cruise ship in the world, sailing the Mississippi River from St. Louis. In 1979 she was converted to a land-based casino. She started out as the side-wheeled steel hulled steamboat, the Albatross, then became the Admiral in the 1940s. LAUNCHED: 1907 → FATE: Dismantled and sold for scrap in 2011. |
 (Another ) African Queen — American steamboat Boat used in the 1951 movie The African Queen, an adventure set during World War I, starring Humprey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. From 1912 to 1968, she shuttled cargo and passengers across Lake Albert in Africa. The steam engine in the movie was a prop and its original diesel engine was hidden under crates of gin and other cargo. LAUNCHED: 1912 → FATE: Refurbished to service as a tourist boat in Key Largo, Florida. |
 Alabama, CSS — American Confederate screw sloop-of-war A successful commerce raider that attacked Union merchant and naval ships during the American Civil War. She boarded nearly 450 vessels and captured or burned 65 Union merchant ships. LAUNCHED: 1862, July 18 → FATE: Sunk in June 1864 by USS Kearsarge at the Battle of Cherbourg. |
 Albacore, USS — American submarine Research submarine that pioneered the teardrop hull of modern submarines. For more than two decades she provided the US Navy information and experience in making submarines faster, quieter, safer and more agile. LAUNCHED: 1953, August 18 → FATE: Decommissioned December 9, 1972. When being towed to a permanent display site in April 1984, she became stuck in the mud of Portsmouth Harbor. In 1985, she was dedicated there as a memorial. |
 (Another ) Albert M. Boe — American liberty ship Last Liberty ship built. Though currently landlocked, she is still in use as the home of Trident Seafoods. The ship was withdrawn from the reserve fleet on 19 August 1964 and converted for use as the fish cannery ship Star of Kodiak. LAUNCHED: 1945, September 18 → FATE: Converted to a fish cannery ship in 1964. |
 Alligator — American submarine First U.S. Navy submarine. The first American submarine, called Turtle (1776), never served in the U.S. Navy. The first commissioned U.S. submarine was the USS Holland in 1862. LAUNCHED: 1862, May 18 → FATE: Sank in bad weather off Cape Hatteras April 2, 1863. |
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 (Another ) Alvin, DSV — American research vessel; submersible First Deep Submergence Vehicle (DSV) able to dive to 4,500 meters or 14,800 feet. She was lost October of 1968 when she accidentally sank in 1500 meters of water, but was recovered in August of 1969 and refurbished. LAUNCHED: 1964, June 18 → FATE: Still in service. |
 America — American racing yacht; schooner Won the Royal Yacht Squadron's 53 mile regatta around the Isle of Wight, August 22, 1851. The international sailing trophy, America's Cup, is named after her. During the American Civil War, she served in the Union blockading squadron off Charleston, then after the war as a training ship at the Naval Academy. LAUNCHED: 1851, May 18 → FATE: In disrepair, her remains were burned in 1945 at Annapolis. |
 American Queen — American river paddle steamboat; stern-wheeler Largest steamboat ever built, as of 2012. In 2012 she participated for the first time in the Great Steamboat Race and came in second. LAUNCHED: 1995 → FATE: Still in operation on the Mississippi River. |
 Ancon, SS — American steamship First ship to officially transit the Panama Canal on August, 15 1914. (Sister ship Cristobal made the first unofficial transit on August 3, 1914). She was acquired by the US Navy from the US Army for troop transport just after the end of World War I. LAUNCHED: 1902 → FATE: As the USS Ancon (ID-1467), she was decommissioned on July 25, 1919. |
 Andrea Gail — American fishing vessel Lost at sea off the coast of Massachusetts with six crew during The Perfect Storm of 1991. The tragedy was the basis of the 1997 book by Sebastian Junger and the 2000 movie The Perfect Storm. LAUNCHED: 1978 → FATE: Lost at sea October 28, 1991. |
 Argonaut — American cabin cruiser The vessel used in the American TV series Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges about a free-lance scuba diver, airing 1958-1961. Several cabin cruisers were utilized in filming. One notable model was the Trojan Express custom built by Trojan Yachts in 1960. LAUNCHED: 1958 → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Ariel — English clipper ship Famous for almost winning The Great Tea Race of 1866, an unofficial race between Fuzhou, China and London. On September 6, 1866, the Taeping docked twenty minutes ahead of Ariel. LAUNCHED: 1865 → FATE: Went missing in early 1872. |
 (Another ) Arizona, USS — American battleship The sunken ship lies in Pearl Harbor with a memorial above it honoring the lost of 1177 crew. The sunken ship continues to leak about a quart of oil per day into the harbor. LAUNCHED: 1915, June 18 → FATE: Sunk during the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. |
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 Artemis — American sloop The ship on which Claire and Jamie Fraser travel across the Atlantic in pursuit of the Bruja as seen in season 3 of the TV series Outlander. The ship was never in the water. Green screen was used to fill in ocean background. LAUNCHED: 2017, for the TV series → FATE: inconclusive. |
 (Another ) Arthur Foss — American tugboat One of the oldest wooden-hulled tugboats afloat in the United States. She was cast by MGM to play in the 1933 movie Tugboat Annie. LAUNCHED: 1887 → FATE: Renovated and on display at Seattle's South Lake Union Park. |
 B-39 — Russian foxtrot-class submarine The Soviet Navy's largest non-nuclear submarines.. In 2012, she was used as a prop in the movie Phantom. Another B-39 is rusting in England (see Black Widow). LAUNCHED: 1967, April 18 → FATE: Decommissioned April 1994; now a museum ship at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, California. |
 Balao, USS — American submarine Featured as the "pink submarine" in the 1959 movie Operation Petticoat, co-starring with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. She served ten patrols in World War II, then in training exercises afterwards. Her conning tower and periscope are on display at the U.S.Navy Museum in Washington, D.C. LAUNCHED: 1942, October 18 → FATE: Sunk as a target off Florida on September 6, 1963. |
 Ballantrae, USS — American Town-class destroyer A fictional ship in the movie Gift Horse on a one-way mission in World War II to destroy a German-held dry dock in France; based on HMS Campbeltown and the St Nazaire Raid. The USS Twiggs was turned over to the Royal Navy in 1940 to become HMS Leamington. From 1944-1949, she served under the Russian flag, then was returned to Great Britain in 1950 where she appeared in the movie. LAUNCHED: 1951, movie release; USS Twiggs launched September 1918 → FATE: After appearing in the movie, she was scrapped at Newport, Wales in 1951. |
 Becuna, USS — American submarine Designated a National Historic Landmark for her service in World War II, for which she earned four battle stars. She is credited with having sunk two Japanese tankers totaling 3,888 tons. LAUNCHED: 1944, January 30 → FATE: She serves as a museum ship at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
 Belinda, USS — American attack transport The World War II ship in the 1956 movie Away All Boats.. She was portrayed by the USS Randall, an attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1956. LAUNCHED: 1956 → FATE: The actual ship, Randall, was scrapped in 1972. |
 Belle of Louisville — American steamboat, paddle, stern-wheeler Oldest continually operating river steamboat in the United States. She competes every year in the Kentucky Derby Festival event The Great Steamboat Race. LAUNCHED: 1914 → FATE: Restored in 1964, still in use at Louisville, Kentucky. |
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 Birmingham, USS — American scout cruiser, Chester-class The first airplane takeoff from a ship in history in 1910. During World War I, she patrolled along the northeast U.S. coast until 14 June 1917 when she sailed from New York as part of the escort for the first US troop convoy to France. LAUNCHED: 1907, May 29 → FATE: Sold for scrap, 13 May 1930. |
 Birthday Present — American super-yacht Super-yacht used int the movie Overboard. The custom motor yacht was actually the Aspen Alternative built in 2010 by Trinity Yachts LAUNCHED: 2018, movie release; 2010 yacht built → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Black Pearl — American yacht The world's largest sailing yacht capable of running carbon free. Her sails consist of freestanding rotating masts with rigid yards that acts as square rigs. She can accommodate 12 passengers and features an on-deck Jacuzzi, swimming platform, and a tender garage. LAUNCHED: 2016 → FATE: In service. |
 Bonhomme Richard, USS — American frigate Warship commanded by John Paul Jones. She defeated HMS Serapis in the Battle of Flamborough Head. LAUNCHED: 1766 → FATE: Sank in battle off the coast of Yorkshire September 25, 1779. |
 Buford, USAT — American cargo/passenger ship Used to deport 249 non-citizens of the U.S. to Russia because of their alleged anarchist political beliefs; nicknamed the Soviet Ark.. In 1906, rescued over 600 passengers and crew from the SS Mongolia. In 1921, rescued 65 passengers and crew from the inferno of the Japanese steam freighter Tokuyo Maru. Used by Buster Keaton for his film The Navigator. LAUNCHED: 1890, August 29 → FATE: Scrapped in late 1929. |
 C.A. Thayer — American three-masted schooner Last survivor of the schooners in the West Coast lumber trade. In 1912, she was converted for use in the Alaskan salt-salmon trade. In 1984, she was designated a National Historic Landmark. LAUNCHED: 1895 → FATE: She made her final voyage in 1950. After several restorations, she now is on exhibit at Hyde Stree Pier, San Francisco. |
 Caine, USS — American destroyer minesweeper The vessel captained by Queeg in the 1951 book The Cain Mutiny and the 1954 movie. In the movie, the USS Thompson (DD-627) was used as the USS Caine. LAUNCHED: 1951, novel, 1954 movie → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Cairo, USS — American ironclad gunboat First ship sunk by a naval mine and first vessel of the City class ironclads. Served with the Army's Western Gunboat Fleet during the American Civil War. Remnants of the gunboat are in a museum in the Vicksburg National Military Park. LAUNCHED: 1861 → FATE: Sunk by a naval mine in the Yazoo Riveron December 12, 1862. |
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 (Another ) Calypso, RV — American minesweeper built for the British; refitted for research Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau sailed her as a mobile laboratory for field research. During World War II she served as a minesweeper and carried advanced equipment, including mini submarines. LAUNCHED: 1941, March 21, converted in 1950 → FATE: Sank in 1996, raised, neglected, and now being restored in Brittany. |
 Campbeltown, HMS — American Wickes-class destroyer A most famous ship in the St. Nazaire Raid in 1942 when, packed with explosives, she was rammed into a German port and detonated. The ship and the raid were depicted in the movie Gift Horse. (See Ballantrae, HMS) LAUNCHED: 1919, January 2 as USS Buchanan; given to Britain and renamed in 1940 → FATE: Destroyed March 28, 1942 in the Saint Nazaire Raid, World War II. |
 Carroll A. Deering — American five-masted commercial schooner A famous maritime mystery after she was found with her crew of 11 missing. Theories of her demise include piracy, mutiny, hurricane, and paranormal events. Nine other ships also disappeared without a trace in that same area at about the same time. LAUNCHED: 1919 → FATE: Found wrecked off Cape Hatteras on January 31, 1921; scuttled on March 4 that year. |
 Cassin Young, USS — American destroyer in World War II One of only four surviving Fletcher-class destroyers still afloat. Named for Captain Cassin Young (1894-1942), who was killed in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. LAUNCHED: 1943, September 18 → FATE: Docked at the Boston Navy Yard as a museum ship as a museum ship. |
 (Another ) Central America, SS — American paddle steamboat, stern-wheeler; three-masted Sank in a hurricane in 1857, along with 400 passengers and crew and 30,000 pounds of gold. She operated between Central America and the eastern coast of the United States during the 1850s. LAUNCHED: 1852, October 18 → FATE: Sank on September 12, 1857 about 160 miles east of Cape Hattera. |
 (Another ) Charles W. Morgan — American whaling ship World's oldest surviving merchant vessel; America's only surviving wooden whaleship. After a 5-year, multi-million dollar restoration, she set sail again, July, 2013. LAUNCHED: 1841 → FATE: On exhibit at the Mystic Seaport museum in Mystic, Connecticut. |
 (Another ) Claremore Queen — American steamboat A movie about a con man enters his steamboat in race in the 1890s. Other boat seen in "Another IMAGE". . The movie was Will Roger's last and was released after he was killed in an airplane crash 1935. LAUNCHED: 1933, movie release → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Clermont — American river steamboat First enduring and financially successful steamboat, running on the Hudson River. She was never known as Clermont at the time, but North River Steamboat. After it was lengthened and refitted in 1808 at Clermont, NY, it was named the North River. LAUNCHED: 1807, August 18 → FATE: Retired in 1814, then scrapped. |
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 Clotilda — American two-masted schooner Last known slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States. The shipwreck was discovered in early 2019. LAUNCHED: 1855 → FATE: Burned and sunk in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta probably in 1860. |
 (Another ) Cole, USS — American aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer In the news because of a suicide attack against it on October 12, 2000. Seventeen American sailors were killed in the incident while harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden. LAUNCHED: 1995, February 18 → FATE: Still in service. |
 Columbia Rediviva — American full-rigged 3 masted sailing ship First American ship to circumnavigate the globe. In 1792, Captain Robert Gray in command, she was the first ship to enter the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. LAUNCHED: 1787 → FATE: Salvaged in 1806. |
 (Another ) Conception, MV — American dive boat One of the worst maritime disaster in California with the loss of 34 passengers. The boat had been refurbished at a cost of more than $1 million following an incident in 2005 when it had been stolen and run aground. LAUNCHED: 1981 → FATE: Caught fire and eventually sank off the coast of Santa Cruz Island, California, September 2, 2019. |
 Constellation, USS — American sloop-of-war The last sail-only warship designed and built by the U.S. Navy. This flagship of the USN African Squadron from 1859-1861 disrupted the African slave trade off the coast of Africa. LAUNCHED: 1854, August 18 → FATE: On display at Annapolis, Maryland as a museum ship. |
 Constitution, SS — American ocean liner Because of her post-war modernity, the ship was featured in the 1957 movie An Affair to Remember and in several TV series, such as the situation comedy I Love Lucy. She and her sister-ship, SS Independence, were innovative ocean liners with an informal, yet luxurious, atmosphere uncommon in passenger ships prior to World War II. LAUNCHED: 1950, September 18 → FATE: Sank November 17, 1997 while under tow to be scrapped north of the Hawaiian Islands. Sister-ship, SS Indepedence, suffered a worst demise. |
 Constitution, USS — American three-masted heavy frigate Oldest commissioned ship afloat in the world. She was larger and more heavily armed than the standard frigates of the period. LAUNCHED: 1797, October 18 → FATE: On display at the Boston Navy Yard as a museum ship. |
 Cotopaxi, SS — American bulk carrier She disappeared on a voyage from Charleston, S.C., to Havana, Cuba; none of the 32 people on board were ever seen again. She became part of the legend of the Bermuda Triangle even though she was found outside that area. In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, aliens are responsible for the ship's disappearance. LAUNCHED: 1918, November 15 → FATE: Lost 35 miles off St. Augustine in Florida, December, 1925. |
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 Cusk, USS — American submarine The first submarine to launch a guided missile from her deck. She appeared in the 1950 movie The Flying Missile as the USS Bluefin. LAUNCHED: 1945, July 18 → FATE: Sold for scrap June 26, 1972. |
 (Another ) David, CSS — American Confederate torpedo boat A cigar-shaped boat with explosives on the end of a spar projecting forward from her bow. Surface vessel designed to operate very low in the water, resembling a submarine. LAUNCHED: 1863 → FATE: Unknown. |
 (Another ) Demologos — American paddle steamers with a catamaran hull First warship to be propelled by a steam engine. Designed by Robert Fulton, with the steam engine between a double hull, no other ship like her was ever built. (See "Another IMAGE" for cross view of her structure.) LAUNCHED: 1815 → FATE: Accidentally blown up in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on June 4, 1829. |
 Dolpin, USS — American V-class submarine The penultimate design in the V-boat series and star in the movie Submarine D-1. The movie hi-lights the use of the Momsen lung for emergency submarine rescues as well as the training tank structures of New London, Connecticut submarine base. LAUNCHED: 1931, March 18 → FATE: Broken up in August 1946. |
 Drum, USS — American Gato-class submarine She is the oldest of Gato-class submarine still in existence, having received a total of 12 battle stars for her World War II service. She sank 15 ships for a total of 80,580 tons of Japanese shipping, eighth highest of all US submarines. LAUNCHED: 1941, May 18 → FATE: Currently a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama, at Battleship Memorial Park. |
 (Another ) Eastland, SS — American steamship, passenger Largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. On the morning of July 24, 1915, the ship, being top-heavy, rolled over while docked in the Chicago River, killing 844 passengers and crew. LAUNCHED: 1903, May 18 → FATE: Sunk on July 24, 1915; raised, converted to a gunboat, renamed USS Wilmette February, 1918; sold for scrap in October of 1946. |
 Edmund Fitzgerald, SS — American lake cargo ship, freighter; ore carrier Sank suddenly during a gale storm on Lake Superior without a distress signal. All 29 crew members were lost gaining it the appellation "Titanic of the Great Lakes." The wreck was found 17 miles from Whitefish Bay 4 days later. LAUNCHED: 1958, June 18 → FATE: Lost in a storm on November 10, 1975. |
 El Faro, SS — American container ship (cargo ship) The worst maritime disaster for a U.S.-flagged vessel in decades, resulting in the deaths of 33 crew. In 2003, prior to the invasion of Iraq in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the vessel, then named Northern Lights, ferried U.S. Marines and supplies from California to Kuwait. LAUNCHED: 1974, November 18 → FATE: Lost at sea with all hands on October 1, 2015 after losing propulsion near the eyewall of Hurricane Joaquin. |
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 Eldridge, USS — American destroyer escort Famed as part of an alleged military experiment of cloaking ships invisible and carried out by the U.S. Navy at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.. A 1984 movie of the incident, The Philadelphia Experiment, presented a fictionalized version of the incident. LAUNCHED: 1943, July 25 → FATE: Decommisioned and scrapped November 11, 1999. |
 Empress of China — American three-masted, square-rigged sailing ship First American ship to sail from the newly independent United States to China, opening what is known today as the Old China Trade. She left New York harbor on Washington's birthday, February 22, 1784 and returned to New York after a round voyage of fourteen months and twenty-four days. LAUNCHED: 1783 → FATE: Unknown. |
 Enterprise, USS — American aircraft carrier World's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier and the eighth U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. As one of the oldest carriers in the fleet, she was deactivated in 2012 at which time a Gerald R. Ford class carrier, CVN-80, will inherit the name Enterprise. LAUNCHED: 1960, September 18 → FATE: Put in storage in 2017. |
 Eos — American three-masted Bermuda rigged schooner, built in Germany The largest sailing yacht in the world with an overall length of 305 feet or 92.92 meters. With much of its length in the bowsprit, the length at the waterline is less than the Maltese Falcon. LAUNCHED: 2006 → FATE: Still in service. |
 Essex — American barque; whale ship, a three-masted Basis of Nathaniel Philbrick's book In the Heart of the Sea and the movie as well as the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 classic novel Moby-Dick. She left Nantucket in 1819 on a whaling voyage in the South Pacific with 21 aboard. It was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean. Only two men survived. LAUNCHED: 1800, approx. → FATE: Sunk in the southern Pacific November 20, 1820. |
 Eureka — American paddle steamboat, stern-wheeler, ferry The largest wooden passenger ferry ever built, certified to carry 3,500 people. She was the last example of the fleet of ferry boats carrying passengers and vehicles across the San Francisco Bay. LAUNCHED: 1890 → FATE: Preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. |
 (Another ) Exodus 1947 — American packet steamer The ship carried 4,500 Jewish immigrants from France to British Mandatory Palestine on July 11, 1947. The incident was the topic of the 1960 movie Exodus.. Until 1942, she carried passengers and freight between Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland. LAUNCHED: 1928 → FATE: After efforts to restore her, a fire destroyed her in 1952 while tied up in Haifa. The wreck was towed out past the ship lanes and scuttled. Two later attempts to raise her for salvage failed. |
 Exxon Valdez — American oil tanker Spilled millions of gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound. Over her life, she was renamed several times ending up in 2011 as Oriental Nicety. In 2010, as Dong Fang Ocean, she colided with Aali, a cargo ship, causing severe damage to both ships. LAUNCHED: 1986, October 18 → FATE: Beached for dismantling August 20, 2012. |
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 Faith, SS — American Concrete cargo steamer The first concrete ship built in the United States and the largest in the world at the time at 336.5 feet (102.6 meters) and 8000 tons. The first successfully launched cement ship was the 84 foot-400 ton Namsenfjord on August 2, 1917, N.K. Fougner of Norway. LAUNCHED: 1918, March 14 → FATE: After being cracked during a Gulf storm in 1921, she was towed to Cuba for use as a breakwater. |
 Fenian Ram — American submarine The second experimental submarine built by Irish-born inventor and educator John P. Holland. In 1916, she was exhibited in Madison Square Garden to raise funds for victims of the Easter Rising. LAUNCHED: 1881 → FATE: On exhibit at the Paterson Museum in Paterson, New Jersey. |
 (Another ) Floating Theater — American caravel The first deliberately-planned showboat, created by British-born actor William Chapman, Sr.; replaced by a new steamboat with a stage and named Steamboat Theatre. In 1914, circus actors James Adams and his wife launched the James Adams Floating Theatre, a showboat that would tour the Chesapeake Bay. LAUNCHED: 1831, and 1836 → FATE: Both unknown. |
 Flying Cloud — American clipper ship The most famous clipper ship, she set a world record (until 1989) for the fastest passage from New York to San Francisco in 89 days, more than 16,000 miles. The ship's navigator was a woman, Eleanor Creesy wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who skippered Flying Cloud. LAUNCHED: 1851 → FATE: Went aground at Saint John, New Brunswick June 19, 1874. |
 (Another ) Flying Enterprise — American cargo ship in World War II, then a tramp steamer Subject of intense deep-sea diving and salvage. In 1960, a portion of the cargo was salvaged by an Italian company. In 2001, a team of Danish and British divers re-discovered the lost shipwreck almost 50 years after she had sunk. LAUNCHED: 1944, March → FATE: Sank south of Cornwall, England January 10, 1952. |
 (Another ) General Slocum — American river paddle steamboat, side-wheeler Caught fire and burned to the water line in New York's East River on June 15, 1904 killing 1,021 people. She was named after Major General Henry Warner Slocum, 1827-94. LAUNCHED: 1891, April 18 → FATE: The remains were recovered and converted into a barge, which sank in a storm in 1911. |
 Ghost — American schooner; a seal-hunting ship The setting for the 1941 movie The Sea Wolf, starring Edward G. Robinson and Ida Lupino. The story is based on the novel The Sea Wolf by Jack London. LAUNCHED: 1941 → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Ghost, stealth ship — American super-cavitating stealth ship A prototype ship for stealth operations designed by a private American company, Juliet Marine Systems. Designed to travel above the water's surface, her main hull is positioned atop by two long and narrow struts. LAUNCHED: 2009, (trials in 2011) → FATE: Its future is uncertain. |
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 Glomar Explorer — American deep sea research vessel Built for a secret operation by the CIA to recover a sunken Soviet submarine, K-129 which was lost in April, 1968. She was converted into a deep sea oil drilling ship in 1997. LAUNCHED: 1972, November 18 → FATE: Currently operates as the GSF Explorer. |
 Grandcamp, SS — American liberty ship Origin of the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of the largest non-nuclear explosions. The initial blast and subsequent fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities killed at least 581 people, wounding over 5,000. LAUNCHED: 1942, November → FATE: Exploded and destroyed April 16, 1947. |
 Great Republic — American clipper, four-masted The largest wooden clipper ship ever constructed, requiring 1,500,000 feet of pine, 336½ tons of iron, and 56 tons of copper. In 1853, fire sank her; but she was salvaged and rebuilt as a three deck vessel and went on to set transatlantic speed records. LAUNCHED: 1853, October 18 → FATE: Abandoned during a hurricane off Bermuda March 5, 1872. |
 Halibut, USS — American attack submarine Unique nuclear-powered guided missile submarine, adapted for spying operations. In the 1970s, she was used on secret underwater espionage missions by the US against the Soviet Union including the underwater tapping of a Soviet communication line (see Operation Ivy Bells). LAUNCHED: 1959, January 9 → FATE: Moth-balled 1976, dismantled in 1994. |
 Hannah, USS — American schooner The first armed American naval vessel of the American Revolution and is claimed to be the founding vessel of the US Navy. The city of Beverly, Massachusetts and the town of Marblehead, Massachusetts each claim to have been the home port of the schooner. LAUNCHED: 1775, September 2 → FATE: Unknown. |
 Hannibal, USS — American collier A target ship in the Chesapeake Bay. In 1966, a old WW II Liberty ship, the American Mariner, was made a target ship, and, by tradition, was named Hannibal. LAUNCHED: 1898, April → FATE: Sunk as target practice March 1, 1945. |
 HD-4 — American hydrofoil An early research hydrofoil watercraft developed by the Alexander Graham Bell. She set a world marine speed record of 70.86 miles per hour (114.04 km/h), that stood for almost a year. LAUNCHED: 1919 → FATE: Dismantled in 1921, laying for decades on the shore at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia. |
 Henry B. Smith, SS — American lake cargo ship, freighter; steel-hulled, propeller-driven One of several ships lost in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. The crew of 25 were lost and the wreck has not been located as of 2017. LAUNCHED: 1906, May → FATE: Foundered and sank near Marquette Michigan, November 10, 1913. |
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 Hewell, USS — American cargo ship Featured in the 1955 movie Mister Roberts, starring Jack Lemmon. For the movie, small alterations were made including the palm trees on deck. LAUNCHED: 1944 → FATE: Scrapped 1973. |
 Higgins boat — American troop landing craft (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP) Troop landing craft crucial to the Allied victories in World War II. Designed by Andrew Higgins, nearly 20,000 were build. LAUNCHED: 1935 → FATE: Only a few survive and are being restored. |
 Holland, USS (SS-1) — American submarine First modern commissioned submarine for the US Navy. She proved valuable for experimental purposes in collecting data for submarines under construction or contemplation and for training officers and enlisted men. LAUNCHED: 1897, May 17 → FATE: On display in a park in Paterson, New Jersey until sold for scrap, 1932. |
 Honey Fitz — American yacht Presidential yacht was renamed after John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, maternal grandfather of President John F. Kennedy. The yacht saw service during World War II as a picket ship off Fire Island, New York. She also served as a training ship for submarine crews. LAUNCHED: 1931 → FATE: Still in service as a pleasure boat. |
 Houston, USS (CA-30) — American cruiser, Northampton-class During the Battle of Sundra Strait, she put up a valiant effort an against overwhelming Japanese offense. In the 1930s, she made several special cruises, several with President Franklin Roosevelt aboard. LAUNCHED: 1929, September 7 → FATE: Sunk by a torpedo, 1 March 1942. |
 Hunley, H.L. — American Confederate submarine During the American Civil War, the first submarine to sink a ship. She a ttacked by embedding a barbed spar torpedo into the foe's hull and detonating it as she backed away. LAUNCHED: 1863, July → FATE: Sank after attacking and sinking USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, February 17, 1864. |
 Ideal X, SS — American cargo ship (container ship) First container ship. She was converted from a World War II T-2 oil tanker named Potrero Hills by a trucking executive named Malcolm McLean. LAUNCHED: 1944, December → FATE: Scrapped in Japan in 1967. |
 Independence, USS — American trimaran, small assault transport ship A versatile multi-hulled U.S. Navy ship designed for high speed. The ship is a trimaran design that can make more than 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph). LAUNCHED: 2008, April 18 → FATE: Currently in service. |
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 Indiana, USS (BB-1) — American battleship First battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time. Decommissioned in 1919, her name was changed to Coast Battleship # 1. She was subsequently used as a target in ordnance tests and sank as a result. LAUNCHED: 1893, February 28 → FATE: Sunk as target on November 1, 1920 |
 Indianapolis, USS — American Portland-class cruiser Last U.S. ship sunk by enemy in World War II; greatest loss of life at sea in the U.S. Navy's history. Four days after delivering the 1st atomic bomb to Tinian, she was torpedoed and sank with 300 crew. The 900 survivors faced exposure, dehydration, and shark attacks until 4 days later only 317 were rescued. LAUNCHED: 1931, November 18 → FATE: Sunk by a Japanese submarine July 30, 1945. |
 Intrepid, USS — American aircraft carrier; Essex-class In World War II, served extensively in the Pacific; later recovered capsules in space program. Upgraded several times; first American carrier to launch aircraft with steam catapults. One of more than a dozen English and American ships and boats named Intrepid. LAUNCHED: 1943, April 18 → FATE: Currently a museum ship docked at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. |
 (Another ) Iowa, USS — American fast battleship First of her class, the last battleship in active service in the world. During a gunnery exercise, on April 19, 1989, an explosion ripped through a gun turret, killing 47 crewmen. LAUNCHED: 1942, August 18 → FATE: Anchored at San Pedro as a museum ship. |
 John Adams, USS — American frigate She participated in the raid on Combahee Ferry that Harriet Tubman, the former slave and Union operative, organized with Union colonel Montgomery. She fought in the Quasi-War, the First and Second Barbary Wars, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. LAUNCHED: 1799, October → FATE: Sold October 1867 to the British to use as the Hong Kong Water Police Headquarters. In February 1884, she caught fire and was lost. |
 John W. Brown, SS — American liberty ship One of two still operational and one of three preserved as museum ships. After making 12 troop and cargo voyages across the Atlantic during World War II, she served as a training ship from 1946 to 1982. LAUNCHED: 1942, September 7 → FATE: After restoration, now a floating museum stationed in the Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore, Maryland. |
 Joyita — American luxury yacht, outfitted as a yard patrol boat Found adrift in the South Pacific, her passengers and crew mysteriously missing in 1955. She is sometimes referred to as the "Mary Celeste of the South Pacific." She has been the subject of several narrations offering explanations ranging from rational to supernatural. LAUNCHED: 1931 → FATE: Broken up near Ovalau, Fiji in the 1970s. |
 (Another ) Kalakala — American ferry The first streamlined ferry with Art Deco styling and luxurious amenities served in Puget Sound from 1935 to 1967. From 1926 to 1933, she sailed as the ferry Peralta; after a fire, the superstructure was rebuilt in modern style. LAUNCHED: 1926, April as Peralta; relaunch 1934 → FATE: Moored at Tacoma, Washington. |
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 Kingston II — American tugboat She assisted the launch of several U.S. Navy submarines including Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine. Her ceremonial duties at the museum have included leading river parades of antique boats and welcoming visiting vessels from other nations. LAUNCHED: 1937 → FATE: On exhibit at Mystic Seaport Museum at Mystic, Connecticut. |
 (Another ) Kirk, USS — American destroyer escort, Knox-class She was sent to help evacuate Americans and fleeing refugees from South Vietnam, caring out one of the most significant humanitarian missions in U.S. military history.. During the evacuation, she was a makeshift landing pad for helicopters flown by South Vietnamese pilots fleeing with families and friends on board. LAUNCHED: 1971, September 25 → FATE: On 29 September 1999, the ship was purchased by Taiwan and renamed Fen Yang. |
 Laffey, USS — American Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer During the battle of Okinawa, she withstood the greatest kamikaze air attack in history, losing 32 killed and 71 wounded. Laffey was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1986, the only remaining US-owned Sumner-class destroyer LAUNCHED: 1943, November 21 → FATE: After WWII, she was repaired and continued to serve until decommissioned March 9, 1975. Laffey is currently a museum ship at Patriots Point in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. |
 Langley, USS — American aircraft carrier First American aircraft carrier and U.S. Navy's first turbo-electric-powered ship. Following a conversion in 1936 to a seaplane tender, she fought in World War II. LAUNCHED: 1911, built as a collier converted in 1920 → FATE: Attacked and badly damaged by Japanese planes, she was scuttled, February 27, 1942. |
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 Liberté, SS — German ocean liner; then American war prize; then French owned Featured prominently in the movie The French Line, starring Jane Russell. She was taken as a US war prize at the end of World War II, then used to transport US servicemen back to the states, and finally turned over to the French as war reparations. LAUNCHED: 1928, August 18 → FATE: Retired in 1961 and scrapped in 1962. |
 Maersk Alabama, MV — American container ship Its hijacking by pirates near Somalia in 2009 was followed by the rescue of its crew. A second unsuccessful hijacking that year and several in 2011 were attempted. The hijacking was the subject of the movie Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks. LAUNCHED: 1998, launched as Alva Maersk → FATE: Still in service. |
 (Another ) Maine, USS — American battleship Its sinking precipitated the Spanish-American War. Sent to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt against Spain, she exploded without warning and sank, killing 274 men. LAUNCHED: 1889, November 18 → FATE: Sank in the Havana Harbor February 15, 1898. |
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 (Another ) Majestic — American paddle steamboat, stern-wheeler showboat The last of the original traveling showboats. Now the riverboat is a venue for comedies and musicals. LAUNCHED: 1920 → FATE: Currently docked at the Cincinnati Public Landing in Ohio. |
 Maltese Falcon — American full-rigged luxury yacht; now owned by a Englishman The largest full-rigged luxury yacht in the world. She has 5 square sails on each of 3 masts that can be fully unfurled in 6 minutes. Some claim the Eos is larger. LAUNCHED: 2006 → FATE: Still in service. |
 Marine Electric — American bulk carrier Her sinking resulted in some of the most important maritime reforms in the 20th century. The tragedy, with the loss of 34 crew, resulted in better inspection standards, mandatory survival suits for winter North Atlantic runs, and creation of the Coast Guard's Aviation Survival Technician program. LAUNCHED: 1944, May 2 → FATE: Sank February 12, 1983 about 30 miles off the coast of Virginia. |
 Mary Celeste — American brigantine The "ghost ship" found near the Strait of Gibraltar abandoned by its seven crew members in 1872. The popular mystery of the ship began with Arthur Conan Doyle's story in 1884, about a derelict ship which he called Marie Celeste. LAUNCHED: 1860 → FATE: Intentionally scuttled in January of 1885. |
 Mary Deare — American steamship; actually a 28 foot model. A fictional ship in the movie The Wreck of the Mary Deare. The movie was based upon the novel of the same name written by Hammond Innes. LAUNCHED: 1959, November 6, film release → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Maryland Dove — American merchant vessel Replica of the Dove, one of two early 17th-century English ship that, in 1634, brought the first settlers to what is now Maryland. The original Dove was the smaller of the two ship, used in shallow waterways along the coast. The accompanied ship with 140 passengers was the Ark. LAUNCHED: 1978, August 18 → FATE: On exhibit at Historic St. Mary's City and occasionally other ports. |
 Massachusetts, USS — American South Dakota class battleship Has the distinction of having fired the US Navy's first and last 16-in shells of the World War II. Despite being used as a parts cache to get the Iowa-class battleships back in service, Massachusetts was designated a National Historical Landmark a 14 January 1986. LAUNCHED: 1941, June 18 → FATE: Became a in museum ship at Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts June, 1965. |
 Mayflower, USS (PY-1) — American yacht She served as a private yacht, merchant ship, presidential yacht, and warship in 3 wars. She had many owners, as well serving as a presidential yacht 1905-1929. She was finally purchased by Israel in 1950 and renamed INS Ma'oz. LAUNCHED: 1896 → FATE: Broken up in 1955. |
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 Meredith Victory, SS — American cargo ship, freighter The "Ship of Miracles" saved more than 14,000 refugees during the Korean War, the largest humanitarian rescue operation by a single ship. The ship was built to transport supplies and equipment overseas during World War II. LAUNCHED: 1945, June 18 → FATE: Broken up for scrap in China in 1993. |
 Mighty Servant 2 — American heavy lift ship, semi-submersible Hauled the USS Samuel B. Roberts from Dubai to Newport, RI after the frigate struck a mine in the Persian Gulf. Along with sister ships Mighty Servant 1 and Mighty Servant 3, used mainly for moving oil drilling rigs. LAUNCHED: 1983 → FATE: Capsized near the Indonesian island of Singkep with loss of 5 crew November 2, 1999. |
 Minnow, S.S. — American express cruiser A fictional charter boat on the hit 1960s television sitcom Gilligan's Island. There were actually four different boats used on the show. (See Original S.S. Minnow Found for more.) LAUNCHED: 1964, for the TV series → FATE: Series ended in 1967. |
 Missouri, USS — American battleship The site of the surrender of Japan which ended World War II. She was the last battleship built by the United States. LAUNCHED: 1944, January 18 → FATE: On exhibit near the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. |
 Monitor, USS — American ironclad warship With CSS Virginia, first naval battle between two ironclad warships at the Battle of Hampton Roads. She had a rotating gun turret. LAUNCHED: 1862, January 18 → FATE: Sank on December 31, 1862. |
 Monte Carlo, SS — American concrete ship She became a gambling and prostitution ship operating in international waters off the coast of Long Beach, California. In the 1930s, she was the largest of a fleet of ships making up Gambling Ship Row off the southern California. LAUNCHED: 1921, December → FATE: Wrecked during a storm in 1937, ending up on a San Diego beach where it remains. |
 (Another ) Morro Castle, SS — American cruise ship A devastating fire aboard ship that killed 137 resulted in greater fire safety on newer ships. The burnt ship ended up at Asbury Park, NJ, where it became a tourist attraction. The tragedy resulted in the establishment of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. LAUNCHED: 1930, August 18 → FATE: Beached on September 8, 1934, scrapped March 29, 1935. |
 Mount Hood, USS — American ammunition ship The ship and dozens of surrounding vessels were obliterated with over 370 casualties in a massive explosion. The ship's 3800 tons of ordnance produced a blast equivalent to a tactical nuclear weapon. LAUNCHED: 1943, November 28 → FATE: Exploded on November 10, 1944, at Seadler Harbor on Manus Island. |
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 Myron, SS — American wooden steamship, built as a lumber hooker The wreck is protected as part of an underwater museum in the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve. She defied the adage "Lake Superior seldom gives up her dead" when all 17 crew drifted ashore found frozen to death. The captain survived. LAUNCHED: 1888 → FATE: Sank to the end of Lake Superior during a storm on November 23, 1919. |
 Nathan James, USS — American guided missile destroyer Fictional ship in the movie The Last Ship. She was portrayed by USS Halsey. LAUNCHED: 2014, movie release → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Nautilus, USS — American nuclear submarine World's first nuclear-powered submarine. She was the first vessel to cross under the North Pole. Also the namesake of another U.S. submarine that served in World War II. LAUNCHED: 1954, January 18 → FATE: On exhibit at the Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut. |
 New Jersey, USS — American battleship Earned more battle stars for combat actions than the other American battleship. She was the only U.S. battleship to provide gunfire support during the Vietnam War. LAUNCHED: 1942, December → FATE: In a museum at the Camden Waterfront, Camden, New Jersey. |
 Niantic — American whaling ship Brought fortune-seekers to Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) during the California Gold Rush of 1849. She was a prominent landmark in the booming city for several years. The site of Niantic beside the Transamerica Pyramid is now a California Historical Landmark. LAUNCHED: 1832 → FATE: Converted to hotel in 1849, destroyed by fire 1852. |
 Nimitz, USS — American aircraft carrier; supercarrier Setting for the 1980 science fiction movie The Final Countdown. In May of 1981, one of her planes crashed on the flight deck, killing 14 crewmen. LAUNCHED: 1972, May → FATE: Still in service. |
 (Another ) Normac, MS — American fire tug, later a ferry Used as Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant, a floating restaurant in Toronto Harbour, from 1969-1981. She sank after being severely damaged when the ferry Trillium struck her in 1981. She was raised in 1986 and again refurbished as a restaurant as seen in "Another IMAGE". LAUNCHED: 1902 → FATE: Currently a floating restaurant in Toronto, Ontario. |
 Olympia, USS — American protected cruiser Famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila. She is the sole floating survivor of the US Navy's Spanish American War fleet. LAUNCHED: 1892, November 18 → FATE: Restored as a museum ship at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia. |
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 Oneida — American yacht W.R. Hearst's boat and site of the mysterious death of an American film producer that became a scandal and part of early Hollywood lore. The 2001 movie The Cat's Meow dramatized the fateful events on the yacht. LAUNCHED: 1897 → FATE: Sold as scrap August 21, 1940. |
 (Another ) Oriskany, USS — American aircraft carrier, Essex class The world's largest, and the U.S.'s first, artificial reef. She had multiple reconfigurations and updates. In 1966, a flare accidentally ignited on the hangar bay causing a catastrophic fire killing 44 crewmen. LAUNCHED: 1945, October 18 → FATE: Sunk as an artifical reef May 17, 2006. |
 Ostfriesland, SMS — German battleship, ceded to America after World War II Sunk by bombs dropped from aircraft by General Billy Mitchell to demonstrate air power. After having seen action in World War I, the ship was ceded to the United States as war reparations. LAUNCHED: 1909, Septmber 30 → FATE: Sunk by bombs off Cape Hatteras July 21, 1921. |
 Pacific Princess — American cruise ship The ship featured in the TV series Love Boat from 1977 to 1986. In 1998 the Pacific Princess was impounded by police in Piraeus, Greece after 25 kg of heroin was found on board. LAUNCHED: 1970, May 18 → FATE: Sold to be scrapped in March of 2012. |
 Panay, USS — American river gunboat The USS Panay incident; on December 12, 1937, a Japanese bombing attack on this U.S. Navy river gunboat and three Standard Oil Company tankers on the Yangtze River. Two newsreel cameramen were present on Panay and filmed much of the attack and afterward from shore as Panay sank. See Newsreel. LAUNCHED: 1927, November 10 → FATE: Sunk in December 12, 1937. |
 Patrick Henry, SS — American liberty ship; cargo ship First of 2751 liberty ships built during World War II. Liberty ships were built in a mass production method, each typically in 70 days or less. SS Patrick Henry made 12 voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. LAUNCHED: 1941, September 18 → FATE: Went aground off the coast of Florida July of 1946, scrapped in 1960. |
 Pequod — American whaling ship Fictitious 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville and in several movies. In the novel, the ship's captain is the one-legged, monomaniacal Ahab. LAUNCHED: 1840, or earlier → FATE: Destroyed by a whale supposedly in 1851. |
 Perserverance — American steam boat First steam boat that operated using a series of vertical paddles. Invented by John Fitch, an improved model carried passengers on round-trips between Philadelphia and Burlington, New Jersey, summer of 1790. LAUNCHED: 1787 → FATE: Unknown. |
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 Pewabic, SS — American lake steamship; cargo ship Worst shipwreck on the Great Lakes with the loss of an estimated 125 lives, hundreds of tons of copper, silver, and iron ore. Over the years five divers died attempting to salvage the cargo. Some of the copper was recovered during World War I, the rest in 1974. LAUNCHED: 1863 → FATE: Collided with SS Meteor in Michigan's Thunder Bay and sank August 9, 1865. |
 Pilar — American fishing boat Ernest Hemingway's fishing boat. Pilar was a nickname for the American novelist's second wife, Pauline, and the heroine in For Whom the Bell Tolls. LAUNCHED: 1934, April → FATE: On display at Hemingway's former home, Finca Vigía, near Havana, Cuba. |
 Ponce, USS — American amphibious assault ship First "Afloat Forward Staging Base" (AFSB) ship. She was refitted in 2012 to serve as floating port for helicopters and patrol craft. LAUNCHED: 1970, May 18 → FATE: Still in service. |
 Portland, PS — American sidewheel steamer Known as the "Titanic of New England" and considered New England's worst maritime disaster, she went down with an estimated 192-245 passengers and crew. The storm that sank her, killed more than 400 persons and sank more than 150 other boats and ships. LAUNCHED: 1889 → FATE: Sank in the Portland Gale off of Cape Ann November 27, 1898. |
 Poseidon, SS — American cruise ship; British ocean liner Subject of a ship sinking in the 1969 novel The Poseidon Adventure and four movie adaptations, 1972, 1979, 2005, and 2006. In each version of the story, the ship is capsized and several survivors try to make their way to the top of the overturned ship. LAUNCHED: 1969, original story → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 President — American steamboat The last original "Western Rivers" style side-wheel river excursion steamboat in the United States and the second riverboat casino in modern times. In the 1950s and 1960s, she berthed in New Orleans for many years as a popular music venue featuring concerts by national acts; in 1990 she was converted into a floating casino. LAUNCHED: 1924 → FATE: In 2007 she was disassembled and moved in pieces to St. Elmo, Illinois where she may be re-assembled as a non-floating tourist attraction and hotel. |
 Prineton, USS — American screw steam warship First ship with screw propellers powered by an engine mounted entirely below the waterline. In 1844, during a pleasure cruise for dignitaries, a gun exploded killing 6 high-ranking federal officials and wounding 20 more, the worst such tragedy in American history. LAUNCHED: 1843, September 5 → FATE: Broken up at the Boston Navy Yard, October 1849. |
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 PT 109 — American motor torpedo boat Commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy. The movie of the incident PT 109 was made with President Kennedy's approval provided the events be historically accurate, and the profits go to the survivors of PT 109 and their families. LAUNCHED: 1942, June 18 → FATE: Rammed and sunk in the Solomon Islands by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri on a moonless night, August 2, 1943 during World War II. |
 PT-73 — American PT boat Patrol boat in the TV sitcom McHale's Navy. The real-life PT-73 was built on August 12, 1942, and was destroyed by the crew in January, 1945. LAUNCHED: 1962, 1966 for the TV series → FATE: Inconlusive. |
 Quaker City, USS — American paddle steamship, side-wheeler During a trip to Europe in 1867, she was the scene of some of the tales related by Mark Twain in his book The Innocents Abroad. During the American Civil War, she one of the most active and effective ships in the Union Navy's blockade of Chesapeake Bay. LAUNCHED: 1854 → FATE: Sold to the Haitian Navy in February of 1871, renamed République, lost at sea off Bermuda in March of 1871. |
 Red Rover, USS — American Confederate paddle steamboat, side-wheeler First ship fitted and staffed as a hospital ship. During the American Civil War, she was a Confederate barracks ship until the Union captured and refit her in March of 1862. LAUNCHED: 1859 → FATE: Decommissioned and sold at public auction November 29, 1865. |
 Reuben James, USS — American destroyer First US ship to be sunk in World War II. She was torpedoed while escorting an Atlantic convoy of supply ships to Britain; 159 crew were lost, 44 survived. LAUNCHED: 1919, October → FATE: Sunk October 31, 1941. |
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 River Queen — American sidewheel steamer Closely associated with President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant while operating on the Potomac River during the American Civil War. In March 1865, Abraham Lincoln met with his generals aboard the River Queen to discuss strategy for the end of the Civil War. LAUNCHED: 1864 → FATE: Burn to the water line in 1911, July |
 Robert E. Lee — American paddle steamboat, side-wheeler Won a steamboat race against the Natchez VI, going from St. Louis, Missouri to New Orleans, in 3 days, 18 hours and 14 minutes. The speed record still stands. A replica of the ship was built but it also burned in 2010. LAUNCHED: 1866 → FATE: Caught fire and lost north of New Orleans September 30, 1882. |
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 Robert E. Perry, SS — American liberty ship Gained fame during World War II for being built in the shortest time for such a large vessel. Typical completion of liberty ships took 50 days; she was completed in 4 days 15 hours and 29 minutes after the keel was laid down. LAUNCHED: 1942, November 12 → FATE: Scrapped at Baltimore, June 1963. |
 Rochambeau — American frigate, ironclad The longest wooden ship ever built. When the French thought Otto von Bismarck might be interested in the ship, they hurriedly bought her from the Americans and commission her in 1867. LAUNCHED: 1862, July 22 as Dunderberg → FATE: The French scrapped her in 1874. |
 Saluda — American river paddle steamboat, side-wheeler Worst river steamboat accident in US; a tragedy for the Mormon Church. Over 100 passengers out of 175 were killed, including 28 Mormons. There were several dozen survivors. LAUNCHED: 1846, (sunk in 1847, raised and repaired) → FATE: Boilers exploded and destroyed the boat on the Missouri River near Lexington, Missouri, she sank April 9, 1852. |
 San Capador, SS — American cruise ship Backdrop for the movie Captain Hates the Sea, a 1934 comedy film showing a series of intertwining stories involving the passengers on a cruise ship. The exterior footage of the ship would be seen again in the Three Stooges short Dunked in the Deep. LAUNCHED: 1934, movie release → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 San Pablo — American gunboat Featured in the movie Sand Pebbles starring Steve McQueen. After filming was completed, she was sold and renamed the Nola D, received significant modifications, and eventually used as a base camp for a seismic exploration company. LAUNCHED: 1966, movie release; actual ship September, 1895 → FATE: As the Nola D, she was taken to Singapore and scrapped in 1975. |
 Santana — American commuter yacht The boat in the 1948 movie Key Largo, starring Humphrey Bogart. The boat used in the movie, with Bogart's character at the helm, was the name of Bogart's personal sailing yacht. LAUNCHED: 1926, probably → FATE: Unknown. |
 Savannah, SS — American paddle steamship, side-wheeler with sails First steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. After ocean crossing, her steam plant was removed and she continued sailing up and down the east coast. LAUNCHED: 1819, March → FATE: Ran aground off Long Island, NY in 1823. |
 Scorpion, USS — American Skipjack-class nuclear submarine Went missing at sea with 99 crewmen, one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher (SSN-593). She carried two nuclear-tipped torpedoes. In November 2012, the submarine veterans asked the US Navy to reopen the investigation on the sinking. LAUNCHED: 1959, December 18 → FATE: Sank on May 22, 1968 in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of the Azores. |
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 Sea Queen — American sport-fishing boat Boat at the center of the movie The Breaking Point. This movie was based on Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not which was made into an earlier movie with the same title, but in which the boat is called Queen Conch LAUNCHED: 1950 → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Sea Shadow — American stealth warship U.S. Navy experimental stealth ship, never intended to be mission capable and never commissioned. The ship was the inspiration for the stealth ship in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies. LAUNCHED: 1985, March → FATE: As of June, 2011 the ship is still being stored at Suisun Bay in northern California awaiting its fate. |
 (Another ) Sea Tiger, USS — American submarine A fictional U.S. Navy submarine in the 1959 movie Operation Petticoat during the opening days of World War II. Stand-in boats were USS Balao painted pink for exterior shots and USS Archerfish with the standard colors of gray and black for interior and some exterior shots. LAUNCHED: 1959 → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Sea Wing — American paddle steamer One of the worst maritime disasters that has occurred on the upper Mississippi River with 98 passengers drowned. Shortly after leaving Lake City on the excursion return trip, a violent storm broke and capsizing the steamer. LAUNCHED: 1888 → FATE: Sunk in July 13, 1890. Later recovered and rebuilt. |
 Seaborn Legend — American cruise ship The ship in the movie Speed 2: Cruise Control; starring Sandra Bullock. The plot has a couple on vacation to the Caribbean aboard a luxury cruise ship which is hijacked by a villain. LAUNCHED: 1997, for movie relase; ship launched in 1991. → FATE: Ship is still in service as Star Legend. |
 Sequoia, USS — American yacht, 104-foot wooden Served as the U.S. presidential yacht from 1933 until it was sold in 1977. She was purchased in 1931 by the U.S. Department of Commerce for Prohibition patrol and decoy duties. LAUNCHED: 1926 → FATE: Refurbished many time; now privately owned. |
 Serpens, USS — American Crater-class cargo ship The most catastrophic single-event loss of life in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard with 250 casualties. In the explosion, a 12-ton locomotive, the wooden pier it sat on, and 16 boxcars loaded with bombs and ammunition disappeared completely. LAUNCHED: 1943, April 5 → FATE: Exploded in complete destruction January 29, 1945, on the coast of Guadalcanal. |
 Shenandoah, CSS — American Confederate full-rigged ship, iron-clad During the US Civil War, she captured and/or sank 38 Union merchant vessels. She fired the last shot of the Civil War off the Aleutian Islands, then was surrendered to the British. She was sold to Majid bin Said, the first Sultan of Zanzibar who renamed her El Majidi after himself. LAUNCHED: 1863, August 18 → FATE: As El Majidi, beached during hurricane near Zanzibar in 1872. |
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 Silversides, USS — American Gato-class submarine One of the most successful submarines in the Pacific Theater of World War II, with 23 sinkings totalling more than 90,000 tons. She was used to depict the fictional submarine USS Tiger Shark in the 2002 film Below LAUNCHED: 1941, August 18 → FATE: Currently serves as a museum ship at the USS Silversides Submarine Museum in Muskegon, Michigan, and is a National Historic Landmark. |
 Slo-mo-shun IV — American racing hydroplane Winner of the 1950, 1952, and 1953 APBA Gold Cup Races; also set two straightaway speed records. Her hull was designed to lift the top of the propellers out of water at high speed, a technique called “prop riding,” which reduced drag. LAUNCHED: 1949, October → FATE: Wrecked in a pre-race test run in 1956; rebuilt and on exhibit at Seattle's Museum of History and Industry. |
 Somers, USS — American brig The only U.S. Navy ship upon which a conspiracy of mutiny took place. Known as the "Somers Affair", it was the basis for several books and dramatizations. December 1, 1842, three of the mutineers who intended to take over the ship and use it for piracy were found guilty of "intention to commit a mutiny," hanged and buried at sea. LAUNCHED: 1842, May 18 → FATE: Capsized and foundered in a sudden squall off Vera Cruz December of 1846. |
 South Carolina, USS — American dreadnought, battleship The first American dreadnought and the first of any nation to have its main guns in a superfire arrangement. She was part of America's Great White Fleet that circumnavigated, December of 1907 to February of 1909. LAUNCHED: 1908, July 18 → FATE: Sold for scrap on April of 1924. |
 (Another ) Star Princess — Italian cruise ship; American-British owned Fire amidship produced smoke, killing one passenger and injuring 13 others. With the fire initiated, highly combustible polycarbonate partitions, polyurethane deck tiles, and the plastic furniture produced large amounts of thick black smoke. LAUNCHED: 2001, May 18 → FATE: Damage repaired and still in service. |
 Staten Island Ferry — American passenger ferry boats A fleet of eight ferry boats sailing free of charge between Manhattan and Staten Island in New York. On October 15, 2003, the Andrew J. Barberi collided with a pier killing eleven people and injuring many others; NYC's deadliest mass-transit incident in 50 years. LAUNCHED: 1819 → FATE: Still in service. |
 Sultana, SS — American paddle steamboat, stern-wheeler Tragically collided with the SS Narragansett. An estimated 1,800 of 2,400 passengers were killed when the ship's boilers exploded, earning her the appellation "Titanic of the Mississippi." LAUNCHED: 1863 → FATE: Sank April 27, 1865. |
 Tang, USS — American Balao class submarine Credited with sinking 31 enemy ships totaling 227,800 tons, unequaled among American submarines during World War II. When she was sunk by a circular run of her final torpedo, several crew escaped the sinking boat with a Momsen lung, the only known occasion of its use. 78 men were lost and the nine survived. LAUNCHED: 1943, August 18 → FATE: Sunk by her own torpedo in the Taiwan Strait October 24, 1944. |
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 (Another ) Texas, USS — American New York class battleship The only remaining World War I era dreadnought battleship. She is noteworthy for being one of only seven remaining ships and the only remaining capital ship to have served in both World Wars. LAUNCHED: 1912, May 18 → FATE: Museum ship at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site. |
 Thomas W. Lawson — American seven-masted schooner The largest schooner and largest sailing vessel without an auxiliary engine ever built. She proved problematic in the ports she was intended to operate in due to the amount of water she displaced. LAUNCHED: 1902, July, 10 → FATE: Sank in a storm while at anchor off Cornwall, England, in 1907 taking 16 of her crew with her. |
 Thresher, USS — American nuclear submarine Lost at sea during deep-diving tests in 1963 with 129 crew. She was the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines and one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Scorpion, SSN-589. LAUNCHED: 1960, July 18 → FATE: Sunk April 10, 1963. |
 Tigerfish, USS — American attack submarine Fictional submarine in the movie Ice Station Zebra. She was portrayed in the movie by the diesel-electric submarine USS Ronquil when seen on the surface. LAUNCHED: 1968, movie release → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Tonquin — American merchant ship The ship was part of Astor's attempt to establish a fur trading outpost on the Pacific Northwest coast. After an angry encounter with natives, two surviving crew hid in the ship, then when the Indian natives returned to loot the ship, lit a fuse that detonated her powder magazine killing more than 100 natives and two crew. LAUNCHED: 1807, May 26 → FATE: Blown up June 16, 1811. |
 United States, SS — American ocean liner (steamship) The fastest liner ever built; virtually no wood used in her construction. On her maiden voyage she captured the Blue Riband with the fastest transatlantic crossing on record in 3 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes at an average speed of 35.59 knots. LAUNCHED: 1951, June 18 → FATE: As of February 7, 2012, work has begun on the restoration project to prepare the ship for her eventual rebuild. |
 Valencia, SS — American passenger steamboat (steamship) Consider the worst maritime disaster in the Graveyard of the Pacific, a treacherous area off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. 27 years after her sinking, one of her life rafts was found floating peacefully in nearby Barkley Sound. LAUNCHED: 1882, May → FATE: Wrecked January 22, 1906. |
 Vandenberg, USAFS — American transport ship Second-largest artificial reef in the world, after the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. She transported troops in World War II. In 1998, she was featured in the film Virus as the Russian research ship Akademik Vladislav Volkov. LAUNCHED: 1943, October → FATE: Sank May 27, 2009, six miles off the Florida Keys. |
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 Ville de Nancy — American sloop of war Fictious ship in the movie Passageto Marseille, set during World War II and starring Humphrey Bogart. For the movie, Warner Bros. built a full-scale Merchant Marine ship modeled after the French ship Ville de Nancy. LAUNCHED: 1940 → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 Vincennes, USS — American sloop of war First U.S. ship to circumnavigate the globe. She was the flagship for the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838. LAUNCHED: 1826 → FATE: Sold in October of 1867 at Boston, Massachusetts; fate unknown. |
 Virginia, CSS — Americant Confederat ironclad warship With USS Monitor, first naval battle between ironclad warships at the Battle of Hampton Roads. She was converted to an ironclad from a steam frigate. LAUNCHED: 1862, February → FATE: Destroyed by crew May 11, 1862. |
 Walk-in-the-Water — American paddle steamboat, stern-wheeler with two masts First steamboat on Lake Erie and the eastern Great Lakes. Two large paddle boxes amidship housed her paddle wheels. LAUNCHED: 1818, August 23, first voyage → FATE: Grounded on the beach south of Buffalo, NY, October 31, 1821. |
 Wanderer — American whaling ship Last American whaling ship. The mast of the Wanderer stands as a flagpole in Boston Navy Yard, a few feet from where it was built. LAUNCHED: 1878 → FATE: Lost in a storm near Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, on August 26, 1924. |
 Wanderer — American yacht The boat in the 1992 comedy movie Captain Ron; starring Kurt Russell and Martin Short. The movie received mostly negative reviews. LAUNCHED: 1992 → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 We're Here — American Schooner The fictional ship in the book and movie Captain Couraeous. Based on the 1897 book by Rudyard Kipling, it's a story of a boy and his adventures aboard a the ship. LAUNCHED: 1937 → FATE: Inconclusive. |
 (Another ) Western Flyer — American fishing boat Known for its use by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts in their 1940 expedition to the Gulf of California.. After Steinbeck's voyage, the ship was returned to commercial fishing, harvesting sardines, perch, and crab. Twice in 2012 the boat sprang leaks and sank and refloated each time. LAUNCHED: 1937, July 3 → FATE: Being restored to its historic glory by the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-Op. |
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 Winfield Scott, SS — American paddle steamer A sidewheel steamer that transported passengers and cargo between San Francisco and Panama in the early 1850s, during the California Gold Rush. She has been the object of numerous salvage operations since the crash and currently rests underwater as part of the Channel Islands National Park. LAUNCHED: 1850, October 5 → FATE: During a foggy night, crashed on Anacapa Island December 2, 1853. |
 World is not Enough — American super yacht Fastest yacht in the world. She cruises at 50 knots and can reach speeds of up to 70 knots. LAUNCHED: 2005 → FATE: Still in use. |
 Wyoming — American six-masted schooner The largest known wooden ship ever built. Because of her length she tended to flex in heavy seas causing the long planks to twist and buckle, allowing water to seep into the hold. LAUNCHED: 1909, December 15 → FATE: Foundered in a storm in 1924 and sank off the coast of Cape Cod with the loss of all 14 crewmen. |
 X-craft submarine — American miniature submarine Deployed September, 1943 against German warships based in Norway. These midget subs would be towed to their target area by a full-size submarine. Of the 20 built, seven were lost, 12 scuttled or scrapped. LAUNCHED: 1943 → FATE: Only one has survive and is on display at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum. |
 Yarmouth Castle, SS — American cruise ship Fire left 90 of 552 on board died. Her loss lead to the Safety of Life at Sea law. During World War II, she served as a troop ship and hospital ship in the Pacific. LAUNCHED: 1927 → FATE: Sunk in a blaze on the way to Nassau November 13, 1965. |
 Zumwalt, USS — American guided missile destroyer Designed with stealth capabilities, having a radar cross-section akin to a fishing boat. Commanding officer is Captain James A. Kirk, coincidentially the same as the Star Trek captain. LAUNCHED: 2013, October → FATE: Currently at sea. |
The number of American Ships and Boats listed is 197 The contents of this page are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). |
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| Page | Ship Name (Country and Type) |
| 1. | Admiral, SS (American river steamboat) |
| 2. | Alvin, DSV (American research vessel) |
| 3. | Artemis (American sloop) |
| 4. | Birmingham, USS (American scout cruiser) |
| 5. | Calypso, RV (American minesweeper) |
| 6. | Clotilda (American two-masted schooner) |
| 7. | Cusk, USS (American submarine) |
| 8. | Eldridge, USS (American destroyer escort) |
| 9. | Faith, SS (American Concrete) |
| 10. | Glomar Explorer (American deep sea research vessel) |
| 11. | Hewell, USS (American cargo ship) |
| 12. | Indiana, USS (BB-1) (American battleship) |
| 13. | Kingston II (American tugboat) |
| 14. | Majestic (American paddle steamboat) |
| 15. | Meredith Victory, SS (American cargo ship) |
| 16. | Myron, SS (American wooden steamship) |
| 17. | Oneida (American yacht) |
| 18. | Pewabic, SS (American lake steamship) |
| 19. | PT 109 (American motor torpedo boat) |
| 20. | Robert E. Perry, SS (American liberty ship) |
| 21. | Sea Queen (American sport-fishing boat) |
| 22. | Silversides, USS (American Gato-class submarine) |
| 23. | Texas, USS (American New York class battleship) |
| 24. | Ville de Nancy (American sloop of war) |
| 25. | Winfield Scott, SS (American paddle steamer) |
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| 1. | Admiral, SS American river steamboat |
| 2. | African Queen American steamboat |
| 3. | Alabama, CSS American Confederate screw sloop-of-war |
| 4. | Albacore, USS American submarine |
| 5. | Albert M. Boe American liberty ship |
| 6. | Alligator American submarine |
| 7. | Alvin, DSV American research vessel |
| 8. | America American racing yacht |
| 9. | American Queen American river paddle steamboat |
| 10. | Ancon, SS American steamship |
| 11. | Andrea Gail American fishing vessel |
| 12. | Argonaut American cabin cruiser |
| 13. | Ariel English clipper ship |
| 14. | Arizona, USS American battleship |
| 15. | Artemis American sloop |
| 16. | Arthur Foss American tugboat |
| 17. | B-39 Russian foxtrot-class submarine |
| 18. | Balao, USS American submarine |
| 19. | Ballantrae, USS American Town-class destroyer |
| 20. | Becuna, USS American submarine |
| 21. | Belinda, USS American attack transport |
| 22. | Belle of Louisville American steamboat |
| 23. | Birmingham, USS American scout cruiser |
| 24. | Birthday Present American super-yacht |
| 25. | Black Pearl American yacht |
| 26. | Bonhomme Richard, USS American frigate |
| 27. | Buford, USAT American cargo |
| 28. | C.A. Thayer American three-masted schooner |
| 29. | Caine, USS American destroyer minesweeper |
| 30. | Cairo, USS American ironclad gunboat |
| 31. | Calypso, RV American minesweeper |
| 32. | Campbeltown, HMS American Wickes-class destroyer |
| 33. | Carroll A. Deering American schooner |
| 34. | Cassin Young, USS American destroyer |
| 35. | Central America, SS American paddle steamboat |
| 36. | Charles W. Morgan American whaling ship |
| 37. | Claremore Queen American steamboat |
| 38. | Clermont American steamboat |
| 39. | Clotilda American two-masted schooner |
| 40. | Cole, USS American aegis-equipped |
| 41. | Columbia Rediviva American full-rigged |
| 42. | Conception, MV American dive boat |
| 43. | Constellation, USS American sloop-of-war |
| 44. | Constitution, SS American ocean liner |
| 45. | Constitution, USS American frigate |
| 46. | Cotopaxi, SS American bulk carrier |
| 47. | Cusk, USS American submarine |
| 48. | David, CSS American Confederate torpedo boat |
| 49. | Demologos American paddle steamers |
| 50. | Dolpin, USS American V-class submarine |
| 51. | Drum, USS American Gato-class submarine |
| 52. | Eastland, SS American steamship |
| 53. | Edmund Fitzgerald, SS American lake cargo ship |
| 54. | El Faro, SS American container ship |
| 55. | Eldridge, USS American destroyer escort |
| 56. | Empress of China American three-masted, square-rigged sailing ship |
| 57. | Enterprise, USS American aircraft carrier |
| 58. | Eos American three-masted Bermuda rigged |
| 59. | Essex American barque |
| 60. | Eureka American paddle steamboat |
| 61. | Exodus 1947 American packet steamer |
| 62. | Exxon Valdez American oil tanker |
| 63. | Faith, SS American Concrete |
| 64. | Fenian Ram American submarine |
| 65. | Floating Theater American caravel |
| 66. | Flying Cloud American clipper |
| 67. | Flying Enterprise American cargo ship |
| 68. | General Slocum American river paddle steamboat |
| 69. | Ghost American schooner |
| 70. | Ghost, stealth ship American super-cavitating |
| 71. | Glomar Explorer American deep sea research vessel |
| 72. | Grandcamp, SS American liberty ship |
| 73. | Great Republic American clipper |
| 74. | Halibut, USS American attack submarine |
| 75. | Hannah, USS American schooner |
| 76. | Hannibal, USS American collier |
| 77. | HD-4 American hydrofoil |
| 78. | Henry B. Smith, SS American lake cargo ship |
| 79. | Hewell, USS American cargo ship |
| 80. | Higgins boat American troop landing craft |
| 81. | Holland, USS (SS-1) American submarine |
| 82. | Honey Fitz American yacht |
| 83. | Houston, USS (CA-30) American cruiser |
| 84. | Hunley, H.L. American Confederate submarine |
| 85. | Ideal X, SS American cargo ship |
| 86. | Independence, USS American trimaran |
| 87. | Indiana, USS (BB-1) American battleship |
| 88. | Indianapolis, USS American Portland-class |
| 89. | Intrepid, USS American aircraft carrier |
| 90. | Iowa, USS American fast battleship |
| 91. | John Adams, USS American frigate |
| 92. | John W. Brown, SS American liberty ship |
| 93. | Joyita American luxury yacht |
| 94. | Kalakala American ferry |
| 95. | Kingston II American tugboat |
| 96. | Kirk, USS American destroyer escort, Knox-class |
| 97. | Laffey, USS American Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer |
| 98. | Langley, USS American aircraft carrier |
| 99. | Lexington American steamboat |
| 100. | Liberté, SS German ocean liner |
| 101. | Maersk Alabama, MV American container ship |
| 102. | Maine, USS American battleship |
| 103. | Majestic American paddle steamboat |
| 104. | Maltese Falcon American full-rigged |
| 105. | Marine Electric American bulk carrier |
| 106. | Mary Celeste American brigantine |
| 107. | Mary Deare American steamship |
| 108. | Maryland Dove American merchant vessel |
| 109. | Massachusetts, USS American South Dakota class battleship |
| 110. | Mayflower, USS (PY-1) American yacht |
| 111. | Meredith Victory, SS American cargo ship |
| 112. | Mighty Servant 2 American heavy lift ship |
| 113. | Minnow, S.S. American express cruiser |
| 114. | Missouri, USS American battleship |
| 115. | Monitor, USS American ironclad warship |
| 116. | Monte Carlo, SS American concrete ship |
| 117. | Morro Castle, SS American cruise ship |
| 118. | Mount Hood, USS American ammunition ship |
| 119. | Myron, SS American wooden steamship |
| 120. | Nathan James, USS American guided missile destroyer |
| 121. | Nautilus, USS American nuclear submarine |
| 122. | New Jersey, USS American battleship |
| 123. | Niantic American whaling ship |
| 124. | Nimitz, USS American aircraft carrier |
| 125. | Normac, MS American ferry |
| 126. | Olympia, USS American protected cruiser |
| 127. | Oneida American yacht |
| 128. | Oriskany, USS American aircraft carrier |
| 129. | Ostfriesland, SMS German battleship |
| 130. | Pacific Princess American cruise ship |
| 131. | Panay, USS American river gunboat |
| 132. | Patrick Henry, SS American liberty ship |
| 133. | Pequod American whaling ship |
| 134. | Perserverance American steam boat |
| 135. | Pewabic, SS American lake steamship |
| 136. | Pilar American fishing boat |
| 137. | Ponce, USS American amphibious assault ship |
| 138. | Portland, PS American sidewheel steamer |
| 139. | Poseidon, SS American cruise ship |
| 140. | President American steamboat |
| 141. | Prineton, USS American screw steam warship |
| 142. | Proteus American catamaran |
| 143. | PT 109 American motor torpedo boat |
| 144. | PT-73 American PT boat |
| 145. | Quaker City, USS American paddle steamship |
| 146. | Red Rover, USS American Confederate paddle steamboat |
| 147. | Reuben James, USS American destroyer |
| 148. | Riptide American yacht |
| 149. | River Queen American sidewheel steamer |
| 150. | Robert E. Lee American paddle steamboat |
| 151. | Robert E. Perry, SS American liberty ship |
| 152. | Rochambeau American frigate |
| 153. | Saluda American river paddle steamboat |
| 154. | San Capador, SS American cruise ship |
| 155. | San Pablo American gunboat |
| 156. | Santana American commuter yacht |
| 157. | Savannah, SS American paddle steamship |
| 158. | Scorpion, USS American Skipjack-class nuclear submarine |
| 159. | Sea Queen American sport-fishing boat |
| 160. | Sea Shadow American stealth warship |
| 161. | Sea Tiger, USS American submarine |
| 162. | Sea Wing American paddle steamer |
| 163. | Seaborn Legend American cruise ship |
| 164. | Sequoia, USS American yacht |
| 165. | Serpens, USS American Crater-class cargo ship |
| 166. | Shenandoah, CSS American Confederate full-rigged ship |
| 167. | Silversides, USS American Gato-class submarine |
| 168. | Slo-mo-shun IV American racing hydroplane |
| 169. | Somers, USS American brig |
| 170. | South Carolina, USS American dreadnought |
| 171. | Star Princess Italian cruise ship |
| 172. | Staten Island Ferry American passenger ferry |
| 173. | Sultana, SS American paddle steamboat |
| 174. | Tang, USS American Balao class submarine |
| 175. | Texas, USS American New York class battleship |
| 176. | Thomas W. Lawson American seven-masted schooner |
| 177. | Thresher, USS American nuclear submarine |
| 178. | Tigerfish, USS American attack submarine |
| 179. | Tonquin American merchant ship |
| 180. | United States, SS American ocean liner |
| 181. | Valencia, SS American passenger steamboat |
| 182. | Vandenberg, USAFS American transport ship |
| 183. | Ville de Nancy American sloop of war |
| 184. | Vincennes, USS American sloop of war |
| 185. | Virginia, CSS Americant Confederat ironclad warship |
| 186. | Walk-in-the-Water American paddle steamboat |
| 187. | Wanderer American whaling ship |
| 188. | Wanderer American yacht |
| 189. | We're Here American Schooner |
| 190. | Western Flyer American fishing boat |
| 191. | Winfield Scott, SS American paddle steamer |
| 192. | World is not Enough American super yacht |
| 193. | Wyoming American six-masted schooner |
| 194. | X-craft submarine American miniature submarine |
| 195. | Yarmouth Castle, SS American cruise ship |
| 196. | Zumwalt, USS American guided missile destroyer |
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