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  2. List of warships by nickname - Wikipedia

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    "Sally Rand" – HMCS St. Laurent (decommissioned) nickname of several ships which have been named St. Laurent, of which HMCS St. Laurent DDH 205 was the most recent. "San Francisco's Own" – USS Carl Vinson; Name bestowed upon the ship by then-mayor of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein. "Seapuppy" – USS Seawolf

  3. List of fictional ships - Wikipedia

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    HMS Cutlass – name given to four ships of the Royal Navy – the first a battleship present at the Battle of the Nile; the second an ironclad sunk in World War I; the third a World War II destroyer, and the most recent ship a Cold War-era destroyer. All four ships appear in the Commando Comics story Bright Blade of Courage.

  4. List of Dark Sun characters - Wikipedia

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    He rules a city-state that shares his name. [ 1 ] : 15 Also called the Shadow King for his reclusive nature, preferring arcane scholarship to the actual governance of his city-state. [ 1 ] : 59 In the 2nd and 3rd editions Nibenay previously left the ruling of his city-state to his exclusively female templars but took a more active role after ...

  5. List of ship types - Wikipedia

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    A term used for warships of many sizes and roles over the past few centuries Galleass A sailing and rowing warship, equally well suited to sailing and rowing Galleon A sixteenth century sailing warship Galley A warship propelled by oars with a sail for use in a favourable wind Galliot Name refers to several types of sailing vessel, usually two ...

  6. List of battleships - Wikipedia

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    The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically.. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called 'pre-dreadnought battleship', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.

  7. List of ship names of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    Altogether over 13,000 ships have been in service with the Royal Navy. [1] Unlike many other naval services, the Royal Navy designates certain types of shore establishment (e.g. barracks, naval air stations and training establishments) as "ships" and names them accordingly.

  8. List of fictional spacecraft - Wikipedia

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    "The Derelict" – the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the film Alien (1979) [48] Darksyde – The Predacon transwarp ship in the Beast Wars television series. [49] The name was spelled with a y in the Beast Wars video game and in the DVD box set.

  9. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships) - Wikipedia

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    When the name is ambiguous, append disambiguation information in parentheses. Santa María rather than Santa María; The date of launching should be used if there are several ships with the same name. Sometimes vessels will share a launch date as well as a name. In that case adding the place of launch is necessary: Mary (1806 ship)