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19th-century naval ships (6 C, 2 P) V. Victorian-era ships (6 C, 4 P) Pages in category "19th-century ships" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Her around the world voyages paid for the ship and earned $80,000 for her owners. Her end came in 1861 when she caught fire off Pernambuco, Brazil. Stornoway: 1850 United Kingdom : Wrecked in 1873 157.8 ft (48.1 m) Stornoway was a British tea clipper built in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1850. Surprise [6]: 46 [7]: 344 1850 United States
Educational vessel; replica 19th century Gulf Coast freighter 2 masted gaff [62] R. Tucker Thompson: 1985 Opua, Bay of Islands: Sail training/tourism vessel 2 masted gaff, square topsails Rainbow Warrior (1989) 1957 Amsterdam: Former commercial trawler, converted and re-launched by Greenpeace in 1989 3 masted gaff Rainbow Warrior (2011) 2011
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
However, in the early 19th century, as trade with America became more common, schedule regularity became a valuable service. Starting in 1818, ships of the Black Ball Line began regularly scheduled trips between Britain and America.
The delay cost British and American a critical 18 months while work on Great Western continued. [6] Originally, the first British and American liner was to be named Royal Victoria after Princess Victoria, but the name was changed to British Queen when the ship was launched on 24 May 1838 because Victoria had just ascended to the throne. When ...
The surviving section of the ship and thousands of recovered artefacts are of great value as a Tudor period time capsule. The excavation and raising of the Mary Rose was a milestone in the field of maritime archaeology, comparable in complexity and cost to the raising of the 17th-century Swedish warship Vasa in 1961.
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.