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USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship that served in World War II, Korea, and the Persian Gulf War, now a museum ship in Norfolk, Virginia.
USS Worcester (CL-144)
USS Worcester (CL-144) was a light cruiser of the United States Navy, lead ship of the two-ship Worcester class, built around rapid-fire 6-inch dual-purpose guns.
USS Yorktown (CG-48)
USS Yorktown (CG-48) was a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1984 and decommissioned in 2004, the fifth Navy ship of the name.
Utsuro-bune (うつろ舟)
Utsuro-bune (うつろ舟), also read Utsuro-fune or Urobune, is a Japanese legend from 1803 about a round vessel that drifted ashore in Hitachi Province carrying a foreign woman.
Valsgärde boat burials
The Valsgärde boat burials are fifteen unlooted Iron Age boat graves near Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, excavated between 1928 and 1952, known for rare Vendel-period helmets that became a standard of comparison for Sutton Hoo.
Vanguard-class submarine
The Vanguard class, known as the Vanguard nuclear submarine class, is four Royal Navy ballistic missile submarines carrying Trident II D5 missiles, the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent.
Vaporetto
A vaporetto is a motor-powered waterbus used for scheduled public transport on the canals and lagoon of Venice, Italy, operated by ACTV, whose first vessel appeared on the Grand Canal in 1881.
Vasa (ship)
Vasa, also known as Regalskeppet Vasa, was a Swedish warship built for King Gustavus Adolphus that sank in 1628, minutes into her maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor.
Vaygach (1989 icebreaker)
Vaygach (Вайгач) is a Russian shallow-draft nuclear icebreaker of the Taymyr class, built at Wärtsilä's Helsinki shipyard with its reactor installed in the Soviet Union and commissioned in 1990.
Very large crude carrier
A very large crude carrier (VLCC) is a crude oil tanker of at least 200,000 tonnes deadweight, the largest tanker class in service, first appearing in 1965.
Vessel traffic service
A vessel traffic service (VTS) is a shore-side system established by a maritime authority to improve the safety and efficiency of vessel traffic in ports, waterways, and coastal areas.
Victory ship
The Victory ship was a class of 534 mass-produced cargo vessels built for the U.S. Maritime Commission during World War II as faster successors to the Liberty ship.
Victory-class multi-role combat vessel
The Victory-class multi-role combat vessel is a class of six warships built by ST Engineering for the Republic of Singapore Navy, serving as motherships for unmanned systems.
Viking Line
Viking Line is a Finnish shipping company operating cruise ferries on the Baltic Sea between Finland, Sweden, and Estonia, founded in 1959 in the Åland Islands.
Vikrant-class aircraft carrier
The Vikrant-class aircraft carrier is a class of Indian Navy aircraft carrier whose lead ship, INS Vikrant, is India's first indigenously designed and built carrier.
Virgin Voyages
Virgin Voyages, announced in 2014 as Virgin Cruises, is an adults-only cruise line founded by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, operating four Fincantieri-built Lady Ships including Scarlet Lady.
Virginia V (steamship)
Virginia V is a wooden-hulled passenger steamship built in 1922 at Maplewood, Washington, the last survivor of the Puget Sound mosquito fleet and a National Historic Landmark that cruises from Lake Union in Seattle.
Virginia-class cruiser
The Virginia-class cruiser was a class of four nuclear-powered guided-missile cruisers of the United States Navy, built at Newport News and commissioned between 1976 and 1980.
Virginia-class submarine
The Virginia-class submarine (SSN 774) is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines in the United States Navy, built jointly by Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding.
Visakhapatnam-class destroyer
The Visakhapatnam class (Project 15B) is a class of four stealth guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy, built in Mumbai as a follow-on to the Kolkata class.
VLEC
A VLEC (Very Large Ethane Carrier) is a liquefied gas ship designed to carry refrigerated ethane over long ocean routes, with capacities of roughly 85,000 to 100,000 cubic meters.
VLOC
A VLOC (very large ore carrier), also called a very large bulk carrier, is a dry bulk ship above 200,000 tons deadweight, built mainly for the Brazil-to-China iron ore trade.
Voyage charter
A voyage charter is a shipping contract in which a shipowner carries a charterer's cargo between named ports for freight, retaining control of the vessel.
Wadia family
The Wadia family is a Parsi family of Bombay that ran the Bombay Dockyard for nine generations from 1736 to 1884, building teak warships for the Royal Navy.
Wahine disaster
The Wahine disaster was the sinking of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine at the entrance to Wellington Harbour on 10 April 1968, in which 53 people died.
Waka (canoe)
Waka is the Māori word for canoe, covering the watercraft used by Māori in New Zealand, from double-hulled ocean voyaging canoes to large war canoes.
Waka ama
Waka ama is the Māori term for an outrigger canoe, and the racing sport built around it, revived in New Zealand in the 1980s with more than 85 clubs today.
Waka hourua
Waka hourua is the Māori term for a double-hulled sailing canoe used by Polynesian voyagers across the Pacific and by the first settlers of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Wake fraction
Wake fraction is a dimensionless coefficient in ship propulsion expressing how much the water at the propeller is slowed by the hull's passage, entering propeller load and efficiency predictions.
Walking the plank
Walking the plank is a form of execution in which a captive is forced off a plank into the sea, famous as a pirate punishment despite little historical evidence.