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| x Submarine |
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A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability. The term submarine most commonly refers to large crewed autonomous vessels;...
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| x Cutter |
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When used in a nautical sense, a cutter is:
Traditionally the sloop rig was a rig with a single mast located forward of 70% of the length of the sailplan. In this traditional definition a sloop could have multiple jibs on a fixed bowsprit.
Cutters...
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| x Research vessel |
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A research vessel (RV or R/V) is a ship designed and equipped to carry out research at sea. Research vessels carry out a number of roles. Some of these roles can be combined into a single vessel, others require a dedicated vessel.
Due to the...
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| x Container ship |
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Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.
The earliest container ships were...
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| x Submarine aircraft carrier |
Submarine aircraft carriers are submarines equipped with fixed wing aircraft for observation or attack missions. These submarines saw their most extensive use during World War II, although their operational significance remained rather small. The...
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| x Destroyer |
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In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range but powerful attackers (originally torpedo...
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| x Battleship |
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A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of the largest caliber of guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers or destroyers. There are currently no battleships in service.
Battleship...
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| x Heavy cruiser |
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The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range, high speed and an armament of naval guns roughly 203mm calibre (8 inches). The heavy cruiser can be seen as a lineage of ship design from 1915 until 1945, although the...
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| x Cruiser |
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A cruiser is a large type of warship, which had its prime period from the late 19th century to the end of the Cold War. The first cruisers were intended for individual raiding and protection missions on the seas. Over the years, the nature and role...
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| x Light cruiser |
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A light cruiser is a warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armoured cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armour in the same way as an armoured cruiser: a protective belt and deck. Prior to this smaller cruisers had been of...
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| x Aircraft carrier |
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An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power great distances without having to depend on local...
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| x Escort aircraft carrier |
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The escort aircraft carrier or escort carrier (popularly known as the jeep carrier or baby flattop), was a small and slow type of aircraft carrier used by the British Royal Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States Navy in World War II....
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| x Light aircraft carrier |
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A light aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier that is smaller than the standard carriers of a navy. The precise definition of the type varies by country; light carriers typically have a compliment of aircraft only ½ to ⅔ the size of a full-sized...
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Supercarrier is an unofficial descriptive term for the largest type of aircraft carrier, usually displacing over 70,000 long tons. Few countries operate medium carriers of 40,000 tons (such as Charles de Gaulle). Light carriers closer to 20,000 ...
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| x Hospital ship |
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A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a medical treatment facility or hospital; most are operated by the military forces or navies of various countries around the world, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones....
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| x Frigate |
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A frigate (pronounced /ˈfrɪɡɨt/) is a warship. The term has been used for warships of many sizes and roles over the past few centuries.
In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often...
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| x Cargo ship |
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A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade. Cargo...
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| x Schooner |
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A schooner (pronounced /ˈskuːnər/) is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being shorter or the same height as the rear masts. Schooners were first used by the Dutch in...
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| x Hydrofoil |
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A hydrofoil is a winglike structure or foil, attached to the hull of a boat that raises all or part of the hull out of the water when the boat is moving forward, thus reducing drag.
The term "hydrofoil" is also sometimes used to refer to the...
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| x United States Coast Guard Cutter |
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A United States Coast Guard cutter is any vessel operated by the United States Coast Guard that is over 65 feet in length.
The Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service , as it was known variously throughout the late 18th and the 19th centuries,...
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| x High endurance cutter |
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The designation of High endurance cutter (WHEC) was created in 1965 when the United States Coast Guard adopted its own designation system. High endurance cutters encompassed its largest cutters previously designated by the United States Navy as...
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| x Tall ship |
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A tall ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques.
Traditional rigging may include square rigs and gaff rigs, with separate topmasts and topsails. It...
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| x Baltimore Clipper |
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Baltimore Clipper is the colloquial name for fast sailing ships built on the south-eastern seaboard of the United States of America, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland. It is most commonly applied to two-masted schooners and brigantines....
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| x Centre-battery ship |
The central battery ship was a development of the ironclad ships. The man behind the design was the newly appointed Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, Edward James Reed. The central battery ships had their main guns concentrated to the middle of...
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| x Pre-industrial armoured ships |
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Armoured warships were wooden ships or ships of composite construction (wooden planking on iron frames) armoured with thick metal plates. The Europeans made ships with metal ribs as rams and there are also documents about armoured ships, some of...
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| x Drekkar |
Drekar (sing. Dreki, from latin Draco), translated as 'dragon ships', was a name for the longship used by Scandinavian Vikings for raids during the 11th century AD.
The Drekar were designed to carry more troops that the standard longships,...
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| x Galiot |
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Galiots (or galliots) were types of ships from the Age of Sail.
In the Mediterranean, galiots were a type of smaller galley, with one or two masts and about twenty oars, using both sails and oars for propulsion. Warships of the type typically...
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| x Fishing vessel |
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A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish in the sea, or on a lake or river. Many different kinds of vessels are used in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing.
According to the FAO, there are currently (2004) four million...
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| x Floating restaurant |
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A floating restaurant is a kind of vessel which is usually a type of steel barge used as a restaurant on water. For example, the Jumbo Palace at Aberdeen in Hong Kong is one such restaurant. Sometimes retired ships are given a second lease on life...
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| x Whaleback |
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The whaleback was a cargo steamship of unique design, with a hull that continuously curved above the waterline from vertical to horizontal--leaving, when fully loaded, only the rounded portion of the hull with its "whaleback" above the waterline....
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| x Baidak |
Baidak (Ukrainian: байда́к) was a wooden sailing ship, similar to a cog. It had a flush-laid flat bottom approximately 3 - 4 metres wide, which narrowed to tapered ends, and one 5 metre mast. Measuring approximately 15 - 20 (or 36 - 60) meters in...
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| x Evacuation Transport |
An Evacuation Transport is a vessel type employed by the U.S. Navy. Its designation is APH, and the vessel is used to evacuate personnel, principally the wounded.
An example of such a vessel is the USS Pinkney (APH-2).
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| x Fish processing vessel |
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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 fish. According to the FAO, there are about 38,400 vessels greater than 100 tons in the world...
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| x Timberclad |
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A timberclad warship is a kind of mid 19th century river gunboat.
They were based upon a similar design as ironclad warships however had timber armour in place of iron.
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| x Quadriremes |
Quadrireme is the Latin name for a class of galley used by the ancient navies of the Mediterranean from the 4th century BC onwards. It is the translation of the Greek term tetrērēs (τετρήρης, "four-rower").
According to modern historians, the name...
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| x Palace steamer |
Palace steamers were luxurious steamships that carried passengers and cargo around the North American Great Lakes from 1844 through 1857. One was the Niagara, which was destroyed by a fire during an 1856 voyage.
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| x Auxiliary Motor Minesweepers |
Auxiliary Motor Minesweepers (YMS) were small yard-class minesweepers commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service during World War II. The YMS proved so successful as a type that it eventually became the basis for the AMS class of Navy minesweeper.
It...
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| x Cat-ketch |
A cat-ketch is a sailboat that is rigged as both a catboat and a ketch. Specifically, there is larger mast stepped at the very bow, and a smaller mast further aft. This rig was found on sharpies.
External Links:
"Why a Cat Ketch" from B and B Yacht...
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| x Aircraft cruiser |
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The aircraft cruiser or cruiser-carrier was originally a 1930s experimental concept of creating an all-around warship, trying to combine all the good features of the aircraft carrier and the heavy cruiser. The aircraft cruisers were usually armed...
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| x Barracks ship |
Barracks ship is a term used to indicate a non-self-propelled barge containing superstructure of a type suitable for use as a temporary barracks for sailors. A barracks ship may also be used as a "Receiving Unit" for sailors who need temporary...
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| x General stores issue ship |
General stores issue ship is a type of ship used by the United States Navy during World War II and for some time afterwards.
The task of the general stores issue ship was to sail into non-combat, or rear, areas and disburse general stores, such as...
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| x Rescue and salvage ship |
Rescue and salvage ships in the United States Navy were common during World War II. Their purpose was to come to the rescue of stricken ships, usually because of their towing ability, and to tow away ships damaged because of enemy action or engine...
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| x Coastal minesweeper |
Coastal minesweeper is a term used by the United States Navy to indicate a minesweeper intended for coastal use as opposed to participating in fleet operations at sea.
Because of its small size—usually less than 100 feet in length—and construction...
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| x Gasoline tanker |
Gasoline tankers came into use after the demise of the coal-carrying collier, which provided coal for ship's engines. With the advent of ships which ran on oil and used on board gasoline motors, and warships with aircraft which required gasoline,...
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| x Galeas |
The galeas is a small type of trade ship, which was common in the Baltic Sea and North Sea from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. The characteristics of the ships depend somewhat from where the ship originated. Swedish (and Finnish) versions had...
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| x Motor torpedo boat tender |
Motor torpedo boat tender is a type of ship used by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The Motor torpedo boat tender's task was to act as a tender in remote areas for patrol boats (PT-boats) and to provide the necessary fuel and provisions for the...
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| x Cotton-clad |
Cotton-clads were a classification of steam-powered warships where a wooden ship was protected from enemy fire by bales of cotton lining its sides. This provided some protection from enemy fire, but not to the extent of ironclads. Cotton-clads were...
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| x Patrol gunboat |
Patrol gunboat (hydrofoil) was a type of vessel built by the U.S. Navy in the 1970s and tested by the U.S. Coast Guard.
The distinction between a standard Navy gunboat, such as a PC, was that the patrol gunboat (hydrofoil) was very fast, capable of...
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| x Bawarij |
Bawarij were Indian corsairs that chased Arab shipping bound for India and China. They are mentioned by Ma'sudi as frequenting the pirate den at Socotra and Marco Polo describes them as pirates of Gujarat. Ibn Batuta describes them being warships...
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| x Collier |
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Collier is a historical term used to describe a bulk cargo ship designed to carry coal, especially for naval use by coal-fired warships.
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| x Trunk deck ship |
A trunk deck ship is a type of merchant ship with a hull that was stepped inward in order to obtain more favourable treatment under canal toll rules then in effect. As those tolls were set by net tonnage, a measure of volume, and as the tonnage...
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| x Amphibious assault ship |
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An amphibious assault ship (also referred to as a commando carrier or an amphibious assault carrier) is a type of amphibious warfare ship employed to land and support ground forces on enemy territory by an amphibious assault. The design evolved from...
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| x Tartane |
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A Tartane or tartan was a small ship used both as a fishing ship and for coastal trading in the Mediterranean. They were in use for over 300 years until the late 19th century. A tartane had a single mast on which was rigged a large lateen sail, and...
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| x Dispatch boat |
Dispatch boats were small boats, and sometimes large ships, tasked to carry military dispatches from ship to ship or from ship to shore or, in some cases from shore to shore. Dispatch boats were employed when other means of transmitting a message...
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| x Tweendeckers |
Tweendeckers are general cargo ships with two or sometimes three decks. The upper deck is called the main deck or weather deck, and the lower deck is the tweendeck. Cargo such as bales, bags, or drums can stacked in the tweendeck space, atop the...
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| x Danlayer |
A danlayer was a type of vessel assigned to minesweeping flotillas during and immediately after World War II. They were usually small trawlers, fitted for the purpose of laying dans. A dan is a marker buoy which consists of a long pole moored to the...
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| x Naval trawler |
A naval trawler is a boat built along the lines of a fishing trawler but fitted out for naval purposes.
Naval trawlers were widely used during the First and Second world wars. Fishing trawlers were particularly suited for many naval requirements...
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| x Four piper |
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The term four piper is United States Navy terminology for classes of destroyers with four funnels. These include the classes listed below:
These classes were built for use by the United States Navy during World War I and subsequently "moth-balled"....
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