Ajax was a wooden, propeller-driven steamship built in 1864. She provided logistical support to the Union Army on the Atlantic coast during the American...
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Several ships have been named Ajax for Ajax the Great, a figure from Greek mythology: Ajax (1759 EIC ship), of 655 tons (bm), was built by Perry, Blackwall...
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Completed after the end of the war, Ajax was laid up until 1871, although she received her new name in 1869. The ship was briefly activated in 1871, before...
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Four ships of the United States Navy have been named Ajax, after Ajax, a Greek hero during the Trojan War. USS Ajax (1869), launched in 1864 as USS Manayunk...
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Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ajax after the Greek hero Ajax: HMS Ajax (1767) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in...
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HMS Ajax was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1809 at Blackwall Yard. On 11 September 1810, in a ship action off...
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HMS Royal George (1827) (category United Kingdom ship of the line stubs)
Robinson. It was announced in 1864 that she would replace the Ajax as the Coast-guard ship at Devonport. On 27 October 1867, Royal George was driven ashore...
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Ajax-class central citadel turret-ships Agamemnon (1879) – broken up 1903 Ajax (1880) – sold for breaking 1904 Royal Sovereign (1862) – turret-ship,...
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List of ironclads of the Royal Navy (category Lists of Royal Navy ships by type)
for BU 1903 Ajax-class central citadel turret-ships Agamemnon (1879) - BU 1903 Ajax (1880) - Sold for BU 1904 Colossus-class turret-ships Colossus (1882)...
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The list of ship launches in 1864 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1864. "Ships Built in the 1860s". Searle. Retrieved 19 January...
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USS Manayunk (category United States Navy ship names)
USS Manayunk (1864), was renamed Ajax 15 June 1869 USS Manayunk (AN-81), was launched 30 March 1945 This article includes a list of ships with the same...
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Fulani prince who was captured and shipped on the Africa to America where he was sold into slavery to Thomas Foster. Ajax Brig mentioned in Bernard Raux slave...
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Ajax is a floating crane built to move and install the canal locks and other large parts of the Panama Canal. Ajax also helped in ship repairs and clearing...
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C. & R. Poillon (category Boat and ship designers)
for the United States Navy.: p3 The company built the steamship Ajax (1864 ship) in 1864 to provide logistical support to the Union Army on the Atlantic...
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USS Tuscarora (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
While there, she was under observation from HMS Shannon (1855) and HMS Ajax (1809). She left shortly and returned to Spanish waters in September. She...
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home with him safely. Locrian Ajax, who had endured more than the others the wrath of the Gods, never returned home. His ship was wrecked by a storm sent...
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War. The four were the Blenheim, Ajax, La Hogue and Edinburgh. About ten years later, a further batch of five ships was similarly converted - this included...
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Navy ships contains all ships of the United States Navy with names beginning with A and B. For a list exclusively of currently commissioned ships, see...
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Canonicus-class monitor (section Ships in class)
improved Passaics, modified in accordance with war experience. The four ships not commissioned during the war were built on the Ohio River, three at Cincinnati...
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This is a list of French ships of the line of the period 1621–1870 (plus some from the period before 1621). Battlefleet units in the French Navy (Marine...
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USRC Harriet Lane (redirect from Harriet Lane (ship))
Revenue Cutter Service and, on the outbreak of the American Civil War, a ship of the United States Navy and later Confederate States Navy. The craft was...
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H. L. Hunley (submarine) (category Maritime incidents in February 1864)
against an enemy target on the night of 17 February 1864. The target was United States Navy ship, USS Housatonic, a 1,240-long-ton (1,260 t) wooden-hulled...
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they can be considered as reduced versions of battleships, coastal defence ships (sometimes also referred to as coastal defence battleships) are included...
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damage and a collision with another ship. The monitor's parts were salvaged and she was launched on 14 November 1864. Camanche was commissioned in May 1865...
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Helen of Troy (redirect from The face that launched a thousand ships)
helena), he chose the specific name helena in reference to Helen of Troy. In 1864, Paris saw the premiere of the operetta La belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach...
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SS Carnatic (category 1862 ships)
a number of compound-engined ships built in the first half of the 1860s: Poonah (1863), Golconda (1863) and Baronda (1864).: 170 In 1869, she ran aground...
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HMS Orpheus (1860) (category Ships built in Chatham)
coast of Auckland, New Zealand on 7 February 1863: 189 crew out of the ship's complement of 259 died in the disaster, making it the worst maritime tragedy...
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Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions (section General Vatutin cargo ship explosion in Magadan, Russia)
struck the ship, igniting 350 tonnes of TNT; a barge nearby carried an additional 100 tonnes which also detonated. Royal Navy warships HMS Ajax and HMS Calcutta...
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USS Atlanta (1861) (category Ships built on the River Clyde)
gunboat Cimarron, the only ships within signaling distance. The ship retained her name and was commissioned again on 2 February 1864, rearmed with a pair of...
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USS Wyoming (1859) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
States naval victory over Japan in the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits. The ship was laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in July 1858, launched on 19...
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