Flashcards: Ships of the United States

SS Savannah was an American hybrid sailing ship/sidewheel steamer built in 1818.

SS John Grafton was a steamship that was used in an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle large quantities of arms for the Finnish resistance to the Imperial Russian regime in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War.

Carroll A. Deering was a five-masted commercial schooner that was found run aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in 1921.

GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was a deep-sea drillship platform initially built for the United States Central Intelligence Agency Special Activities Division secret operation Project Azorian to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129, lost during April 1968.

SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, was a 280-foot (85 m) sidewheel steamer that operated between Central America and the eastern coast of the United States during the 1850s.

F/V Andrea Gail was a commercial fishing vessel that was lost at sea with all hands during the "Perfect Storm" of 1991.

Sultana was a Mississippi River side-wheel steamboat.

The Arabia is a side wheeler steamboat which hit a snag and sank in the Missouri River near what today is Kansas City, Kansas, on September 5, 1856.

SS United States is a luxury passenger liner built in 1952 for United States Lines.

Lone Star is a wooden hull, steam-powered stern-wheeled towboat in LeClaire, Iowa, United States.

Q4000 is a unique multi-purpose oil field construction and intervention vessel commissioned in 1999 by Cal Dive International, and was built at the Keppel AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas.

SS Leviathan, originally built as the Vaterland, was an ocean liner which regularly crossed the North Atlantic from 1914 to 1934.

SS Daram was an American Cargo ship that ran aground on Long Bar Reef, Bermuda while she was travelling from Pensacola, Florida, United States to Marseille, France.

The Discovery is a fireboat launched on the Columbia River in 2014.

The Rover was a steam-powered yacht built in 1930 by Alexander Stephen and Sons in Glasgow, Scotland for Lord Inchcape, then chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).