Warship - Types of Warship

Types of Warship

• Armored cruiser
• Amphibious assault ship
• Aircraft carrier – a warship primarily armed with combat aircraft.
• Battlecruiser – a ship with battleship level armament and cruiser level armor; typically faster than a battleship because the reduction in armor allowed mounting of heavier propulsion machinery.
• Battleship – a large, heavily-armoured and heavily-gunned warship. A term which generally post-dates sailing warships.
• Bireme – an ancient vessel, propelled by two banks of oars.
• Capital ship – The largest and most important ships in a nation's fleet
• Commerce raider
• Corvette – a small, lightly armed, but fast ship.
• Cruiser – a fast independent warship. Traditionally, cruisers were the smallest warships capable of independent action. Now virtually disappeared from the oceans, along with battleships and battlecruisers.
• Destroyer – a fast and highly maneuverable warship, traditionally incapable of independent action (originally developed to counter the threat of torpedo boats) but now the largest independent warship generally seen on the ocean.
• Dreadnought – an early 20th century battleship, which set the pattern for all subsequent battleship construction.
• Fast attack craft
• Fireship – a vessel of any sort, set on fire and sent into an anchorage with the aim of causing destruction and forcing an enemy fleet to put to sea in a vulnerable state.
• Frigate
• Galleass – a sailing and rowing warship, equally well suited to sailing and rowing.
• Galleon – a 16th century sailing warship.
• Galley – a warship propelled by oars with a sail for use in a favourable wind.
• Guided missile destroyer
• Gunboat
• Heavy cruiser
• Helicopter carrier – an aircraft carrier especially suited to helicopters and amphibious assault.
• Ironclad – a wooden warship with external iron plating.
• Longship – a Viking raiding ship.
• Man-of-war – a sailing warship.
• Minesweeper
• Minehunter
• Minelayer
• Missile boat
• Monitor – a small, heavily gunned warship with shallow draft designed for land bombardment.
• Naval trawler
• Naval drifter
• Offshore patrol vessel
• Pocket battleship
• Pre-dreadnought battleship
• Protected cruiser
• Quinquereme – an ancient warship propelled by three banks of oars. On the upper row two rowers hold one oar, on the middle row – two rowers, and on the lower row – one man to an oar.
• Ship of the line – a sailing warship capable of standing in the line of battle.
• Sloop
• Submarine – a ship capable of remaining underwater for extended periods. Submarines in the world wars could stay under for less than a day, but development of nuclear reactors and air-independent propulsion allows submarines to stay submerged for weeks, even months at a time.
• Torpedo boat – a small, fast surface vessel designed for launching torpedoes.
• Trireme – an ancient warship propelled by three banks of oars.