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Ship
A ship is a large watercraft that carries cargo, passengers, or performs specialized work at sea, distinct from a boat by size, typically over 500 tons displacement.
Ship breaking
Ship breaking, also called ship recycling, dismantles end-of-life ships to recover steel and machinery; it is among the most dangerous occupations, concentrated in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Türkiye.
Ship burial
Ship burial is a funerary practice in which a ship or boat, sometimes with the dead and grave goods aboard, is interred under a mound or in a grave.
Ship chandler
A ship chandler is a seaport merchant that supplies vessels with provisions, stores, spare parts, safety equipment, and bonded goods, delivering directly to ships in port.
Ship class
A ship class is a group of ships, usually warships, built to substantially the same design and typically named for the lead ship, as distinct from ship types such as destroyer.
Ship delivery
Ship delivery is the shipbuilding stage at which the builder hands the completed vessel over to the buyer after sea trials, when title and risk pass.
Ship loader
A ship loader is a large conveyor-based machine at a port that loads bulk cargo such as coal, ore, and grain into a ship's holds.
Ship model basin
A ship model basin is a water tank laboratory where scale models of ships are towed to predict full-size performance, begun by William Froude in 1872.
Ship mortgage
A ship mortgage is a registered security interest in a vessel granted by its owner to a lender to secure a loan, enforceable against the ship through arrest and sale.
Ship naming and launching
Ship naming and launching is the ceremony in which a new ship is blessed, named, and entered into the water, usually with a sponsor breaking a bottle of champagne.
Ship of the line
A ship of the line, or line-of-battle ship, was a heavily armed sailing warship of the 17th to early 19th century, built to fight in the line-of-battle formation.
Ship prefix
A ship prefix is a short code placed before a ship's name, as in USS Enterprise or RMS Titanic, identifying its navy, nationality, propulsion type, or service role.
Ship registration
Ship registration is the act of entering a vessel in a State's official register of ships, giving it that State's nationality and the right to fly its flag.
Ship to Shore Connector
The Ship to Shore Connector (SSC) is an amphibious air cushion landing craft built by Textron Systems to replace the United States Navy's LCAC fleet.
Ship-Submarine Recycling Program
The Ship-Submarine Recycling Program (SRP) is the US Navy's program for disposing of defueled nuclear submarines and cruisers, centered at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, since 1991.
Ship's bell
A ship's bell is a bell carried aboard a vessel to mark the passage of time, sound fog signals, and serve ceremonies, with records dating to around 1436.
Ship's cat
A ship's cat is a cat carried aboard a vessel, historically to catch rats and mice damaging stores and ropes, and to serve as companion and mascot.
Ship's wheel
A ship's wheel, also called a boat's wheel, is the spoked steering wheel a helmsman turns to control a ship's rudder, replacing the whipstaff in the early 1700s.
Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding, also called ship construction or the shipbuilding industry, designs and constructs ships at shipyards, an industry tied to maritime transport carrying over 80% of world trade.
Shipbuilding steel
Shipbuilding steel is the family of plate and section steels certified by classification societies for ship hulls and marine structures, typically mild steel with controlled strength, weldability, and resistance to brittle fracture.
Shiplap
Shiplap is a wooden board with rabbeted edges that overlap, long used as exterior siding and sheathing, and since the 2010s as decorative interior paneling.
Shipping container
A shipping container is a standardized reusable steel box built to ISO dimensions for moving goods by ship, rail, and truck; the modern intermodal system began in 1956.
Shippingport Atomic Power Station
The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was a pressurized water reactor plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, the first US commercial nuclear station, producing power from 1957 to 1982.
Ships of the Royal Navy
Ships of the Royal Navy is a reference work by J. J. Colledge listing every fighting ship of the Royal Navy from the fifteenth century to the present.
Ships sunk by aircraft
Ships sunk by aircraft is an overview article covering the weapons, tactics, and statistics of air attack on shipping, from Taranto in 1940 through World War II.
Shipshaw hydroelectric plant
The Shipshaw hydroelectric plant (centrale de Shipshaw) is a run-of-river generating station on the Saguenay River in Saguenay, Quebec, owned by Rio Tinto Alcan and rated at 1,145 MW.
Shipwreck
A shipwreck is the destruction or sinking of a ship at sea, or the damaged remains of a vessel that has sunk or run aground.
Shipyard
A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boat yard, is an industrial facility with dry docks and fabrication equipment where ships are constructed, repaired, and converted.
Shire (pharmaceutical company)
Shire plc, also known as Shire Pharmaceuticals, was a Jersey-registered, Dublin-headquartered biopharmaceutical company founded in the UK in 1986, acquired by Takeda for roughly $62 billion in 2019.
Shirley Meng
Y. Shirley Meng, born Ying Shirley Meng, is a battery materials scientist who is the Liew Family Professor at the University of Chicago and studies battery interfaces.