Ships Flashcards

(46 cards)

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Charles Darwin

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Beagle

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Sir Francis Drake

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The Golden Hinde

was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580.

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Pilgrims

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Mayflower

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Henry Hudson (Crew Mutinied)

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Half Moon

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5
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Captain Bligh

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The Bounty

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6
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Admiral Horatio Nelson

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Victory

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John Paul Jones

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Bonhomme Richard

first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. Although he made enemies among America’s political elites, his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the “Father of the United States Navy

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Christopher Columbus (Flagship)

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Santa Maria

Nina
Pinta

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9
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Captain Cook

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Discovery

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10
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Captain Ahab

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Pequod

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11
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Captain Nemo Sub

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Nautilus

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Roald Amundsen

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Fram

He led the Antarctic expedition (1910–12) that was the first to reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911. I

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13
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Thor Heyerdahl’s Raft

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Kon-Tiki

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Robert Fulton

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Clermont

was a colonial American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. In 1800, he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design the “Nautilus”, which was the first practical submarine in history

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Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Calypso (Sung about by John Denver)

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16
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Mayflower’s Sister Ship

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Speedwell

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17
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Monitor’s Ironclad Adversary

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Merrimack (CSA side)

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18
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Merrimack’s Southern Name

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Virginia

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USS Constitution

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Old Ironsides

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“Small Vessal” Sailing Ship

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Fastest Sailing Ship

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Clipper Ship that Set New York to San Francisco Record, 1851

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One-Masted Ship

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Ship with one mast and a single jib

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Four-masted Ship
Barquentine
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Ships that Sailed to Jamestown, 1607
Susan Constant, Discovery, Godspeed
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"Spectral Ship" Destined to Sail the Seas Forever
Flying Dutchman
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Ship of the 1839 Slave Mutiny
Amistad
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Ship that Sank of April 14, 1912
Titanic
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Ship that Caem to the Titanic's Rescue
Carpathia
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Ship that Sank of May 7, 1915
Lusitania
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Ship that sank in 1956 Collison with Stockholm
Andrea Doria
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Ghost Ship Found Abandoned in 1872
Marie Celeste
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Ship Sunk in Havana Harbor, 1898
Maine
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Titanic's Sister Ships
Brittanic, Olympic
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Lusitania's Sister Ship
Mauritania
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Russian Ship Where Crew Mutinied
Potempkin
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Gilligan's Lost Tour Boat
USS Minnow
39
TV Love Boat
Pacific Princess
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Cruise Ship that Capsized off the coast of Italy, 2012
Costa Concordia
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Royal Liner in Service for Cunard
Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)
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Alaskan Oil Spill Ship 1989
Exxon Valdez
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Ill-Fated German Battleship
Bismark
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First Nuclear-Powered Sub
Nautilus
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Frieghter that sank in Lake Superior, 1975
Edmond Fitzgerald
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Greenpeace Research Vessel, Sank in 1985
Rainbow Warrior (by the French!)