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This ship was the first nuclear powered submarine and also the ship in Jules Verne's classic "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" | Nautilius |
The ship was the pride of the White Star Line and sunk after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912. | Titanic |
This was the ship commandered by Captain Ahab in Moby Dick | Pequot |
This was the ship Charles Darwin sailed on when he investigated animal species | The Beagle |
These ships had an epic duel during the Civil War, there battle was inconclusive. They were the world's first ironclads | The Virignia (Conferederate bettern known as The Merrimack), vs the Monitor (Union) |
This ship was sunk in the closing months of World War II attempting to evacuate civilians and soldiers from the approaching Soviet Army | Wilhelm Gerstloff (More people were killed than on the Titanic) |
These group of ships attempted to invade England in 1588 and were defeated. The remnants of the fleet were destroyed in a storm off the Irish coast. | The Spanish Armada |
This aircraft carrier became famous in the Pacific campaigns during World War II. It was known as the "Fighting I" | Intrepid |
This aircraft carrier was sunk in the aftermath of the Battle of Midway | Yorktown (It was sunk by a Japanese submarine) |
This ship was attacked by the Israeli military during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. The Israelis claimed it was a case of mistaken identity. | The Liberty |
Admiral Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar | HMS Victory |
The lunar landing craft of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 | The Eagle (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were in the craft). |
John Paul Jones ship during the American Revolution | Bonhomme Richard (defeated the HMS Serapis) |
The ship commanded by Captain Bligh that was taken over by a mutiny of the crew led by Fletcher Christian | HMS Bounty |
The submarine that the Confederacy experimented with during the American Civil War | The Hunley |
The ship that blew up in Havanna harbor stoking American opinion for war with Spain in 1898. | The Maine |
The Tom Clancy novel, based on a true story, which featured the captain of a Soviet nuclear submarine defecting. | Red October (The novel was The Hunt for Red October) |
The battleship developed by the British at the beginning of the 20th century which revolutionized ship design | Dreadnought |
Columbus' ships which he used to sail westward and eventually discovered the Americas. | Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria |
The most famous of the Confederate ironclads that were built in British shipyards which attacked Union shipping. | The Alabama (There were several of these raiders, after the war the British agreed to compensate the U.S. This was known as the Alabama Claims) |
This ship was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915 after it left NY for Britain | The Lusitania |
This battleship was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is now a memorial. | The Arizona |
This ship distinguished itself in the War of 1812 and is now a museum in Boston Harbor | The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) |
This ship was sunk in 1945 after delivering the atom bomb to the island of Tinian in the Pacific | Indianapolis (It is the largest loss of life from a single ship in American Naval History) |
This ship carried the Pilgrims to what would become Massachusetts | The Mayflower |
This was Hans Solo's ship in Star Wars | Millenium Falcon |
This ship was Captain Sisko's ship on Star Trek Deep Space 9 | The Defiant |
This is the newest of the Star Trek franchise streaming on CBS. | Discovery |
The ship on the original Star Trek series which debuted in 1967 | Enterprise |
This German ship from World War II was sunk in 1941, named for a former German chancellor who was responsible for uniting Germany in 1871. Also the capital of North Dakota. | Bismark |
This ship, named for an Italian admiral, collided with the Stockholm off of Nantucket in 1956. | Andrea Doria |
This oil tanker struck a reef and spilled its cargo off of Prince William Sound Alaska causing the world's worst oil spill | The Exxon Valdez |
This Russian ship saw a mutiny of its crew in 1905 due to harsh conditions. | The Potemkin |