Booya was a steel-hulled three-masted schooner with an auxiliary oil engine built in the Netherlands in 1917 and originally named De Lauwers. The schooner...
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game Booyah (company), a social web and mobile entertainment company Booya (ship), a three–masted schooner which sank during Cyclone Tracy in 1974 Booyah...
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HMAS Arrow (P 88) (category Ships built in Queensland)
died.[citation needed] Booya (ship) Gillett, Australian and New Zealand Ships since 1946, p. 86 Blackman (ed.), Jane's Fighting Ships, 1968–69, p. 18 The...
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shipwrecks in Australian waters List of 17th-century shipwrecks in Australia Ship graveyard#Australia "The Sydney Morning Herald 11 November 1850". Sydney...
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HMHS Britannic (redirect from His Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic)
White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic...
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AHS Centaur (redirect from Hospital Ship Centaur)
Australian Hospital Ship (AHS) Centaur was a hospital ship which was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, Australia,...
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Koni-class frigate (category Ship classes of the Volksmarine)
30 mm (1.2 in) anti-aircraft guns, 4 P-15M Termit anti-ship missile launchers were fitted in some ships, depth charge and naval mine racks were fitted at the...
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RMS Caronia (1947) (category 1947 ships)
RMS Caronia was a 34,183 gross register tons (GRT) passenger ship of the Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line). Launched on 30 October 1947, she served...
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MV Eurabia Sun (category 1971 ships)
MV Eurabia Sun, originally named MV Theron, was a 1961 Dutch-built cargo ship of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij. In 1974 it was sold...
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the vessel) (PROY-sin) was a German steel-hulled, five-masted, ship-rigged sailing ship built in 1902 for the F. Laeisz shipping company and named after...
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Rouse Simmons (redirect from Christmas Tree Ship)
famous for having sunk in a violent storm on Lake Michigan in 1912. The ship was bound for Chicago with a cargo of Christmas trees when it foundered off...
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USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
General Harry Taylor (AP-145)) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship in the United States Navy in World War II named in honor of U.S. Army Chief...
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HMS Pandora (1779) (category Porcupine-class post ships)
HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. The vessel is best known for its role in hunting...
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Zuytdorp (category Merchant ships of the Netherlands)
in the Netherlands, near the Belgian border) was an 18th-century trading ship of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, commonly...
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SS Carnatic (category 1862 ships)
the ship to be safe and the pumps intact, Captain P. B. Jones denied passengers' repeated requests to abandon ship, and reassured them that the ship was...
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FV Gaul (redirect from Gaul (ship))
The fishing vessel Gaul was a deep sea factory ship based at Hull, United Kingdom. She was launched in December 1971 by Brooke Marine of Lowestoft, entering...
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SS Comet (1857) (category Merchant ships of the United States)
underwater museum. The 181-foot (55 m), 744-ton wooden propeller ship Comet, along with her sister ship, the Rocket, was launched in 1857 by Peak and Masters of...
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launched in 1855. She was a new type of ship, a 2,719-ton iron-hulled steam clipper, built in the same way as a clipper ship but with auxiliary coal-fired steam...
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MS Mikhail Lermontov (redirect from Mikhail Lermontov (ship))
Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. It was later converted into a cruise ship. On 16 February 1986 it collided with rocks near Port Gore in the Marlborough...
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SMS Emden (category Ships built in Danzig)
SMS Emden ("His Majesty's Ship Emden") was the second and final member of the Dresden class of light cruisers built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial...
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SS Andrea Doria (category 1951 ships)
Andrea Doria, the ship had a gross register tonnage of 29,100 and a capacity of about 1,200 passengers and 500 crew. Of all Italy's ships at the time, Andrea...
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HMS Prince of Wales (53) (category 1939 ships)
became the first capital ships to be sunk solely by air power on the open sea, a harbinger of the diminishing role this class of ships was subsequently to...
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Rainbow Warrior (1955) (category 1955 ships)
Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace ship involved in campaigns against whaling, seal hunting, nuclear testing and nuclear waste dumping during the late 1970s...
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USS Oriskany (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
The ship was named for the Battle of Oriskany during the Revolutionary War. The history of Oriskany differs considerably from that of her sister ships. Originally...
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MV Salem Express (category 1964 ships)
6394500°N 34.061083°E / 26.6394500; 34.061083 The Salem Express was a passenger ship that sank in the Red Sea. It is notable due to the heavy loss of life which...
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Texas Clipper (redirect from Excambion (ship))
USTS Texas Clipper, a 473 foot long ship, served as a merchant marine training vessel with the Texas Maritime Academy at Texas A&M University at Galveston...
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HMS Hermes (95) (category 1919 ships)
world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the Imperial Japanese Navy's Hōshō was the first to be commissioned. The ship's construction...
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Tubbataha Reef (section Ship grounding incidents)
were eleven incidents involving ships, including two Philippine ships. The U.S. Navy concluded that towing the ship off the reef would cause more damage...
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USAT Liberty (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
Army cargo ship torpedoed by I-66 in January 1942 and beached on the island of Bali, Indonesia. She had been built as a Design 1037 ship for the United...
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MV Bianca C. (redirect from Bianca C. (ship))
MV Bianca C. was a passenger ship that sank on two occasions, the first time in France before being completed, and the second time after an explosion and...
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