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"Nasty Nick" – USS Nicholas, name given by crew due to the proclivity of the ship's AC units to break down in hot weather. "Nelly" – HMS Nelson – also "Nelsol" – from fleet oilers with names ending in "ol" that the Nelson class looked similar to in silhouette. "Niffy Jane" – HMS Iphigenia "NO Boat" – USS New Orleans
Dreadnought. Austro-Hungarian Navy. Torpedoed by Italian MAS 15 off Premuda, 10 June 1918 – sinking was filmed. Tango. 1894-11-06. Petropavlovsk class. Pre-dreadnought. Imperial Japanese Navy. Ex-Russian Poltava, captured after the Siege of Port Arthur 1905 – sold back to Russia 1916, renamed Chesma.
Ships of the Royal Navy. This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about the Royal Navy.
Missouri (BB-63), famous for being the ship on which the Japanese instrument of surrender was signed, was the last battleship in the world to be decommissioned on 31 March 1992. Seven of these ten ships are still in existence. South Dakota, Washington and Indiana were scrapped, but the remainder are now museum ships.
Pages in category "United States Navy ship names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,356 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Bismarck class was a pair of fast battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine shortly before the outbreak of World War II.The ships were the largest and most powerful warships built for the Kriegsmarine; displacing more than 41,000 metric tons (40,000 long tons) normally, they were armed with a battery of eight 38 cm (15 in) guns and were capable of a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h ...
Ilya Podogin – Soviet SSN, Icebound by Dean Koontz, 1995. USS Independence – fictional Wasp -class amphibious assault ship where a large part of The Swarm by Frank Schätzing takes place, 2004. Indra – schooner, Secret Sea by Robb White, 1947. HMS Iphigenia – frigate, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971.
It represents a subset of the list of museum ships comprising museum ships located worldwide. Deployed to Vietnam 1968–69. Sea Scout Ship with all-female crew 1998–2020. Relocated as 1st maritime training ship on Ohio River Jan 2024. Flooded herself to aim farther during shore bombardment at the Normandy landings.