Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
The ironclads’ 1862 battle is usually considered a draw, as neither sunk the other, but the Virginia was trying to break the US Navy’s blockade of the Confederacy, and the Monitor kept her from doing so.
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
- RMS Queen Mary
Legend has it that Cunard intended to name the ship Victoria , in keeping with company tradition of giving its ships names ending in “ia”, but when company representatives asked the King’s permission to name the ocean liner after Britain’s “greatest Queen”, he said his wife, Mary of Teck, would be delighted.
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
- RMS Queen Mary
- Santa Maria
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
- RMS Queen Mary
- Santa Maria
- USS Enterprise
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
- RMS Queen Mary
- Santa Maria
- USS Enterprise
- RMS Titanic
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
- RMS Queen Mary
- Santa Maria
- USS Enterprise
- RMS Titanic
- RMS Lusitania
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
- RMS Queen Mary
- Santa Maria
- USS Enterprise
- RMS Titanic
- RMS Lusitania
- Golden Hind
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
- RMS Queen Mary
- Santa Maria
- USS Enterprise
- RMS Titanic
- RMS Lusitania
- Golden Hind
- Halve Maen
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
- RMS Queen Mary
- Santa Maria
- USS Enterprise
- RMS Titanic
- RMS Lusitania
- Golden Hind
- Halve Maen
- Argo
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
- RMS Queen Mary
- Santa Maria
- USS Enterprise
- RMS Titanic
- RMS Lusitania
- Golden Hind
- Halve Maen
- Argo
- Endurance
Famous ships
- HMS Bounty
- Mary Celeste
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
- RMS Queen Mary
- Santa Maria
- USS Enterprise
- RMS Titanic
- RMS Lusitania
- Golden Hind
- Halve Maen
- Argo
- Endurance
- SS Andrea Doria
Italian passenger ship that sank in 240 feet of water of Nantucket after colliding with the MS Stockholm in July 1956. The Stockholm survived the incident and was repaired, and over the years passed through various hands, was converted to a cruise ship and rechristened the MV Astoria, and remained in service until the COVID pandemic of 2020 effectively halted cruise operations worldwide. It is currently laid up in Rotterdam, its future uncertain.
Automobiles That Have, At One Time or Another, Held the Land Speed Record
- Spirit of America (1963) – 407.447 mph (655.722 kph)
The original ‘Spirit of America’, it was memorialized in a song by the Beach Boys released later that same year.
-“BB”-
Automobiles That Have, At One Time or Another, Held the Land Speed Record
- Spirit of America (1963) – 407.447 mph (655.722 kph)
- The Blue Flame (1970) - 622 mph (1001 kph)
Automobiles That Have, At One Time or Another, Held the Land Speed Record
- Spirit of America (1963) – 407.447 mph (655.722 kph)
- The Blue Flame (1970) - 622 mph (1001 kph)
- Mors Z Paris-Vienne (1902) - 76 mph (122 kph)
First record with an internal combustion engine.
Automobiles That Have, At One Time or Another, Held the Land Speed Record
- Spirit of America (1963) – 407.447 mph (655.722 kph)
- The Blue Flame (1970) - 622 mph (1001 kph)
- Mors Z Paris-Vienne (1902) - 76 mph (122 kph)
- ThrustSCC (1997) - 760.035 mph (1227.985 kph)
The current record holder.
Automobiles That Have, At One Time or Another, Held the Land Speed Record
- Spirit of America (1963) – 407.447 mph (655.722 kph)
- The Blue Flame (1970) - 622 mph (1001 kph)
- Mors Z Paris-Vienne (1902) - 76 mph (122 kph)
- ThrustSCC (1997) - 760.035 mph (1227.985 kph)
- Golden Arrow (1929) - 231.36mph (327.34 kph)
Interesting that the current record has stood for 25 years
Automobiles That Have, At One Time or Another, Held the Land Speed Record
- Spirit of America (1963) – 407.447 mph (655.722 kph)
- The Blue Flame (1970) - 622 mph (1001 kph)
- Mors Z Paris-Vienne (1902) - 76 mph (122 kph)
- ThrustSCC (1997) - 760.035 mph (1227.985 kph)
- Golden Arrow (1929) - 231.36mph (327.34 kph)
- FIAT Mephistopheles (1924) - 145.89 mph (234.98 km/h)
Automobiles That Have, At One Time or Another, Held the Land Speed Record
- Spirit of America (1963) – 407.447 mph (655.722 kph)
- The Blue Flame (1970) - 622 mph (1001 kph)
- Mors Z Paris-Vienne (1902) - 76 mph (122 kph)
- ThrustSCC (1997) - 760.035 mph (1227.985 kph)
- Golden Arrow (1929) - 231.36mph (327.34 kph)
- FIAT Mephistopheles (1924) - 145.89 mph (234.98 km/h)
- Jeantaud (1898) - 39.2 mph (63.13 km/h)
This is recognized as the first land speed record ever recorded. Jeantaud was a French company that supplied an electric car for this competition. The record was set when the driver of the Jeantaud completed a kilometer in 57 seconds.
Automobiles That Have, At One Time or Another, Held the Land Speed Record
- Spirit of America (1963) – 407.447 mph (655.722 kph)
- The Blue Flame (1970) - 622 mph (1001 kph)
- Mors Z Paris-Vienne (1902) - 76 mph (122 kph)
- ThrustSCC (1997) - 760.035 mph (1227.985 kph)
- Golden Arrow (1929) - 231.36mph (327.34 kph)
- FIAT Mephistopheles (1924) - 145.89 mph (234.98 km/h)
- Jeantaud (1898) - 39.2 mph (63.13 km/h)
- GCA Dogcart (1899) - 41.42 mph (66.66 kph)
The 2nd record holder, set exactly 30 days after the 1st and stood for less than a day
Automobiles That Have, At One Time or Another, Held the Land Speed Record
- Spirit of America (1963) – 407.447 mph (655.722 kph)
- The Blue Flame (1970) - 622 mph (1001 kph)
- Mors Z Paris-Vienne (1902) - 76 mph (122 kph)
- ThrustSCC (1997) - 760.035 mph (1227.985 kph)
- Golden Arrow (1929) - 231.36mph (327.34 kph)
- FIAT Mephistopheles (1924) - 145.89 mph (234.98 km/h)
- Jeantaud (1898) - 39.2 mph (63.13 km/h)
- GCA Dogcart (1899) - 41.42 mph (66.66 kph)
- Thrust2 (1983) - 634 mph (1020.406 kph)