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"Nasty Nick" – USS Nicholas, name given by crew due to the proclivity of the ship's AC units to break down in hot weather. "Nelly" – HMS Nelson – also "Nelsol" – from fleet oilers with names ending in "ol" that the Nelson class looked similar to in silhouette. "Niffy Jane" – HMS Iphigenia "NO Boat" – USS New Orleans
USS Columbia – aircraft carrier (Seven former, one current, and one future US Navy ships share that name, none of them an aircraft carrier) Reduktor – Soviet intelligence ship; Final Flight, 1988 USS United States – Nimitz-class aircraft carrier (A US Navy aircraft carrier was to have had that name, but the ship was cancelled.) America, 2001
Messiah – an Orion spacecraft designed to prevent a comet hitting Earth in the 1998 film Deep Impact. Nightflyer – craft from the American horror science fiction television series Nightflyers [25] Odyssey – spacecraft designed to visit Saturn 's moon Titan in the 2013 film Oblivion.
Boaty McBoatface [2] [7] (also known as Boaty) [1] [6] is the British lead boat in a fleet of three robotic lithium battery –powered autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) of the Autosub Long Range (ALR) class. [1] [5] Launched in 2017 and carried on board the polar scientific research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough, she is a focal point of ...
t. e. This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about the Royal Navy.
For sailing ships, see: List of sailing boat types This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Cross of War. Military Medal. Legion of Honour. Ribbons. v. t. e. This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the French Navy. Names are traditionally re-used over the years, and have been carried by more than one ship.
Battleship. A large, heavily armored and heavily gunned powered warship. Bilander. A ship or brig with a lug-rigged mizzen sail. Bireme. An ancient vessel, propelled by two banks of oars. Birlinn. (Scots) Clinker-built vessel, single-masted with a square sail also capable of being rowed. Blockade runner.