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CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the razéed (cut down) original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack.
Virginia is the name of several ships: Virginia (pinnace) or Virginia of Sagadahoc, a pinnace built in 1607-08 by colonists at the Popham Colony; Virginia (schooner), a wooden replica schooner launched in 2005; HMS Virginia, a 32-gun frigate; USS Virginia, many ships by the name; USRC Virginia, many ships of the US Revenue Cutter Service
The Virginia-class, which envisions a class size of 66 attack submarines, is the most recent class to use state names, with 28 of the active and announced boats being named after US states, though that convention appears to have changed.
[96] [97] Thomas Gates had ships Sarah, [98] Tryall [note 8], Swan [note 9] which arrived just after the Dale flotilla. Those who died before arriving in Virginia are indicated with a Latin cross ( ️) John Clark, pilot [101] Thomas Dale, "Marshall of Virginia", on the Starr; ️ Mistress Thomas Gates, wife of Gates [102] Daughter of Gates (I)
Christopher Newport (b. 1561 – d. 1617) was an English seaman and privateer.He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
United States Lightship 101, now known as Portsmouth as a museum ship, was first stationed at Cape Charles, Virginia. Today she is at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum in Portsmouth, Virginia. Portsmouth never had a lightship station; however, when the vessel was dry docked there as a museum, she took on the pseudonym Portsmouth.
The London Company sent an expedition to establish a settlement in the Virginia Colony in December 1606. The expedition consisted of three ships, Susan Constant (the largest ship, sometimes known as Sarah Constant, Christopher Newport captain and in command of the group), Godspeed (Bartholomew Gosnold captain), and Discovery (the smallest ship, John Ratcliffe captain).
USS Texas (SSN-775) is a Virginia-class submarine, and the fourth warship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of Texas. Texas was commissioned as a US Navy warship in Galveston, Texas , on 9 September 2006.