Share This
table started by
skud for the More boats Base
Any specific water-going vessel, floating or submersible, from dinghies to ocean-liners. (General types of vessels should use the vessel class type instead.)
Add More Topics
Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.
1,127 Vessel topics matching:
Filter this Collection| x name | x image | x Vessel class | x Use | x Built by | x article |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x USS Constitution |
|
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat in the world....
|
|||
| x Batavia |
|
Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She was built in Amsterdam in 1628, and had 24 cast-iron cannons. Batavia was shipwrecked on her maiden voyage, and made famous by the subsequent mutiny and massacre that took place among the...
|
|||
| x Star of India |
|
Star of India was built in 1863 as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron windjammer ship in Ramsey, Isle of Man. After a full career sailing from Great Britain to India then to New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska then to California route....
|
|||
| x HMS Victory |
|
HMS Victory is a first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, started in 1759 and launched in 1765, most famous as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar. She is the oldest naval ship still in commission, and now sits in dry dock in...
|
|||
| x Cutty Sark |
|
The Cutty Sark is a clipper ship. Built in 1869, she served as a merchant vessel (the last clipper to be built for that purpose), and then as a training ship until being put on public display in 1954. She is preserved in dry dock in Greenwich,...
|
|||
| x HM Bark Endeavour |
|
HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 to 1771.
Launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke,...
|
|||
| x USS Constellation |
|
USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war, and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. According to the US Naval Registry, the original frigate was disassembled on 25 June 1853, in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk,...
|
|||
| x HMS Bellerophon |
|
The first HMS Bellerophon of the Royal Navy was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched on 6 October 1786 at Frindsbury on the River Medway, near Chatham. She was built at the shipyard of Edward Greaves to the specifications of the Arrogant,...
|
|||
| x Dar Pomorza |
|
The Dar Pomorza is a Polish sailing frigate, currently preserved in Gdynia as a museum ship.
The ship was built in 1909 by Blohm + Voss and in 1910 dedicated by Deutscher Schulschiff-Verein as German training ship Prinzess Eitel Friedrich. In 1920...
|
|||
| x Golden Hind |
|
The Golden Hind (or Golden Hinde) (pronounced /ˈhaɪnd/) was an English galleon best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known as the Pelican, but was later renamed by Drake...
|
|||
| x Amerigo Vespucci |
|
The Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Marina Militare, named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Its home port is Livorno, Italy. As of 2008, she is still in use as a school ship.
In 1925, the Regia Marina ordered two school ships to be built...
|
|||
| x Gorch Fock |
|
The Gorch Fock I (ex Tovarishch, ex Gorch Fock) is a German three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933. She was taken as war reparations by the USSR after World War II and renamed Tovarishch....
|
|||
| x USCGC Eagle |
|
The USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) (ex-Horst Wessel) is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She and the USS Constitution are the only active commissioned sailing vessels in American...
|
|||
| x USS President |
|
USS President was a 44-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy, one of the original six frigates that the Naval Act of 1794 had authorized. Her designer was Joshua Humphreys, and she was built in New York City, the last of the six to be...
|
|||
| x James Craig |
|
The James Craig is a three-masted, iron-hulled barque restored and sailed by the Sydney Maritime Museum.
Built in 1874 in Sunderland, England, by Bartram, Haswell, & Co., she was originally named the Clan Macleod. She was employed carrying cargo...
|
|||
| x HMS Java |
|
HMS Java was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, originally launched in 1805 as the Renommée, a 38-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy. The British captured her in 1811 in a noteworthy action, the Battle of Tamatave, but she is...
|
|||
| x Royal Clipper |
|
The Royal Clipper is a steel-hulled five masted fully rigged tall ship used as a cruise ship. She was designed by Zygmunt Choreń, and built using an existing steel hull that was modified by the Gdańsk Shipyard, and the Merwede shipyard completed the...
|
|||
| x St. Roch |
|
St. Roch is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America, and the second sailing vessel to complete a voyage through the Northwest Passage. It was the first ship to complete the Northwest...
|
|||
| x Gorch Fock |
|
The Gorch Fock is a tall ship of the German Navy (Deutsche Marine). She is the second ship of that name and a sister ship of the Gorch Fock built in 1933. Both ships are named in honor of the German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pseudonym ...
|
|||
| x Pilgrim |
|
The Pilgrim was a sailing brig (180 tons, 86.5 feet long) engaged in the California hide trade of the early 19th century. Although just one among many other ships engaged in the business, the Pilgrim was immortalized by one of her sailors, Richard...
|
|||
| x Kalmar Nyckel |
|
The Kalmar Nyckel (Key of Kalmar) was a Dutch built armed merchant ship noted for carrying Swedish settlers in 1638 to establish the colony of New Sweden. A re-creation of the ship was launched in Wilmington, Delaware in 1997.
The Kalmar Nyckel was...
|
|||
| x USS Chesapeake |
|
USS Chesapeake was a 38-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy and one of the original six frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794. Originally designed by Joshua Humphreys as a 44-gun frigate, builder Josiah Fox altered...
|
|||
| x Falls of Clyde |
|
Falls of Clyde is the last surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full rigged ship, and the only remaining sail-driven oil tanker. Designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1989, she is presently a museum ship in Honolulu, but has deteriorated to...
|
|||
| x HMS Surprise |
|
HMS Surprise is a modern tall ship, built at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada as Rose in 1970 to a Phil Bolger design based on the original 18th century British Admiralty drawings. She is a replica of HMS Rose, a sixth-rate frigate built in 1757.
The...
|
|||
| x Jolie Brise |
|
Jolie Brise is a gaff-rigged pilot cutter built and launched by the Albert Paumelle Yard in Le Havre in 1913 to a design by Alexandre Pâris. After a short career as a pilot boat, owing to steam replacing sail, she became a fishing boat.
Bought by E....
|
|||
| x Joseph Conrad |
The Joseph Conrad is a sailing ship originally launched as the Georg Stage in 1882 and used to train sailors in Denmark, then bought in 1934 and renamed by Alan Villiers for a round-the-world cruise, and later used for training by the United States....
|
||||
| x Charles W. Morgan |
|
Charles W. Morgan was a U.S. whaleship during the 19th and early 20th century. Ships of this type usually harvested the blubber of whales for whale oil, which was commonly used in lamps during the time period. The ship is currently an exhibit at the...
|
|||
| x Albatros |
Albatross, originally named Albatros, later Alk, was a sailing ship built as a schooner at the state shipyard in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1920, to serve as a pilot boat in the North Sea.
The Albatross spent two decades working the North Sea before...
|
||||
| x Rover |
In 1867, the American merchant bark, Rover, wrecked off the coast of Formosa. The crew that survived the wreck were killed by local aboriginals, a band of warriors from the Kaolut tribe, in revenge for earlier killings of tribe members by foreigners...
|
||||
| x Niña |
|
The Niña (the Spanish word for "little girl") was one of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage towards the Indies in 1492. The real name of the Niña was Santa Clara. The name Niña was probably a pun on the name of her...
|
|||
| x RMS Tayleur |
The RMS Tayleur was a fully-rigged iron clipper chartered by the White Star Line. She was large, fast and technically advanced. She ran aground and sank on her maiden voyage in 1854. The sinking was caused both by an inexperienced crew and faulty...
|
||||
| x Stavros S Niarchos |
|
The Stavros S Niarchos is a British brig-rigged tall ship owned and operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust. She is primarily designed to provide young people with the opportunity to undertake voyages as character-building exercises, rather than pure...
|
|||
| x HMS Sultana |
HMS Sultana was a small Royal Navy schooner that patrolled the American coast from 1768 through 1772, preventing smuggling and collecting duties. She was retired when unrest in Britain's American colonies required larger, better armed patrol craft....
|
||||
| x HMS Agamemnon |
|
HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and fought in many of the major naval battles of those conflicts. She is remembered as...
|
|||
| x Belem |
|
The Belem is a three-masted barque from France.
She was originally a cargo ship, transporting sugar from the West Indies, cocoa, and coffee from Brazil and French Guiana to Nantes, France. By chance she escaped the eruption of the Mount Pelée in...
|
|||
| x HMS Shannon |
|
HMS Shannon was a 38-gun Leda class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. She won a noteworthy naval victory on 1 June 1813, during the latter conflict, against the American Navy's...
|
|||
| x Champion of the Seas |
Champion of the Seas was the second large clipper ship destined for the Liverpool, England - Melbourne, Australia passenger service. Champion was ordered by James Baines of the Black Ball Line from Donald McKay. She was launched April 19, 1854 and...
|
||||
| x Lawhill |
|
The Lawhill was a steel-hulled four-masted barque rigged in "jubilee" or "baldheaded" fashion, i.e. without royal sails over the topgallant sails, active in the early part of the 20th century. Although her career was not especially remarkable, save...
|
|||
| x Balclutha |
|
Balclutha, also known as Star of Alaska, Pacific Queen, or Sailing Ship BALCLUTHA, is a steel-hulled full rigged ship that was built in 1886. She is the only square rigged ship left in the San Francisco Bay area and is representative of several...
|
|||
| x C.A. Thayer |
|
The C.A. Thayer is a schooner built in 1895, now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. She is one of the few survivors of the sailing schooners in the West coast lumber trade to San Francisco from Washington, Oregon, and...
|
|||
| x Alma |
|
The Alma is an 1891 built scow schooner, which is now preserved as a National Historic Landmark at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California.
The Alma is a flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 by Fred...
|
|||
| x Solway Lass |
|
Solway Lass is a two-masted schooner. She was built in the Netherlands in 1902, and is currently operated by Southern Cross Sailing Adventures out of Airlie Beach, Australia. She is chartered for 3-day sailing holidays in the Whitsunday Islands.
The...
|
|||
| x HMS Orion |
HMS Orion was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 1 June 1787 to the design of the Canada-class, by William Bately. She took part in all the major actions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...
|
||||
| x Picton Castle |
|
The Picton Castle is a tall ship employed in sail training. The Picton Castle undertakes 13-month round-the-world voyages, among a variety of shorter voyages along the east coast of the Americas. The Picton Castle's home port is historic Lunenburg,...
|
|||
| x Earl of Pembroke |
|
Earl of Pembroke is a tall ship, currently being used for historical films. She can also be rented for excursions.
She was built in Pukavik, Sweden as "Orion" in 1945 or 1948, available sources disagree. Until 1974, the ship was used to haul timber...
|
|||
| x Kaskelot |
|
Kaskelot is the flagship of the Square Sail fleet and is based out of her homeport of Charlestown, Cornwall, UK (though registered to Bristol). She is a three-masted barque and one of the largest remaining wooden ships in commission. The Kaskelot...
|
|||
| x Phoenix |
|
The Phoenix was built by Hjorne & Jakobsen at Frederikshavn, Denmark in 1929 as an Evangelical Mission Schooner.
Twenty years later she retired from missionary work and carried cargo until her engine room was damaged by fire. In 1974 she was bought...
|
|||
| x Marco Polo |
The Marco Polo was a 3-masted wooden clipper ship, launched in 1851 at Saint John, New Brunswick. She was named after Venetian explorer Marco Polo.
She measured 184 feet in length, with a beam of 36 feet and draught of 29 feet. She displaced 1625...
|
||||
| x HMS Hermione |
|
HMS Hermione was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was notorious for having the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw her commander and most of the officers killed. The mutineers then handed the ship over to the...
|
|||
| x Ariel |
|
Ariel was a clipper ship famous for making fast voyages between China and England in the late 1860s.
Ariel was a full rigged ship of 853 tons net register, measuring 197.4 feet x 33.9 feet x 21 feet. She was designed by William Rennie, and built in...
|
|||
| x Enterprize |
|
The topsail schooner, Enterprize, was built in Hobart, Tasmania in 1829 by William Pender. It was used for coastal transport of cargo such as coal, livestock, and supplies.
A replica of the Enterprize was launched in Melbourne, Australia in 1997....
|
|||
| x Lightning |
|
Lightning was a clipper ship, one of the last really large extreme clippers to be built in the USA. She was built by Donald McKay for James Baines of the Black Ball Line, Liverpool, for the Australia trade.
Lightning was the most extreme example of...
|
|||
| x Blackadder |
Blackadder was a clipper ship, a sister ship to Hallowe'en, built in 1870 by Maudslay, Sons & Field at Greenwich for John Willis.
Blackadder was dismasted on her maiden voyage due to failures in the mast fittings and rigging. John Willis took legal...
|
||||
| x Hallowe'en |
Hallowe’en was a clipper ship, measuring 216.6ft x 35.2ft x 20.5ft and with a tonnage of 920 tons. She was built in 1870 by Maudslay, Sons & Field at Greenwich for John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis, and was a sister ship to Blackadder.
Due to faults in...
|
||||
| x Lothair |
Lothair was an iron-hulled clipper ship of 794 tons, built in 1869 by William Walker at Rotherhithe for their own shipping business. In 1873, she was purchased by Killick, Martin & Co. and sailed to ports like London, New York, Yokohama and Hong...
|
||||
| x Leander |
Leander was a composite built clipper ship, measuring 215.5ft x 35.2ft x 20.7ft, 848 tons net. She was designed by Bernard Waymouth, and built in 1867 by J G Lawrie of Glasgow for Joseph Somes.
Before 1871, Leander sailed between London and the Far...
|
||||
| x Norman Court |
|
Norman Court was a composite built clipper ship, designed by William Rennie, measuring 197.4ft x 33ft x 20ft, of 833.87 tons net. The ship was built in 1869 by A & J Inglis of Glasgow. On the night of 29 March 1883 in a strong gale it was driven...
|
|||
| x Tsaitsing |
Taitsing was a composite built clipper ship, measuring 192ft x 31.5ft x 20.15ft. She was built in 1865 by Charles Connell & Co, Glasgow.
The ship sailed from London to Chinese ports like Amoy, Hong Kong, Woosung, Foochow and Shanghai. It also...
|
||||
| x Sir Lancelot |
Sir Lancelot was a clipper ship, measuring 197.6ft x 33.7ft x 21ft, and of 886 tons net. She was built in 1865 by Robert Steele & Co, Greenock, '...a beautiful tea clipper', called the Yacht of the Indian Ocean. 'Sir Lancelot of a hundred famous...
|
||||
| x Christian Radich |
|
Christian Radich is a Norwegian full rigged ship, named after a Norwegian shipowner. The vessel was built at Framnæs shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway, and was delivered on 17 June 1937. The owner was The Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation...
|
|||
