Historical Ships |
The Mayflower
1620
The Pilgrims' progress was forwarded by this hearty English vessel
The Bounty
1789
The living legacy of Fletcher Christian's descendants
The Amistad
1839
The Spanish schooner and its slaves who fueled proslavery
The Queen Mary
1936
The only surviving major pre-war transatlantic ocean liner in existence
The Queen Elizabeth
1938
Cunard's vision of ocean liner luxury in the 1940s
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Ships of War |
The Monitor and Merrimack
1862
Two American warships that marked a revolution in naval warfare
The Maine
1898
The battleship that helped to precipitate the Spanish-American War
The Britannic
1914
The supposedly "safer" sister ship of the Titanic
The Bismarck
1939
A fearsome Nazi ship with a short career on the seas
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Shipwrecks |
The Sultana
1865
America's worst maritime disaster
The Titanic
1912
The sinking of the legendary ship in history and celluloid
The Endurance
1914
Shackleton's expedition trapped by an iceberg in the South Atlantic
The Lusitania
1915
Sunk by German forces, this fated liner contributed to anti-German WWI sentiment
The Andrea Doria
1956
A floating museum hits hard times off Nantucket
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