Subject Type: Vessel

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.

This American brig was commanded by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, whose fleet defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie, 1813.

A typical Maine lobster boat.

USS Gearing was the lead ship of a United States Navy destroyer class. She was named for three generations of the Gearing family, Commander Henry Chalfant Gearing, Sr., Captain Henry Chalfant Gearing, Jr. and Lieutenant Henry Chalfant Gearing, III.

Famed American frigate that became known as “Old Ironsides” during the War of 1812.

Schooner built in 1903. In 1905, became trans-Atlantic record holder and held the title for 92 years.

USS Tortuga is a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship of the US Navy. the second to be named for the Dry Tortugas.

The 74-gun ship, which was built in varying configurations, comprised the backbone of the British Navy throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

Royal Caroline, built for King George II in 1749 and named after his deceased wife, was the first British ship built specifically as a royal yacht.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912.