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| x Minelayer |
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HMS Apollo |
Minelaying is the act of deploying explosive mines. Historically this has been carried out by ships, submarines and aircraft. Additionally, since World War I the term minelayer refers specifically to a naval ship used for deploying naval mines. ...
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| HMS Intrepid | |||
| HMS Naiad | |||
| HMS Latona | |||
| HMS Iphigenia | |||
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| x Yacht |
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Octopus |
A yacht /ˈjɒt/ is a recreational boat or ship. The term originated from the Dutch Jacht meaning "hunt". It was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the...
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| Al Said | |||
| Dilbar | |||
| Amevi | |||
| Ecstasea | |||
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| x Full rigged ship |
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Columbia Rediviva |
A full rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with three or more masts, all of them square rigged. A full rigged ship is said to have a ship rig.
Sometimes such a vessel will merely be called a ship in 18th to early 19th century and...
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| James Baines | |||
| x Oil tanker |
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Condoleezza Rice |
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a merchant ship designed for the bulk transport of oil. There are two basic types of oil tankers: the crude tanker and the product tanker. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil...
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| MV Sirius Star | |||
| Velutina | |||
| Velletia | |||
| RFA Surf Patrol | |||
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| x Aframax |
An Aframax ship is an oil tanker smaller than 120,000 metric tonnes and with a breadth above 32.31 m. The term is based on the Average Freight Rate Assessment tanker rate system. Aframax class tankers are largely used in the basins of the Black Sea,...
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| x Handysize |
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Although there is no official definition in terms of exact tonnages, Handysize most usually refers to a dry bulk vessel (or, less commonly, to a product tanker) with deadweight of about 15,000–35,000 tons. Above this size are Handymax bulkers ...
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| x Cruiseferry |
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M/S Rosella |
A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship with a Ro-Pax ferry. Many passengers travel with the ships for the cruise experience, staying only a few hours at the destination port or not leaving the ship at all, while others...
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| x Suezmax |
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Suezmax is a naval architecture term for the largest ship measurements capable of transiting the Suez Canal in a laden condition, and is almost exclusively used in reference to tankers. Since the canal has no locks, the only serious limiting factors...
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| x T2 tanker |
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SS Marine Sulphur Queen |
The T2 tanker, or T2, was an oil tanker constructed and produced in large quantities in the United States during World War II. The largest "navy oilers" after the T3s at the time, nearly 500 of them were built between 1940 and the end of 1945. Many...
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| USNS Mission Buenaventura | |||
| SS Fort Lee | |||
| SS Schenectady | |||
| x Pre-dreadnought |
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ARA Almirante Brown |
Pre-dreadnought battleship is the general term for all of the types of sea-going battleships built between the mid-1890s and 1905. Pre-dreadnoughts replaced the ironclad warships of the 1870s and 1880s. Built from steel, and protected by hardened...
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| HMS Victorious | |||
| HMS Bulwark | |||
| French battleship Suffren | |||
| Masséna | |||
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| x Sixth-rate |
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HMS Lyme |
Sixth rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 20 and 24 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without.
Sixth-rate ships typically had a crew of about 150...
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| HMS Ariel | |||
| HMS Comus | |||
| HMS Hinchinbrook | |||
| HMS Cerberus | |||
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| x Fifth-rate |
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HMS Leda |
In Britain's Royal Navy during the classic age of fighting sail, a fifth rate was the penultimate class of warships in a hierarchal system of six "ratings" based on size and firepower.
The rating system in the British (originally English) Royal Navy...
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| HMS Diomede | |||
| HMS Santa Margarita | |||
| HMS Phoenix | |||
| HMS Fisgard | |||
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| x Semi-submersible |
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Leiv Eiriksson |
A semi-submersible is a specialised marine vessel with good stability and seakeeping characteristics. The semi-submersible vessel design is commonly used in a number of specific offshore roles such as for offshore drilling rigs, safety vessels, oil...
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| x Panamax |
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Panamax and New Panamax are terms for the size limits for ships traveling through the Panama Canal. Formally, the limits and requirements are published by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) titled "Vessel Requirements". These requirements also...
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| x Ocean liner |
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SS Uganda |
An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another along regular long-distance maritime routes according to a schedule. Liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (e.g., for...
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| SS Andrea Doria | |||
| RMS Scythia | |||
| RMS Laconia | |||
| RMS Laconia | |||
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| x Sloop-of-war |
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HMS Bulldog |
In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship (also known as one of the escort types) with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant...
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| HMS Cormorant | |||
| HMS Blossom | |||
| HMS Leith | |||
| HMS Enterprize | |||
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| x Caravel |
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Niña |
A caravel is a small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean. The lateen sails gave her speed and the capacity for sailing to windward ...
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| x Fourth-rate |
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HMS Exeter |
In the British Royal Navy, a fourth rate was, during the first half of the 18th century, a ship of the line mounting from 46 up to 60 guns. While the number of guns stayed subsequently in the same range up until 1817, after 1756 the ships of 50 guns...
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| HMS Deptford | |||
| HMS Winchester | |||
| HMS Strafford | |||
| HMS Dartmouth | |||
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| x Ironclad warship |
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French battleship La Gloire |
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary...
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| USS Camanche | |||
| HMS Hero | |||
| Richelieu | |||
| HMS Vanguard | |||
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| x Tugboat |
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Praia da Adraga |
A tugboat (tug) is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them. Tugs move vessels that either should not move themselves, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal, or those that cannot move by themselves, such as barges,...
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| Praia Grande | |||
| USS Wailaki | |||
| USS Wabaquasset | |||
| USS Challenge | |||
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| x Monitor |
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USS Monitor |
A monitor was a class of relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s until the end of World War II, and saw their final use by the...
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| USS Chickasaw | |||
| HMS Mersey | |||
| USS Nahant | |||
| HNoMS Thrudvang | |||
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| x Protected cruiser |
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DGzRS Arkona |
The protected cruiser is a type of naval cruiser of the late 19th century, so known because its armoured deck offered protection for vital machine spaces from shrapnel caused by exploding shells above. Protected cruisers were an alternative to the...
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| USS Cleveland | |||
| USS Charleston | |||
| USS Minneapolis | |||
| USS St. Louis | |||
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| x First-rate |
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HMS Sovereign of the Seas |
First rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for its largest ships of the line. While the size and establishment of guns and men changed over the 250 years that the rating system held sway, from the early years of the eighteenth century the...
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| HMS Britannia | |||
| HMS Windsor Castle | |||
| HMS Queen | |||
| French ship Royal Louis | |||
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| x Third-rate |
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HMS Worcester |
In the British Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third rate ships embodied...
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| HMS Kent | |||
| HMS Cornwall | |||
| HMS Warspite | |||
| HMS Norfolk | |||
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| x Barque | France II |
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.
The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish and...
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| HM Bark Endeavour | |||
| RRS Discovery | |||
| Le Griffon | |||
| Terra Nova | |||
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| x Brig |
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HMS Carnation |
A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and maneuverable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries....
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| HMS Detroit | |||
| HMS Wolfe | |||
| HMS Emulous | |||
| HMS Speedy | |||
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| x Steamboat |
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SS Columbia |
A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamships usually use the prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S.
The term steamboat...
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| RMS Carpathia | |||
| SS Mendi | |||
| RMS Leinster | |||
| SS Admella | |||
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| x Ship of the line |
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French ship Royal Louis |
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest...
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| French ship Ville de Paris | |||
| Spanish ship San Agustín | |||
| HMS Warspite | |||
| French ship Jean Bart | |||
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| x Clipper |
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Cutty Sark |
A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts and a square rig. They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limited bulk freight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total...
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| City of Adelaide | |||
| Ambassador | |||
| Fiery Cross | |||
| Royal Charter | |||
| x Baltimore Clipper |
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General Armstrong |
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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| HMS Black Joke | |||
| x Schooner |
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John Williams V |
A schooner ( /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 no taller than the rear masts.
Such vessels were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century...
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| HMS Widgeon | |||
| USS Van Buren | |||
| HMS Quail | |||
| HMS Woodcock | |||
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| x Cargo ship |
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Baychimo |
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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| USS Nashira | |||
| German night fighter direction vessel Togo | |||
| USS Aludra | |||
| USS Munaires | |||
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| x Frigate |
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HMS Surprise |
A frigate ( /ˈfrɪɡɨt/) is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.
In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the...
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| USS Farragut | |||
| HMS Didon | |||
| HMS Guerriere | |||
| HMS Kempthorne | |||
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