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La Nina (Spanish for The Girl) was one of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage towards the Indies in 1492. The real name of the Nina was Santa Clara. The name Nina was probably a pun on the name of her owner, Juan Ni...

K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy, lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000. Kursk, which translated, means the nuclear powered submarine "Kursk&quo...

Spanish and Portuguese Conquistadores set out to conquer the New World aboard such ships. These vessels could carry up to 900 tons of cargo having up to 1600 tons displacement or alternatively 600-700 fully armed men. For their time these saili...

The word brigantine comes from brigand which means a pirate or a rabber, and in the XVI century it was the name for light pirate ships. Later when piracy stread to the calmless Atlantic ocean the type of the vessel changed but the name was kept...

The Pourquoi Pas ? IV was the fourth ship built for Jean-Baptiste Charcot. She completed the second Charcot expedition of the Antarctic regions from 1908 to 1910. Charcot died aboard when she was wrecked on 16 September 1936. Of the forty men o...

The Sirius was a side-wheel wooden-hulled steamship built in 1837 for the London-Cork route operated by the St George Steam Packet Company. The next year, she opened transatlantic steam passenger service when she was chartered for two voyages b...

Varyag (also spelled Variag; see Varangian for the meaning of the name) was a Russian protected cruiser. Varyag became famous for its crew stoicism at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay.
The Imperial Admiralty contracted William Cramp and Sons ...

The naval Battle of Sluys fought in 1340 gave the English the naval supremacy they maintained throughout the 100 Years War. On 24 June 1340 King Edward III on board his flagship, the 250ton cog "Thomas" together with his 250 strong fl...