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2. Santa Maria Ship & Museum - Wikipedia

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   The Santa Maria in 2008. The Santa Maria Ship & Museum was a museum ship in downtown Columbus, Ohio.The craft was a full-size replica of the Santa María, one of three ships Christopher Columbus used in 1492 during his first voyage to the Americas.

3. Santa María (ship) - Wikipedia

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   It was built by the Scarano Brothers Boat Building Company in Albany, New York, who later cut the ship in half and transported it by truck to the Scioto River. The replica cost about $1.2 million. The replica cost about $1.2 million.

4. Sturdivant Gang - Wikipedia

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   In 1829, Bloody Jack Sturdivant was a dealer in a faro card game and cheated a friend of James Bowie named Dr. William Lattimore, out his money. Bowie, who sat for the next hand, won back all the money lost by his friend, which caused "Bloody Jack" Sturdivant to feel slighted and he foolishly challenged Bowie to a knife duel.

5. Squib-class torpedo boat - Wikipedia

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   The vessel was described as having "fair speed for a boat of her kind" by a Union engineer. [3] All of the vessels of the class carried a crew of five or six. [ 10 ] They were armed with a single spar torpedo , which was mounted on a shaft that was either 18 feet (5.5 m) according to naval historian Paul H. Silverstone [ 9 ] or 16 feet (4.9 m ...

6. USS Columbus (SSN-762) - Wikipedia

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   USS Columbus (SSN-762) is a Los Angeles-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine and the second vessel of the United States Navy to be named for Columbus, Ohio.The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 21 March 1986 and her keel was laid down on 9 January 1991.

7. List of ships of the Confederate States Navy - Wikipedia

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   The Secretary of the CS Navy, Stephen Mallory, was very aggressive on a limited budget in a land-focused war, and developed a two-pronged warship strategy of building ironclad warships for coastal and national defense, and commerce raiding cruisers, supplemented with exploratory use of special weapons such as torpedo boats and torpedoes.