Subject Type: Vessel

First English Royal Yacht. Built in 1660.

About the Vessel This is a model of a bomb vessel. Note the mortar located on the centerline forward of the mainmast. […]

The ironclad Hoche was an early ironclad battleship of the French Navy.

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

Using a spar torpedo mounted on Picket Boat No.1, Lt. William Cushing and his crew succeeded in sinking CSS Albemarle at Plymouth, North Carolina, on the night of 27 October 1864.

HMS Victory is best known for her role as Lord Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar

This is the yacht that won the race which came to be known as the “America’s Cup”

Kearsarge is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.