Name

Claim to Fame

Type of Vessel

(Service Dates)

Note

American Essex-class aircraft carrier

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(August 16, 1943 - Currently a museum ship docked at New York City)

Upgraded several times; first American carrier to launch aircraft with steam catapults

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One of more than a dozen English and American ships and boats named Intrepid

British battelcruiser

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(April 13, 1907 - Sunk by the German battleship SMS Lützow at the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916)

One of seven ships named Invincible in the British navy from 1747 to the present

American ferry

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(1926 - moored at Tacoma, Washington)

Chinese three-masted trading junk

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(unknown - Neglected and rotted in England in 1855)

Norwegian built raft

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(1947 - On display in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo)

Spanish two-masted schooner, built in U.S.

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(Before 1838 - No record after 1844)

French barque  (2) 

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(Probably 1683 - wrecked in Matagorda Bay in 1686)

British luxury ocean liner

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(June 7, 1906 - Sank on May 7, 1915)

American battleship

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(November 18, 1889 - Sank on February 15, 1898)

American brigantine  (3)  originally named Amazon

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(1860 - intentionally scuttled on January, 1885)

British galleon

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(About 1608 - About 1624)

American ironclad warship

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(January 30, 1862 - Sank on December 31, 1862)

American submarine

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(January 21, 1954 - In use as a museum)

Spanish caravel with four masts

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(1492 - 1501)

Chinese 3-masted, 291 ton junk

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(1753 - Burned in Catalina Harbor in 1938)

Spanish caravel with three masts

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(Unknown - Unknown)

American motor torpedo boat

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(June 20, 1942 - Sunk August 2, 1943)

English sloop

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(1710 - Run aground near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina in May, 1718)

British luxury ocean liner

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(September 27, 1938 - After a fire, capsized in Hong Kong harbor, January 9, 1972)

British luxury ocean liner

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(September 16, 1924 - Retired in 1967 and served as a hotel from 1974 to present)

American river steamboat

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(September 16, 1924 - Caught fire and lost September 30, 1882)

Spanish carrack (hermaphrodite, cargo ship)

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(Unknown origin - Ran aground and lost, December 25, 1492)

American steamship with sails

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(March, 1819 - Ran aground off Long Island in 1823)

Scottish built, American owned three-masted windjammer

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(1888 - Wrecked on a reef at the island of Pacific, August 2, 1917)

American 104-foot wooden yacht

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(1926 - Refurbished many time; now privately owned)

Swedish luxury ocean liner

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(1948 - Still in use)

American hydroplane

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(October, 1949 - Wrecked in a pre-race test run in 1956; rebuilt and on exhibit at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry )

American nuclear submarine

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(July 9, 1960 - Sunk April 10, 1963)

British luxury ocean liner

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(May 31, 1911 - Sank Apr 15, 1912)

American ocean liner

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(July 4, 1952 - docked and deteriorating, future uncertain)

Spanish carrack or nao  (4) 

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(around 1518 - unknown)

Confederate ironclad warship

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(February, 1862 - Destroyed by crew May 11, 1862)

American steamboat with two masts

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(August 23, 1818 - Grounded on the beach October 31, 1821)

British warship

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(December 29, 1860 - Currently berthed in Portsmouth as a museum)

Japanese battleship

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(August 16, 1940 - Sunk north of Okinawa April 7, 1945 )

NOTES:    (2) A vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts.

    (3) Originally a small ship with sails and oars; from the Italian word brigantino, a brigand’s ship, because it was favored by Mediterranean pirates. Later “brigantine” referred to a two-masted sailing ship with a square-rigged fore-mast and fore-and-aft sails on its main mast.

    (4) Developed in the 15th century, a three- or four-masted ocean sailing ship with a high rounded stern with an aftcastle and a forecastle and bowsprit at the stem.

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