• Achille Lauro
• Andrea Gail
• Appomattox 1893-1916 (renamed Seyer 1910), banana boat of Fyffes Line.
• Appomattox, one of the largest wooden ships ever built (97.2m).
• RMS Aquitania
• SS Arizona
• RMS Lusitania, Sunk by a German U boat on May 7, 1915 sinks in 18 minutes.
• SS Andrea Doria
• Atlas V (fr:Atlas V)
• Bluenose
• Renown (1888 barque), sunk for the shores of Den Helder, saved by the heroic Dorus Rijkers
• SS Britannic
• RMS Britannic, served as both civilian and war ship.
• RV Calypso
• TSS Camito, banana boat of Fyffes Line.
• SS Cap Arcona, served as both civilian and war ship.
• RMS Carpathia
• SS Central America, 1850s side wheel paddle steamer.
• Chickahominy (ship), banana boat of Fyffes Line.
• SS Cuba
• Cutty Sark, clipper.
• S.S Earnmoor, Steamship sunk in 1889 off of the West Indies. The second mate along with a few other survived a drift of 1,200 miles and 3 weeks in an open boat.
• SS Edmund Fitzgerald
• El Horria, oldest steamship still in service.
• Exxon Valdez
• TSS Fairstar
• RV Farley Mowat, flagship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
• Flying Cloud
• Fram
• SS Galileo Galilei, also known as SS Galileo and SS Meridian. Renamed SS Sun Vista before sinking in 1999.
• General Slocum
• Glomar Explorer
• TSS Golfito, banana boat of Fyffes Line.
• SS Great Eastern
• SS Great Britain
• Greenbriar (ship), banana boat of Fyffes Line.
• Halve Maen (Half Moon)
• Innisfallen
• M/V Kalakala
• Kon-Tiki
• Lady Nelson
• RMS Lusitania
• RMS Mauretania
• The Mayflower
• Nimrod
• Niña
• SS Normandie
• RMS Olympic, served as both civilian and war ship.
• Oracabessa, banana boat of Fyffes Line.
• Pinta
• Princess Alice
• RMS Queen Elizabeth
• RMS Queen Elizabeth 2
• RMS Queen Mary
• RMS Queen Mary 2, currently largest ocean liner.
• MS Queen Victoria
• Rainbow Warrior
• HMS Resolution
• Santa Maria
• SS Savannah and NS Savannah
• MV Steve Irwin, ship in use by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
• Thermopylae
• SS Tilapa, banana boat of Fyffes Line.
• RMS Titanic
• Tyger
• Victoria
• Wawona
• MV Doulos, World's oldest ocean going passenger ship, built in 1914.
• Biuki Gasa's Solomon Islands, dugout canoe used to find John. F. Kennedy and crew of the PT-109. Replica presented to United States in 2002.
• Exodus Ship with the first remnants of Jews returning to The Promised Land History of the Jews in the Land of Israel.

• HMNZS Achilles - fought the Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate.
• Admiral Graf Spee - Pride of German Navy in early WWII, scuttled after the Battle of the River Plate.
• HMS Ajax - fought the Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate.
• Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi - the flagship of the Kido Butai.
• USS Arizona - American battleship destroyed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, turned into a memorial.
• HMS Ark Royal - both HMS Ark Royal (91) and HMS Ark Royal (R09) - British aircraft carriers; the first, famous for its aircraft delivering the crippling blow to the Bismarck, the second was the last conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier in Royal Navy service.
• HMS Beagle - Ship on which Charles Darwin travelled to the Galapagos Islands, where he first formulated his ideas of evolution.
• HMS Belfast - light cruiser that participated in Operation Zipper, now moored on the River Thames in London.
• HMS Bellerophon, she became famous for transporting Napoleon to Saint Helena in 1815.
• German battleship Bismarck
• USS Bonhomme Richard - John Paul Jones' frigate, defeated HMS Serapis.
• HMHS Britannic (1914) - served and sunk during World War I, was the sister ship of RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.
• RMS Britannic (1929) - served as both a civilian motor liner and as a troop ship during WWII.
• HMS Bounty - William Bligh's ship, famous for the mutiny that occurred on it.
• Japanese heavy cruiser Chōkai - flagship of Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunichi during the battle of Savo Island.
• USS Constitution - oldest warship still in commission afloat. Widely cited as the most famous U.S. warship of all time.
• HMS Discovery
• HMS Dreadnought - the first idea of a modern battleship.
• HM Bark Endeavour - Cook's ship
• HMS Erebus - British bombship that explored Antarctica.
• USS Enterprise - first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
• USS Enterprise - most decorated carrier in World War Two
• ARA General Belgrano - sunk by the Royal Navy in the Falklands War
• Gloire - first large iron capital ship
• Golden Hind - Francis Drake's ship, used to circumnavigate the globe.
• HMS Hood - pride of the British fleet between WWI and WWII, sunk by the Bismarck in 1941
• KMS Scharnhorst German Battle-cruiser sunk at the Battle of the North Cape by HMS Duke of York.
• H. L. Hunley - The Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in combat (USS Housatonic during the American Civil War).
• Imo - relief vessel involved in collision which led to the Halifax Explosion
• USS Indianapolis Carried the Atomic Bombs to Guam.
• HMS Iron Duke
• USS Maine - battleship that mysteriously blew up while visiting Cuba in 1898.
• Mary Rose - Henry VIII's flagship which sank in 1545.
• Medusa - Known for Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
• Mikasa - Togo's flagship at Battle of Tsushima.
• USS Missouri - American battleship upon which the Japanese signed the surrender documents, ending World War II
• USS Monitor - first ironclad ship featuring its main armament in a revolving turret.
• Mont-Blanc - Munitions ship involved in collision that led to the Halifax Explosion.
• Japanese battleship Nagato - flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• USS Nautilus - first nuclear submarine
• USS Nimitz - first of newest class of US aircraft carrier
• RMS Olympic - served as both civilian and war ship
• PT-109 - President John F. Kennedy's infamous command in WWII.
• HMS Ramillies British battleship in World Wars One and Two
• HMS Rattler and HMS Alecto - conducted tug-of-war between paddle and screw ships
• USS San Antonio - American amphibious transport dock.
• Santisima Trinidad (1769) Famous for her size.
• HMS Sovereign of the Seas (1637) Charles I's prestige battleship - largest warship of her day
• USS Taney - American Coast Guard cutter, survived the attack on pearl harbor, on display as a museum ship in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
• Temeraire - second in the line behind HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. Famous as the subject of paintings by J. M. W. Turner.
• HMS Terror - British bombship, participated in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814
• USS Texas - American New York Class Battleship. Served in both World War I and World War II. Was part of Operation Overlord and saw action in Iwo Jima.
• German battleship Tirpitz - WWII sistership of the Bismarck.
• USS Torsk - American submarine, on display in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
• USS Triton - nuclear radar picket submarine - first with two reactors - first to sail around the world underwater
• Regalskeppet Vasa - Swedish galleon that sank in 1628, since restored and displayed at the Vasa Museum
• HMS Victory - Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar and the oldest warship still in commission
• CSS Virginia - Confederate ironclad that was the nemesis of the USS Monitor at the Battle of Hampton Roads
• HMAS Voyager
• HMS Warrior - first ocean-going iron ship
• Japanese battleship Yamato - Largest battleship ever built, also mounting the largest caliber main armament ever built, at 18.1 inches in diameter
• USS Yorktown US Navy aircraft carrier, sunk in the Battle of Midway.

• List of fictional ships

These are lists of ships.

• List of ocean liners
• List of cruise ships

• List of aircraft carriers
• List of battleships
• List of cruisers

• Germany: List of naval ships of Germany
• Japan: List of ships of the Japanese Navy
• New Zealand: List of ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy
• United Kingdom: List of Royal Navy ships
• United States: List of United States Navy ships

• List of World War II ships

• List of shipwrecks | by year

• List of world's longest ships
• List of world's largest wooden ships

• Ship launches by year
• Ship commissionings by year
• Ship decommissionings by year
• Shipwrecks by year

• List of fictional ships

The top 25 nations by 2008 Summer Olympics medals per capita are:^[1]

Rank	Nations	Medals	Population per medal
1	Bahamas (BAH)	2	153,725
2	Jamaica (JAM)	11	254,939
3	Iceland (ISL)	1	304,367
4	Slovenia (SLO)	5	401,542
5	Australia (AUS)	46	447,844
6	New Zealand (NZL)	9	463,717
7	Norway (NOR)	10	464,445
8	Cuba (CUB)	24	475,998
9	Armenia (ARM)	6	494,764
10	Belarus (BLR)	19	509,777
11	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	2	523,683
12	Estonia (EST)	2	653,802
13	Lithuania (LTU)	5	713,041
14	Bahrain (BRN)	1	718,306
15	Latvia (LAT)	3	748,474
16	Mongolia (MGL)	4	749,020
17	Georgia (GEO)	6	771,806
18	Denmark (DEN)	7	783,531
19	Slovakia (SVK)	6	874,124
20	Croatia (CRO)	5	898,284
21	Hungary (HUN)	10	993,091
22	Netherlands (NED)	16	1,040,332
23	Azerbaijan (AZE)	7	1,168,245
24	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	12	1,180,041
25	Switzerland (SUI)	6	1,263,586

• LA Times Medals per Capita blog