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Name Ships in class Type Length Displacement Status Operator USS Enterprise 1: Aircraft carrier: 342 m (1,122 ft) 94,781: 1 decommissioned United States Navy Gerald R. Ford class
The world's longest ships are listed according to their overall length (LOA), which is the maximum length of the vessel measured between the extreme points in fore and aft. In addition, the ships' deadweight tonnage (DWT) and/or gross tonnage (GT) are presented as they are often used to describe the size of a vessel.
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
RMS Queen Elizabeth's size record stood for the longest time at over 54 years. This is a timeline of the world's largest passenger ships based upon internal volume, initially measured by gross register tonnage and later by gross tonnage. This timeline reflects the largest extant passenger ship in the world at any given time.
List of clipper ships; List of early warships of the English navy; List of sail frigates of France; List of large sailing vessels; List of large sailing yachts; List of schooners; List of sailing frigates of the United States Navy; List of sloops of war of the United States Navy; List of ships of the line of the United States Navy
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.
The acquisition of modern, European-built warships by Argentina, Brazil, and Chile had alarmed the United States. The straw that broke the camel's back was Brazil's commissioning of the battleship Riachuelo , which suddenly made the Brazilian Navy the strongest in the Americas.
Name Class Type Length Beam Draft Gross tonnage Status Main builder Operator ref Pioneering Spirit - Crane vessel: 382 m (1,253 ft) 124 m (407 ft)