Ship

Ship (from Old English: scip) (Chinese: 船, Dutch: schip, French: navire, German: das Schiff, Greek: πλοίο, Japanese: 船, Russian: корабль, судно, Spanish: barco, navío). Ships are large watercraft capable of offshore navigation; a vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.[1]

Ships can be measured in terms of overall length, length of the waterline, beam (breadth), depth (distance between the crown of the weather deck and the top of the keelson), draft (distance between the highest waterline and the bottom of the ship) and tonnage.

As well as being the generic word, "ship" also has a specific meaning: a vessel with bowsprit and three masts, each with topmast and topgallant mast and all square rigged. (See Full-rigged ship.)

## Contents

* 1 Famous ships
* 2 Some terms about ships
* 3 There are no atheists on a sinking ship
* 4 See also
* 5 External links
* 6 References

## Famous ships[edit]

Civilian ships  |  War ships

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* The Amistad
* Agerholm
* SS Arizona
* SS Andrea Doria
* RMS Britannic
* Calypso
* RMS Carpathia
* M/Y Christina
* Cutty Sark
* El Horria
* Exxon Valdez
* The Falcon
* The Flying Cloud
* The Ipiranga
* RMS Lusitania
* RMS Mauretania
* Mayflower
* Nimrod
* SS Normandie
* SMS Novara
* The Niña
* RMS Olympic
* The Pelican
* The Pinta
* RMS Queen Elizabeth
* RMS Queen Elizabeth 2
* RMS Queen Mary
* RMS Queen Mary 2
* MS Queen Victoria
* HMS Resolution
* Santa Maria
* SS Savannah
* OOCL Shenzhen
* Sutton Hoo
* Thermopylae
* The Tory
* RMS Titanic

* "City"-class gunboat
* German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee
* USS Arizona
* USS Chesapeake
* USS West Point
* HMS Beagle
* HMS Belfast
* HMS Bellerophon (1786)
* German battleship Bismarck
* HMHS Britannic
* HMS Bounty
* USS Constitution
* HMS Dorsetshire
* HMB Endeavour
* USS Enterprise
* ARA General Belgrano
* FS Gloire
* HMS George V
* HMS Hood
* CSS H.L. Hunley Submarine - American Civil War.
* USS Liberty
* Japanese battleship Mikasa
* USS Maine
* Mary Rose
* USS Missouri
* USS Nautilus
* USS Nimitz
* RMS Olympic
* The Potemkin
* HMS Prince of Wales
* HMS Rodney
* USS South Carolina
* USS Sultana
* HMS Sovereign of the Seas
* Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad
* USS Taney
* HMS Temeraire
* German battleship Tirpitz
* Regalskeppet Vasa
* HMS Victory
* CSS Virginia
* Japanese battleship Yamato

## Some terms about ships[edit]

* SHIPFITTER

A mechanic who makes templates, marks, assembles, and fastens in place plates and shapes for the hull of a ship. Should be able to do any fitting on ship.

* SHIP'S LOG

A book with a record of every occurrence and incident concerning the ship.

* SHIPWRIGHT

A ship builder, or one who works about a ship. Does wood carpentry on the ship and keeps ships faired. Builds launching ways and launches ship.[2]

## There are no atheists on a sinking ship[edit]

See also: There are no atheists on a sinking ship

A close variant of the phrase "There are no atheists in foxholes" is the phrase, "There are no atheists on a sinking ship".[3]

A close variant of the phrase "There are no atheists in foxholes" is the phrase, "There are no atheists on a sinking ship".[4]

For more information about the phrase "There are no atheists on a sinking ship", please see:

* There are no atheists on a sinking ship

## See also[edit]

* Agamenticus
* Aggressor (ship)
* Agwidale
* Ahoskie
* Caravel
* Ship naming conventions
* Ship's Bells
* Robert Fulton
* Viking
* Warship
* Ahdeek
* Supply chain and Just in Time distribution system
* Food distribution system: Transportation (trucks, ships, railroad, and airplanes), warehousing (such as Amazon.com, Costco), and retail facilities (such as Wal-Mart) which move food from the food production system to consumers.
* Systems of support

## External links[edit]

* Ship - Technology
* Glossary of Nautical and Shipbuilding Terms
* Ship Photo Galleries
* 20th Century Ships
* U-Boote Photos S. Mata (In Spanish)

## References[edit]

1. ↑ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
2. ↑ Glossary
3. ↑ There are no atheists on a sinking ship
4. ↑ There are no atheists on a sinking ship