Ships Flashcards
The Beagle
Charles Darwin's Ship
The Pelican, renamed The Golden Hind
Sir Francis Drake's Ship (circumnavigated the world)
Mayflower
Pilgrims left Plymouth and arrived at Cape Cod
Half Moon (& Hopewell & Discovery)
Henry Hudson
The Bounty (The Mutiny on the Bounty)
Captain William Bligh
The Bonhomme Richard...named after Ben Franklin (& the Alfred & the Ranger)
John Paul Jones ("I have not yet begun to fight")
The Niña, the Pinta, the Santa Maria (flagship)
Christopher Columbus
NASA honored him by naming the Endeavour & Discovery shuttles after his ships
Captain James Cook (English)
Queen Anne's Revenge
Blackbeard
the Endurance (trapped in ice for 10 months before being crushed)
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Kon-Tiki (made of balsa)
Thor Heyerdahl
Calypso (John Denver sang about it)
Jacques Cousteau
Pequod
fictional Moby Dick boat (Captain Ahab)
Nautilus
Captain Nemo's Fictional submarine (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)
The Caine (The Caine Mutiny)
Captain Queeg (fictional)
Jolly Roger
Captain Hook's fictional ship
Carpathia
Ship that came to Titanic's rescue
Old Ironsides a.k.a USS Consitution
fought against Barbary pirates & in the War of 1812
Potemkin
Russian ship where crew mutinied
Mary Rose
Henry VIII's fave ship
The Bismarck
Sunken German battleship found in 1989
the Amistad
Ship of 1839 slave mutiny against Spaniards
the Maine
1898 explosion due to ammunition, sunk in Havana harbour
The Merrimack (Confederates) & the Monitor (Union)
Civil War ships that fought
the Oklahoma & the Arizona
2 ships returned to service at Pearl Harbour
Nautilus
First nuclear-powered submarine
Enterprise
First nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
the Sirius
First steamship to cross Atlantic with steam power alone