The original schooner America was the winner of the royal yacht squadron's race round the Isle of Wight for a cup of one hundred sovereigns in August 1851. Watching America sail in first place past the Royal Yacht, Queen Victoria famously asked? "Who came in second?" "Your Majesty, there is no ...

Bluenose was a Canadian schooner from Nava Scotia, a celebrated racing ship and a symbol of the province. The name "bluenose" originated as a nick-name for Nova Scotians.

Designed by William Roue and built by Smith and Rhuland, Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March 2, 1921, as...

Charles W. Morgan was a U.S. whaling ship during the 1800s. Ships of this type usually harvested the blubber of whales for whale oil, which was commonly used in lamps during t...

Chris-Craft Industries is a privately held American manufacturer of civilian powerboats based in Sarasota, Florida. The company was founded in the late 19th century by Christopher Columbus Smith and became famous for its mahogany hulled powerboats of the 1920s through the 1950s.

Smith built his first...

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     Length:         29”

     Height:          28”

The Concordia Yawl was designed by Ray Hunt, and was one of the most successful and long-lived stock racer/cruisers ever built. The hulls were constructed of mahogany, with oak frames and teak upper decks.

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     Length:         24.5”

     Height:         35.5”

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     Length:         28”

     Height:         24.75”

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     Length:         24.75”

     Height:          35.5”

The Flying Cloud of 1851 was the most famous of the extreme clippers built by Donald McKay in East Boston, Massachusetts, intended for Enoch Train of Boston, who paid $50,000 for her construction.

The Flying Cloud was purchased at launching by Grinnell, Minturn & Co., of New York, for $90,000, wh...

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     Length:         21.25”

     Height:          31”

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     Length:         32”

     Height:          26.5”

United States Ship PT-109 was a PT boat last commanded by Lieutenant (Junior Grade) (LTJG) John F. Kennedy (later President of the United States) in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Kennedy's actions to save his surviving crew after the sinking of the PT-109 made him a "war hero", which prov...

Motor Torpedo Boat PT-41 was a PT-20 (Elco 77-Foot) Class Patrol torpedo bo...

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     Length:         36.5”

     Height:          24”

The J-class yacht Ranger won the 1937 America's Cup, defeating 4-0 the Endeavour II of Britain, race...

The Riva Aquarama is a luxury wooden speedboat built from 1962 to 1996 by the Italian company 'Riva'...

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     Length:         23”

     Height:          35.75”

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     Length:         24”

     Height:          25.5”

The RMS Titanic, a British Olympic-class ocean liner, became famous as the largest ocean liner built in her day and also for sinking on her maiden voyage in 1912 with a tremendous loss of life.

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     Length:         47.25”

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USS Constitution, known as "Old Ironsides," is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named after the United States Constitution, she is the oldest commissioned ship afloat in the world. The Constitution was one of the six original frigates authorized for construction...

The USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. Like her predecessor of World War II fame, she is nicknamed the “Big E”. At 1,123 feet (342.3 m), she is the longest naval vessel in the world, th...

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     Length:         38.75”

     Height:          12”

Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Missouri in honor of the 24th state.

• USS Missouri, 1841, a sidewheel frigate, was launched in 1841. She made the first powered crossing of the Atlantic by a steam warship and was lost to fire at Gibraltar in August 1843.

• The second Missour...

At least two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name New Jersey, after the third U.S. state.

   * The first New Jersey (BB-16) was a battleship commissioned in 1906,   decommissioned in 1920, and sunk in 1923 in bombing tests. 

   * The second New Jersey ...

USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a supercarrier in the United States Navy, the lead ship of its class. It is one of the largest warships in the world. It was laid down, launched and commissioned as CVAN-68, but was redesignated CVN-68 (nuclear-powered multimission aircraft carrier) on June 30, 1975 as part of...

The J-class yacht Velsheda was designed by Charles Nicholson and built in 1933 by Camper and Nicholsons at Gosport, Hampshire. She was built for businessman Mr W.L. Stevenson and named after his three daughters, Velma, Sheila and Daphne. Between 1933 and 1936, she won many races and competed with ot...