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Watch as a cruise ship is readied for a journey.
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Overview of the container ship Estelle Maersk.
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Passenger ship in a shipyard at Papenburg, Germany.
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(Top) Transverse section of a ship floating at heel angle θ with load w...
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A passenger cruise ship travels through the Panama Canal.
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Shipping containers being unloaded at port facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia,...
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Freighters on the lower Saint Clair River, south of Lake Huron, on the Canadian-U.S....
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Jar with boat designs, painted pottery from Egypt, c. 3450–3350 bce;...
Photograph by Katie Chao. Brooklyn Museum, New York, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 09.889.400
An ancient Egyptian papyrus showing a boat on the Nile River.
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Drawing of an Egyptian seagoing ship, c. 2600 bce,...
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Model of a Phoenician ship, 13th century bce;...
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Galley of the largest size, with five men on each oar, early 17th century.
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Square sails, shown with studding sails and rigging, as seen from astern.
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Illustration depicting Christopher Columbus's fleet departing from Spain in 1492.
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The Mayflower in full sail, painting by Paul Strayer based on models in...
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Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's fleet of five ships after their departure...
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The Sampson, the Salvadore, and the St. George, three...
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The English merchant ship John Wood approaching Bombay (Mumbai), India;...
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Steamboat taking on wood on the banks of the Mississippi River, 1829.
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Illustration of an early version of John Fitch's steamboat.
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The American paddleship Savannah, which in 1819 became the first ship to...
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The Great Britain (1843), the first steamship with an iron hull.
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In the first battle of ironclad warships, the Confederate Virginia (the rechristened...
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Brooklyn City, oil on canvas by Antonio Nicolo Jacobsen, 1886; in the Brooklyn...
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The Great Eastern, iron steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel; lithograph...
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The Cunard ocean liner Lusitania, launched in 1906 and sunk by a torpedo...
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The Cunard ocean liner Mauretania, launched in 1906 and in service until...
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On April 10, 1912, the Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage. It sank days...
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Lounge on the ocean liner SS Leviathan. The Leviathan was launched...
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The first-class dining room on the U.S. Line's Leviathan. Originally the Imperator,...
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The first-class lounge, with stained-glass ceiling, on the Cunard liner Berengaria....
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The Palm Court and ballroom on the Cunard liner Berengaria. The Berengaria...
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English Tudor smoking room on the Cunard liner Berengaria. The Berengaria...
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The Normandie, often called the greatest ocean liner ever built. It was...
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RMS Queen Mary. It was launched in 1934 and served as a transatlantic liner,...
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RMS Queen Elizabeth, ocean liner of the Cunard–White Star line. It was launched...
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Officers on a passenger ship using charts for navigation.
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Ship under construction.
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