Famous Ships of Exploration:
unnamed drakkar - Viiking voyages to Iceland, Greenland, & North America
Nina (originally Santa Clara), Pinta, and Santa Maria (also called La Gallega) - Colombus, Caribbean
Matthew - John Cabot, Newfoundland & Nova Scotia
Sao Gabriel - Vasco de Gama, Cape of Good Hope to India
La Dauphine - Giovanni da Verrazano, US East Coast
Victoria, Concepcion, San Antonio, Santiago, Trinidad - Ferdinand Magellan, circumnavigation.
La Grande Hermine, La Petite Hermine, L'Emerillon - Jacques Cartier, Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Tiger - Sir Walter Raleigh, Virgina & the Carolinas
Golden Hind (originally Pelican) - Sir Francis Drake, circumnavigation
Triumph - Martin Frobisher, Frobisher Bay & Canada's north atlantic coast
Squirrel, Delight - Sir Humprey Gilbert, Newfoundland
D'Halve Maen - Henry Hudson, Hudson River
Eendracht - Jacques La Maire, Cape Horn
Centurion (originally Eagle) - George Anson, West coast of south & central america, China, Macao, Phillippines
Endeavour, (originally Earl of Pembroke, later La Liberte) - James Cook, Cook Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Falkland Islands
Truelove - Franklin, Arctic Ocean
Resolution (formerly Drake, Marquis of Granby), Adventure, Discovery - James Cook, Antarctica & Arctic Ocean
La Boudeuse, Etoile - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, circumnavigation
Turtle - David & Ezra Bushnell, first military submarine
La Boussole (originally Le Portefaix), L'Astrolabe - Comte de la Perouse, south pacific
Alexander - Arthur Phillip, Sydney Bay
La Recherche - La Chevalier d'Entrecasteaux, Tasmania & Australia
Constitution - ???, circumnavigation
L'Uranie (originally La Ciotat) - Louis-Claude de Freycinet, Australia & the south seas
L'Astrolabe (originally Coquille) - Jules Dumont D'Urville, South magnetic pole
Beagle - Charles Darwin, circumnavigation
James Watt - first steamship entered in Lloyd's Registry of Shipping
Erebus, Terror - James Clark Ross, Antarctica & Arctic Ocean
Agamemnon, Niagara - together laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable
Fram - Fridtjof Nansen, North Pole; Roald Amundsen, South Pole
Goa - Roald Amundsen, North Pole
Gronland - German North Polar Expedition
Hansteen - Norweigian Coastal Survey
Hydro-Dome IV - Alexander Graham Bell, world's first true hydrofoil
Nautilus - Captain Nemo #:-], First nuclear-powered vessel, Geographic Noth Pole
Gypsy Moth IV - Francis Chichester, solo circumnavigation
Glomar Explorer - CIA, nuclear submarine recovery
Healy - US Navy, Arctic & Antarctic oceans