| Famous For | Ship |
| First named ship, carried Jason in Greek Mythology | |
| Columbus' Flagship on his most famous expedition | |
| Circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake | |
| Henry Hudson’s ship looking for Northwest Passage | |
| Transported the English Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 | |
| Flagship of pirate Blackbeard | |
| Warship commanded by John Paul Jones | |
| Mutiny aboard ship, April 28, 1789, led by Fletcher Christian against Captain William Bligh | |
| Oldest commissioned ship afloat in the world | |
| Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar | |
| Its second voyage carried Charles Darwin on his historic expedition | |
| In 1839, Africans being transported as slaves revolted against their captors aboard | |
| The world’s largest steamship; successfully laid cable across the Atlantic ocean cable | |
| With CSS Virginia, first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships | |
| | Famous For | Ship |
| During the American Civil War, the first submarine to sink a ship | |
| Its sinking precipitated the Spanish-American War | |
| First “all-big-gun” armament and steam turbine propulsion | |
| Sank after hitting iceberg in the Atlantic, claiming over 1500 lives | |
| Used by Sir Ernest Shackleton for the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition | |
| Torpedoed by the German submarine killing 1,198 people | |
| German Pocket Battleship, sank nine allied ships | |
| Churchill issued an order to 'Sink the ... | |
| The sunken ship lies in Pearl Harbor with a memorial above it honoring the crew lost | |
| Commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy | |
| The largest, heaviest, and most powerful battleship ever constructed | |
| Used by Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl to cross the Pacific | |
| World’s first nuclear-powered submarine | |
| World’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name | |
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