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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.
The 1863 Star of India is the fourth oldest ship afloat in the United States, after the 1797 USS Constitution, 1841 Charles W. Morgan, and the 1854 USS Constellation, and is the oldest ship in the world that still sails regularly. Unlike many preserved or restored vessels, her hull, cabins and equipment are nearly 100% original.
Trincomalee is one of two surviving British frigates of her era—her near-sister HMS Unicorn (of the modified Leda class) is now a museum ship in Dundee.After being ordered on 30 October 1812, Trincomalee was built in Bombay, India, by the Wadia family [1] of shipwrights in teak, due to oak shortages in Britain as a result of shipbuilding drives for the Napoleonic Wars.
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line.With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission.She was ordered for the Royal Navy in 1758, during the Seven Years' War and laid down in 1759.
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. [11] [Note 1] She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed.
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Unicorn's sister ship, HMS Trincomalee, has also been preserved and is the centrepiece of the National Museum of the Royal Navy based in Hartlepool. [6] Trincomalee and Unicorn are the second- and third-oldest ships still afloat, the oldest being the USS Constitution of 1797.
Edwin Fox is one of the world's oldest surviving merchant sailing ships. [Note 1] The Edwin Fox is also the only surviving ship that transported convicts to Australia.She is unique in that she is the "only intact hull of a wooden deep water sailing ship built to British specifications surviving in the world outside the Falkland Islands". [2]