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This is a list of ships of the line of the United States Navy. Because of the operating expense, a number of these were never launched. These ships were maintained on the stocks, sometimes for decades, in case of an urgent need. [1] [2] [3]
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.
The original 1920s edition of the H. P. Gibson naval board game Dover Patrol used a number of real RN ship names, but generally attached them to different ship classes. Thus the " Flagships " were H.M.S. Nelson and Drake , and the " Super Dreadnoughts " were H.M.S. Australia , New Zealand , Canada and India , but few of these resembled the ...
An article about a ship not known to have a prefix should use only the ship's name, if that name is unambiguous: Niña; Since the optional prefix is, in fact, optional, it may be omitted for ships with unambiguous names even when common prefixes (e.g. MS or MV) are sometimes used for them in other sources:
Hospital ships (AH) were given names related to their function, such as Comfort and Mercy. Landing ship, tank (LST) built for the United States Navy during and immediately after World War II were only given an LST-number hull designation, but on 1 July 1955, county or Louisiana-parish names were assigned to those ships which remained in service ...
M.S. Aramis, circa 1932 Teiyō Maru as a repatriation ship, circa 1943: SS Argentina (1929) 1929 SS Pennsylvania (1929–1938) Scrapped in 1964 One of the 3 sister ships of Argentina, it's unknown which one it is as the name was omitted from the bow. SS Arundel Castle: 1894 SS Birma (1905–1913) SS Mitava (1913–1921) SS Josef Pilsudski (1921 ...
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Zumwalt-class ships use an Integrated Power System (IPS), a modern version of a turbo-electric drive system. The IPS is a dual system, with each half consisting of a gas turbine prime mover directly coupled to an electrical generator, providing power for an electric motor that drives a propeller shaft.