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Millvina Dean
Millvina Dean was a British woman who, at nine weeks old, was the youngest passenger aboard the Titanic and became the last surviving passenger of its sinking.
Minelayer
A minelayer is a naval vessel, submarine, or aircraft equipped to deploy sea mines, which damage ships, deny areas to enemies, or channelize their movement.
Minesweeper
A minesweeper, or naval minesweeper, is a vessel that clears sea mines by dragging detection or destruction gear through the water, as distinct from a minehunter.
Minotaur-class cruiser (1943)
The Minotaur class, also called the Swiftsure class, was a class of Royal Navy light cruisers armed with three triple 6-inch turrets, ordered in 1941.
Missile boat
A missile boat, or missile cutter, is a small fast warship armed primarily with anti-ship missiles, generally under 500 tons and capable of 30 knots or more.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki shipyard
The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works (長崎造船所) is a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipbuilding and machinery complex in Nagasaki, Japan, begun in 1857 as Japan's first warship repair facility.
Mogami-class frigate
The Mogami-class frigate, also known as the 30FFM, is a class of multi-mission frigates of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, crewed by about 90 and capable of mine countermeasures.
Moken houseboat
The Moken houseboat, called the kabang, is the traditional wooden dwelling-boat of the Moken, sea nomads of the Mergui Archipelago, where families lived aboard most of the year.
Mole (architecture)
A mole is a massive stone or masonry structure protecting a harbor from waves, currents, and silting, which may also carry a road, railway, or ship berths.
Monitor (warship)
A monitor is a small, heavily armored warship carrying guns in revolving turrets, named for USS Monitor, which fought CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads in 1862.
Monkey hanger
Monkey hanger is a colloquial nickname for a person from Hartlepool, a coastal town in County Durham, England, from a legend that townsfolk hanged a shipwrecked monkey believing it a French spy.
Monohull
A monohull is a boat or ship whose buoyancy is provided by a single hull, the historical norm for vessels, as distinct from multihulls such as catamarans and trimarans, which use two or more hulls.
Montana-class battleship
The Montana-class battleships were five battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1940, the last it ever ordered; none was built, canceled in 1943 before any keel was laid.
Mooring dolphin
A mooring dolphin is a standalone pile-built marine structure, fixed to the seabed, that provides a secure point for fastening a vessel's mooring lines where the quay is out of reach.
Mooring winch
A mooring winch is shipboard deck machinery that secures the shipboard end of a mooring line, adjusting length and compensating for changes in draft and tide while a vessel is berthed.
MS Achille Lauro
MS Achille Lauro, built as the Dutch liner Willem Ruys, was an Italian cruise ship known for the 1985 hijacking in which Leon Klinghoffer was murdered.
MS Estonia
MS Estonia was an Estonian passenger ferry that sank in the Baltic Sea on 28 September 1994 en route from Tallinn to Stockholm, killing 852 of 989 aboard.
MS Freedom of the Seas
MS Freedom of the Seas is a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, lead ship of the Freedom class, launched in 2006 as the world's largest cruise ship.
MS Gripsholm (1925)
MS Gripsholm was a Swedish passenger motor ship delivered in 1925, the first transatlantic liner powered by diesel engines, running Gothenburg to New York until 1954.
MS Herald of Free Enterprise
The MS Herald of Free Enterprise, a Channel ferry built in 1980 for Townsend Thoresen, capsized off Zeebrugge in March 1987 with her bow doors open, killing 193.
MS Mikhail Lermontov (Михаил Лермонтов)
MS Mikhail Lermontov (Михаил Лермонтов) was a Soviet cruise liner built in 1972 that struck rocks off Cape Jackson, New Zealand, and sank in 1986 with one life lost.
MS Queen Elizabeth
MS Queen Elizabeth is a Cunard cruise ship built by Fincantieri and delivered in 2010, named by Queen Elizabeth II as the third Cunard ship of that name.
MS Queen Victoria
MS Queen Victoria is a Panamax cruise ship operated by Cunard Line, built by Fincantieri in Venice and delivered in 2007, carrying about 2,000 passengers.
MS Rotterdam (2020)
MS Rotterdam is a Pinnacle-class cruise ship operated by Holland America Line, delivered by Fincantieri in 2021 as the line's flagship and the seventh ship to carry the name Rotterdam.
MS Silja Europa
MS Silja Europa, also known as Silja Europa, is a cruiseferry delivered in March 1993 as the largest ferry built at the time, serving Baltic routes for Silja Line and Tallink.
MS St. Louis
MS St. Louis, also known as SS St. Louis, was a German ocean liner denied entry by Cuba, the United States, and Canada while carrying 937 mostly Jewish refugees in 1939.
MS The World
MS The World is a private residential cruise ship launched in 2002, whose 165 apartments are owned by residents, who set its continuously circumnavigating global itinerary.
MS World Discoverer
MS World Discoverer was a German-built expedition cruise ship that struck an uncharted reef in the Solomon Islands in 2000 and was run aground in Roderick Bay.
MSC Cruises
MSC Cruises, also known as MSC Crociere, is a Geneva-headquartered cruise line of the MSC Group, the world's third largest and Europe's leader, with 25 ships.
MSC Euribia
MSC Euribia is a cruise ship delivered to MSC Cruises by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in 2023, the company's second LNG-powered vessel and fifth Meraviglia-series ship.