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Commercial fishing vessel featured in the discovery channel show Deadliest Catch - Launched 1977 - Extended to 118' in 1987 and 125' in 1991 in order to remain commercially viable

First nuclear powered surface ship - Launched 1957 - Had her first nuclear accident in February 1965 when the coolant was removed before the fuel. 60% of her fuel assemblies were stuck inside one of the reactor cores. The core was removed whole, kept for two years, AND THEN DUMPED IN TSIVOLKI BAY - Had a second nuclear accident in 1967 after a coolant leak. The leak was located by BEATING THE SHIELDING WITH SLEDGEHAMMERS. This caused enough damage the reactor was deemed non-repairable, leading to all three cores being removed from the vessel with shaped charges - Decommissioned in 1989, due to her hull being worn thin by ice friction. Still survives as a museum ship

US Navy nuclear powered guided missile cruiser - launched April 15th, 1961 - Launched as the first nuclear powered destroyer of the USN, she was the only ship in her class - Part of the all nuclear Task Force One, which participated in Operation Sea Orbit, the first circumnavigation of the world by nuclear powered warships - Decommissioned September 13th, 1996 - Recycled October 30th, 1999

Anchorage-class dock landing ship operated by the United States Navy - Launched April 17th, 1971 - Participated in the evacuation of Saigon - Appeared on the television show The Love Boat on February 4th, 1984 - Dispatched to Alaska to support the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill - Became the first surface warship to be commanded by a woman in the USN, when Commander Maureen A. Farren took command on June 10th, 1998 - Sunk during Patrolling Thunder to the northwest of Kaua'i, Hawaii

The last seagoing paddle steamer in the world - Launched October 2nd, 1946 - Ordered to replace the PS Waverly, another paddle steamer that sank during the evacuation of Dunkirk - Sold by her operator, CalMac, to the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society for 1 pound - Underwent an extensive refit and was added to the National Historic Fleet - Continues to operate as a passenger vessel

Great lakes passenger steamer - Launched June 26th, 1892 - Considered a masterpiece of a great lakes steamer and the flagship of the Graham and Morton Line - Sent out for a late winter shipment of flour from Milwaukee only to be caught in a winter storm. She sank in Lake Michigan on January 21st, 1895. 21 crew and a single passenger went down with her. To this day, her wreckage has never been found with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum considering her a “Most Wanted” vessel

Ro-ro cargo ship operated out of the Faroe Islands - Completed in 1999 for the Finnish market - Sold to a Faroe Islands shipping line in 2023 - Experienced an explosion while in port at Hirtshals, killing one and injuring two more. She has since returned to operations

First of the large modern cruise ships - Launched November 15th, 1995 - First passenger ship to ever break 100,000 gross tons and broke the RMS Queen Elizabeth’s record for largest passenger ship, which had stood for 54 years

We know that some of the crew did manage to abandon the vessel, but they launched in obsolete open air lifeboats into a category 3 hurricane. At this point, their fates were preordained. Not a single crew member was recovered, alive or dead, and the lifeboat that was launched was discovered severely damaged.

Arleigh Burke-Class destroyer of the USN - Launched November 9th, 1994 - First destroyer in the US Navy built to accommodate women - First ship to engage a ballistic missile and a cruise missile at the same time - Remains in service, because the Arleigh Burke class will never die. Long live the Arleigh Burke!

the last nuclear-powered Guided Missile Cruiser in service in the USN - Launched September 22nd, 1971 - Participated in the failed rescue attempt Operation Eagle Claw during the Iranian Hostage rescue - Failed to survive the USN budget cuts of the 1990s, due to her expensive maintenance and crew requirements - Decommissioned on July 9th, 1999 - Recycled on May 12, 2000

American owned, Italian flagged, German operating cruise ship (The cruise industry is wacky) - Launched February 13th, 2009 - She has 13 decks and can sail with 2,100 passengers - The German pop singer Daniel Küblöck died after leaping overboard off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. His body was never recovered - Underwent a seven week retrofit for “AIDA Evolution” in late 2025, returning into service on December 10th, 2025

US Navy amphibious assault ship - Launched March 14th, 1997 - The name means "Good Man Richard", a reference to Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack and his position as ambassador to France - Participated in troop deployments and sorties during Operation Iraqi Freedom - Severely damaged after a fire broke out aboard her on July 12, 2020. The fire took five days to put out, largely due to the fact that the fire repression system had been disabled during maintenance and deficient training standards - A Seaman Apprentice was charged with aggravated arson, although he was later acquitted - Sold for scrap on April 9th, 2021, after the USN determined that repairing her would be too expensive - During her salvage the USMC salvaged 2 hull sections to use as training materials for VBSS operations

Egyptian owned Dive boat operating on the Red Sea - Launched 2022 - Sank on November 25th, 2024 after being struck by a wave. Of the 46 people aboard, 35 were ultimately rescued and an additional 4 bodies were recovered. 5 survivors were trapped in air pockets aboard the sunken vessel for 35 hours before being rescued - The vessel was found to have had inadequate safety equipment and may have been unstable prior to sailing

Ice class ship built for the Norwegian fisheries department - Launched 1956 - Purchased by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in August of 1996 to use as an observation vessel for their mission of monitoring the fishing industry - Seized by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans off of Newfoundland in April 2008, due to actions she had taken while monitoring the Canadian seal season - the SSCS claimed that her seizure was intentional, in order to leave a useless vessel in the hands of the Canadian government to deal with - Sold for scrap on July 26th, 2017

Former anti-whaling vessel - Launched July 8th, 1950 - Originally built and served as a Norwegian whaling vessel - Sold from Norwegian hands to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - She was refitted for anti-whaling work using funds from the former host of The Price is Right!, Bob Barker, who she was renamed to honor - Rescued the crew of MY Andy Gil after her collision with MV Shonan Maru 2 - Ultimately would collide with the Japanese vessels Yushin Maru No. 3 and Nisshin Maru - Sold for scrap on November 12, 2022

Dutch river cruise ship - Launched August 27th, 2005 - The vessel is one of the two Dutch river cruise ships specifically designed to accommodate disabled passengers - Collided with a cargo ship on March 29th, 2025 on the Rhine. The accident was caused by the cargo ship’s captain being intoxicated - Returned to service on July 7th, 2025