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Manitowoc was a LST (Landing Ship, Tank) in the United States Navy. Named for a city in Wisconsin, the word is Anishinaabe for “Home of the Great Spirit.”

Calcaterra was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was named in honor of Motor Machinist’s Mate First Class Herbert A. Calcaterra who received the Silver Star posthumously.

Wasa was a Swedish warship completed in 1628. The ship foundered after sailing about 1,300 m into its maiden voyage.

In 1705 the San Felipe participated in a furious 24 hour long battle between 12 Spanish ships and 35 British ships and was finally captured by the British. But it was very badly damaged from the fires caused by the British fire ships. It went down at sea, with rumors of several tons of gold inside it.

During the Third Anglo-Dutch War, Prince served as a flagship of the Lord High Admiral the Duke of York (later James II & VII.) During the Battle of Solebay (1672) she was in the center of the English fleet that was attacked by the Dutch center led by Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.

This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War in 1898.

First English Royal Yacht. Built in 1660.

The master shipwright G.C. Peckelhering built the Grosse Jacht (also called “Golden Yacht”) in Kolberg in 1678-1679. It served as a prototype for the construction of other ships for Prince William III of Orange.

Oliver Cromwell was the largest ship in the Connecticut State Navy from her launch on 13 Jun, 1776, until the British Royal Navy captured her in a battle off the coast of Sandy Hook, New Jersey.

Armed transport famous for mutiny