what are some of the different ships that have been used over the years?

Answer 1

Here are some

A
Aframax
Aircraft carrier
Amphibious Command Ship
Amphibious assault ship
Amphibious transport dock
Anchor handling tug supply vessel
Anti-submarine warfare carrier
Armed merchantmen
Armored cruiser
Arsenal ship
Attack transport
Auxiliary ship
Auxiliary command ship
B
Balloon carrier
Baltimore Clipper
Barque
Bathyscaphe
Battlecarrier
Battlecruiser
Battleship
Bermuda sloop
Bilander
Blackwall Frigate
Blockship
Bomb vessel
Breastwork monitor
Brig
Brigantine
Broadside ironclad
Bulk carrier
C
CAM ship
Cable layer
Caicque
Capesize
Capital ship
Car float
Caravel
Cargo ship
Carrack
Casco class
Casemate ironclad
Catamaran
Centre-battery ship
Chemical tanker
Clipper
Clyde puffer
Clyde steamer
Coastal defence ship
Cog (ship)
Combat stores ship
Combatant ship
Command ship
Commercial vessel
Concrete ship
Container ship
Convoy rescue ship
Corvette
Crane vessel
Cromster
Cruise ship
Cruiseferry
Cruiser
Cutter (ship)
D
Destroyer
Destroyer escort
D cont.
Destroyer minesweeper
Destroyer tender
Deutschland class cruiser
Disposable ship
Diving support vessel
Dock landing ship
Double-hulled tanker
Drifter (fishing boat)
Drill ship
Drillship
Dromon
Durham Boat
E
E-boat
East Indiaman
Elli class frigate
Escort aircraft carrier
F
Fast Attack Craft
Fast battleship
Fast combat support ship
Feeder ship
Ferry
Fifth-rate
Fire ship
Fireboat
First-rate
Fishing Vessel
Fishing vessel
Flagship
Flettner ship
Fleut
Floating Production Storage and Offloading
Floating pleasure palace
Flotilla leader
Fluyt
Fourth-rate
Freight liner (ship)
Frigate
Fusta
G
Gabbert
Galiot
Galleasses
Galleon
Galley
Ghost ship
Great ship
Guard ship
Guided missile destroyer
Gunboat
H
Handymax
Heavy cruiser
Hermaphrodite brig
USCG High Endurance Cutter
High speed transport
History of research ships
Hjortspring boat
Hog Islander
Hospital ship
Hoy (boat)
Hulk (ship)
Hydrofoil
I
Icebreaker
Ironclad warship
J
Junk (ship)
K
Ketch
Knaar
Knarr
K cont.
Koch (boat)
Kortenaer class frigate
L
LCVP
LNG carrier
Landing Ship, Tank
USS LST 494
LSTH
Lake freighter
Landing Craft Assault
Landing Craft Mechanized
Landing Platform, Helicopter
Landing Ship Logistics
Landing craft
Landship
Lead ship
Lembus
Liberty ship
Liburnians
Light cruiser
Lighthouse tender
Lightvessel
List of world's largest wooden ships
Littoral combat ship
Longship
M
MEKO
Malaccamax
Man of war
Manhattan (ship)
Manila galleon
Merchant aircraft carrier
Merchant raider
Milgem
Minelayer
Minesweeper (ship)
Missile boat
Monitor (warship)
Mother ship
Motor ship
Museum ship
N
Naval Combatant
Naval architecture
Naval ship
Nuclear powered icebreaker
O
OBO carrier
OPV (naval)
Ocean escort
Ocean liner
Oiler (ship)
Open Ocean Performance Sixties
P
PNS Behr Paima
Packet ship
Paddle steamer
Panamax
Passenger ship
Patrol boat
Pentamaran
Pilot boat
Pink (ship)
Platform supply vessel
Pram (ship)
Pre-dreadnought
Pre-industrial armoured ships
Protected cruiser
Q
Q-ship
Quinquereme
R
Ram (ship)
Ramped Craft Logistic
Ramped Powered Lighter
Razee
Receiving ship
Reefer (ship)
Replenishment oiler
Ship replica
Research vessel
River gunboat
River monitor
Rocket vessel
Roll-on/roll-off
Royal Mail Ship
S
School ship
Schooner
Screw frigate
Screw sloop
Seaplane tender
Seawaymax
Second-rate
Semi submarine
Semi-submersible
Seventy-four (ship)
Sewn boat
Ship of the line
Showboat
Shuttle tanker
S cont.
Sixth-rate
Slamming
Slave ship
Sloop-of-war
Smack (ship)
Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull
Solar barge
Spy ship
Starship
Steam brig
Steamboat
Stone frigate
Straight decker
Strike cruiser
Submarine
Submarine tender
Submersible
Suezmax
Supercarrier
Superliner (passenger ship)
Surface effect ship
Surface ship
Survey ship
T
T2 tanker
Tall ship
Tanker (ship)
Target ship
Technical research ship
Third-rate
T cont.
Three-decker
Torpedo boat
Torpedo gunboat
Torpedo ram
Train ferry
Tramp steamer
Trawler
Treenailed boat
Trimaran
Trireme
Troopship
Tugboat
Turret Deck Ship
Turret ship
Twin screw steamer
Two-decker
Type C1 ship
Type C2 ship
Type C3 ship
U
United States Coast Guard Cutter
V
Victory ship
W
Warship
Weather ship
Whaler
Windjammer
Wyoming (Schooner)
X
Xebec
Y
Yawl

Answer 2

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