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GasLog
GasLog Ltd. is an international owner, operator, and manager of liquefied natural gas carriers, formed in 2001 by the Livanos family shipping arm Ceres Hellenic and headquartered in Bermuda.
Gato-class submarine
The Gato-class submarine was a class of United States Navy fleet submarines, built from 1941, that formed the backbone of the American submarine campaign against Japan in World War II.
Gdańsk Shipyard
Gdańsk Shipyard (Stocznia Gdańska), known as the Lenin Shipyard from 1967 to 1989, is a Polish shipyard where the 1980 strikes led by Lech Wałęsa founded Solidarity.
Genco Shipping & Trading
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited is a New York City drybulk shipowner, incorporated in the Marshall Islands in 2004 and listed on the NYSE as GNK.
General average
General average is a maritime law principle requiring all parties to a sea voyage to share losses from an extraordinary sacrifice made for common safety, such as jettison.
Gepard-class frigate
The Gepard-class frigate, Russian Project 11661, is a class of light guided-missile frigates built at the Zelenodolsk shipyard in Tatarstan, with Vietnam as its largest export customer.
German battleship Gneisenau
The German battleship Gneisenau was a Scharnhorst-class Kriegsmarine capital ship, commissioned in 1938, that sank HMS Glorious in 1940 and operated with her sister Scharnhorst.
German battleship Scharnhorst
Scharnhorst was a German battleship, lead ship of her class, commissioned in 1939 and sunk at the Battle of North Cape with only 36 survivors of 1,968 aboard.
German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee
The German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, called a pocket battleship, sank nine Allied merchant ships in 1939 before being scuttled off Montevideo after the Battle of the River Plate.
German cruiser Admiral Hipper
The German cruiser Admiral Hipper, lead ship of her class, served in the Kriegsmarine during World War II and sank seven ships of convoy SLS.64.
German cruiser Admiral Scheer
The German cruiser Admiral Scheer, a Deutschland-class pocket battleship commissioned in 1934, is best known for her 1940–41 Atlantic raiding cruise, which sank 113,223 tons of shipping.
German cruiser Blücher
The German cruiser Blücher, also known as DKM Blücher, was a heavy cruiser sunk by Norwegian guns and torpedoes in the Oslofjord on 9 April 1940 while leading the force to capture Oslo.
German cruiser Deutschland
The German cruiser Deutschland, a German pocket battleship renamed Lützow in 1939, was commissioned in 1933, raided Atlantic commerce, and was sunk as a Soviet target in 1947.
German cruiser Prinz Eugen
Prinz Eugen, a German heavy cruiser of the Admiral Hipper class, was built in 1938 and survived the war, later serving in US atomic bomb tests.
German Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation
The German Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation (Bundesstelle für Seeunfalluntersuchung, BSU) is Germany's independent federal authority, based in Hamburg, that investigates marine casualties for safety without apportioning blame.
German submarine U-110 (1940)
German submarine U-110 was a Type IXB U-boat of the Kriegsmarine, captured by the Royal Navy on 9 May 1941 while attacking convoy OB 318, with her Enigma machine and codebooks aboard.
German submarine U-234
German submarine U-234 was a large Type XB minelayer of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, rebuilt as a long-range cargo submarine bound for Japan.
German submarine U-47 (1938)
German submarine U-47 was a Type VIIB U-boat of the Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, commanded by Günther Prien, best known for sinking HMS Royal Oak inside Scapa Flow in October 1939.
German submarine U-571
German submarine U-571 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, sunk with all 52 hands in the North Atlantic on 28 January 1944.
German submarine U-96 (1940)
U-96 was a German Type VIIC submarine of the Second World War, built in Kiel and commissioned in 1940, which sank 27 ships and became famous as the setting of Das Boot.
German training ship Gorch Fock (1958)
The Gorch Fock is the sail training ship of the German Navy, a three-masted steel barque built in 1958 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg to train officer candidates.
Ghost Shark (submarine)
Ghost Shark, also designated Ghost Shark XL-AUV, is an uncrewed extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle built by Anduril Australia for the Royal Australian Navy, entering the program of record in 2025.
Ghost ship
A ghost ship is a vessel found sailing or adrift with no crew, or a phantom ship of maritime folklore; the Mary Celeste is the defining case.
Gianluigi Aponte
Gianluigi Aponte (born 1940) is an Italian shipping magnate who founded MSC in Geneva in 1970 and built it into the world's largest container shipping line.
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is the international satellite and radio system that lets ships in distress automatically alert shore rescue authorities and nearby vessels.
Go-fast boat
A go-fast boat, or cigarette boat, is a long, narrow speedboat with high-output engines, built for speeds above ordinary craft and used in luxury boating and drug smuggling.
Gokstad ship
The Gokstad ship, in Norwegian Gokstadskipet, is a Viking Age clinker-built oak ship about 23.8 m long, buried in a mound at Gokstad in Sandefjord, Norway, and excavated in 1880.
Golden Age of Piracy
The Golden Age of Piracy, also called the Golden Age of Pirates, was a period of heightened piracy in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans from the 1680s to the 1720s.
Golden Hind
The Golden Hind, also known as the Golden Hinde, was Sir Francis Drake's flagship galleon, built at Plymouth in 1576 as the Pelican, on his 1577–1580 circumnavigation.
Golf-class submarine
The Golf-class submarine (Project 629) was a Soviet diesel-electric ballistic missile submarine, the first designed from the keel up to launch ballistic missiles, serving from 1959 to 1990.