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1937 ships (1 C, 252 P) (previous page) This page was last edited on 25 March 2021, at 01:56 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in World War II and the largest naval battle in history in terms of ship displacement, area, and the number of (confirmed) personnel involved; 1951: The first purpose-built container ships enter operation. 1955: USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's first nuclear-powered vessel, is launched.
In general, labels for ships of a single class are aligned vertically with the topmost ship in a column carrying the class name. In an attempt to show the full timeline of the actual existence of each ship, the final dates on each bar may variously be the date struck, sold, scrapped, scuttled, sunk as a reef, etc., as appropriate to show last time it existed as a floating object.
The term "largest passenger ship" has evolved over time to also include ships by length as supertankers built by the 1970s were over 400 metres (1,300 ft) long. In the modern era the term has gradually fallen out of use in favor of "largest cruise ship" as the industry has shifted to cruising rather than transatlantic ocean travel. [1]
Ships by year (287 C). Merchant ships by period (5 C) Naval ships by period (36 C) + Ships of the United States by period (8 C) A. Age of Sail ships (15 C, 9 P)
List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), [ 1 ] although it does not include early vessels.
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