Learn Famous Historic Ships
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- Flagship of Columbus’s 1492 voyage to the New World — Santa María
- Smaller ship on Columbus’s first transatlantic voyage — Niña
- Companion to the Santa María and Niña — Pinta
- Carried the Pilgrims to North America in 1620 — Mayflower
- Francis Drake’s ship that circumnavigated the globe (1577–1580) — Golden Hind
- Admiral Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar (1805); now preserved — HMS Victory
- “Old Ironsides,” oldest commissioned warship afloat; War of 1812 fame — USS Constitution
- Site of the famous “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1789) — HMS Bounty
- Carried Charles Darwin (1831–1836), leading to his theory of evolution — HMS Beagle
- James Cook’s ship on first voyage of discovery (1768–1771) — HMS Endeavour
- Pioneering Union ironclad of the Civil War, first turreted warship — USS Monitor
- Former USS Merrimack, converted Confederate ironclad, dueled USS Monitor — CSS Virginia
- Its 1898 sinking in Havana Harbor spurred the Spanish–American War — USS Maine
- Revolutionary British battleship (1906) triggering global “dreadnought race” — HMS Dreadnought
- Iconic British passenger liner, sank on maiden voyage (1912) — RMS Titanic
- British liner sunk by German U-boat (1915), influenced WWI public opinion — RMS Lusitania
- Brunel’s advanced iron-hulled steamship, now museum ship — SS Great Britain
- British battlecruiser sunk by German battleship Bismarck (1941) — HMS Hood
- German battleship famously pursued and sunk by the Royal Navy (1941) — Bismarck
- Sister ship to Bismarck; largest battleship built by Germany — Tirpitz
- German light cruiser known for commerce raiding early in WWI — SMS Emden
- Largest battleship ever built, served Imperial Japan in WWII — Yamato
- Admiral Tōgō’s flagship at Tsushima (1905), now preserved as a museum — Mikasa
- Sunk at Pearl Harbor (1941), major U.S. memorial — USS Arizona
- Site of Japan’s WWII surrender (1945), last U.S. battleship, now museum — USS Missouri
- Most decorated U.S. aircraft carrier of WWII — USS Enterprise (CV-6)
- Key U.S. carrier, pivotal at Midway before sinking (1942) — USS Yorktown (CV-5)
- British battleship sunk by Japanese air attack (1941) — HMS Prince of Wales
- British WWI-era “R”-class battleship — HMS Royal Sovereign
- Confederate raider capturing many Union merchant ships in Civil War — CSS Alabama
- Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa raft crossing from South America to Polynesia (1947) — Kon-Tiki
- Used by Fridtjof Nansen & Roald Amundsen in Arctic/Antarctic exploration — Fram
- Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition ship, crushed by ice (1915) — Endurance
- Union ironclad sunk by a mine in the Civil War (1862) — USS Cairo
- Rescued Titanic survivors (1912), later sunk by U-boat in WWI — RMS Carpathia
- German liner turned WWII evacuation ship, sank 1945 with huge loss of life — MV Wilhelm Gustloff
- Italian ocean liner sank after collision (1956), known for rescue operations — SS Andrea Doria
- U.S. destroyer damaged by terrorist attack in 2000, later repaired — USS Cole
- Last battleship launched for the Royal Navy — HMS Vanguard (1946)
- British aircraft carrier sunk in WWII (1941) — Ark Royal (1938)
- Swedish warship sank on maiden voyage (1628), salvaged in 1961 — Vasa
- King Henry VIII’s warship, sank in 1545, later raised — Mary Rose
- Explorership of French colonist La Salle, sank in Gulf of Mexico (1686) — La Belle
- First operational nuclear-powered submarine (1954) — USS Nautilus (SSN-571)
- Soviet Hotel-class sub, known for a nuclear reactor accident — K-19
- French ocean liner, art deco icon, caught fire in NYC (1942) — SS Normandie
- Fast American ocean liner, Blue Riband holder — SS United States
- Well-preserved Viking ship discovered in Norway — Gokstad ship
- Richly decorated Viking burial ship — Oseberg ship
- British clipper ship, extremely fast for tea trade — Cutty Sark
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