** Teddy Seymour is officially designated the first black man to sail around the world, when he completes his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands.

**, a sailing replica of Cook's Endeavour

** Tour de France à la voile, a sailing competition around France

** * msy Wind Star, one of Windstar's sailing vessels

** Adlard Coles Nautical – a sailing list

** Thomas Reed – a sailing list

** Gorch Fock ( 1933 ), the first sailing ship named after him

** El Toro ( dinghy ), a class of sailing dinghy

** Royal Order, signed ' El Rey ', commanding Don Balthasar Coymans, Don Juan Barrosa & Don Nicolas Porzio to assemble ten Capuchin monks ( Franciscan friars ) from either Cadiz or Amsterdam for the purpose of sailing to the coast of Africa to buy slaves, to convert them to Christianity and sell them in the West Indies, 25 March 1685 Balthasar & Johan Coymans.

** Sailing: This statistic represented the crew's skill at sailing.

** Polnocny class landing ship 3

** 1 ship ( 1, 000 GRT or over ) totaling 1, 587 GRT /

** ( 1936 ) Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, and the most decorated US Navy ship

** USS Harpers Ferry ( LSD-49 ), a Harpers Ferry class dock landing ship of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1995

** IMO ship identification number, unique identity numbers issued to seacraft ( pattern " 1234567 ")

** Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the only completed ship of this class

** cargo ship 26

** cargo ship 1

** container ship 1

** USS Sacramento ( AOE-1 ) was the lead ship of Sacramento-class fast combat support ships, commissioned in 1964 and decommissioned in 2004.

** Ships by type: bulk carrier 39, cargo ship 135, chemical tanker 3, combination bulk carrier 1, container ship 13, liquified gas 19, multi-functional large load carrier 3, passenger ship 1, petroleum tanker 63, refrigerated cargo ship 13, roll-on / roll-off 2, short-sea passenger 2, specialized tanker 5 ( 1999 est.

** LNG carrier, a ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas

** Vasa ( ship ), a Swedish warship that sank in 1628, since restored

** Vasa Museum, Stockholm, where the restored ship is currently displayed

** At Jamestown, Virginia, Christopher Newport returns in a ship with the First Supply and about 100 new settlers ; he finds only 38 survivors.

** Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff with 10, 000 casualties ( d. 1963 )

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

** Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing about 800 of her crewmen and crippling the ship.

** The United States seizes the French ship.

** Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI is the first Allied ship to sink a Japanese warship, sinking the destroyer Sagiri near Sarawak ; K XVI is herself torpedoed the following day by Japanese submarine I 66.

** Irish-born Australian Catholic Bishop Daniel Mannix is detained onboard ship off Queenstown and prevented from landing in Ireland or from speaking in the main Irish Catholic communities elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

** Great Pamir, a high valley in the Wakhan on the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan

** Little Pamir, a high valley in the Wakhan, Afghanistan

** The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.

** The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros ; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.

** The paddlewheel steamer sinks off the Georgia coast, with a cargo of $ 400, 000 in coins.

** WWII: A Japanese submarine sinks the surfaced U. S. submarine USS Corvina near Truk.

** An Indonesian ferry sinks off the northern tip of Sumatra, drowning more than 100 people.

** An overcrowded ferry sinks off the coast of Irois, Haiti, killing more than 200 people.

** The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters in Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1, 000 in one of Africa's worst maritime disasters.

** Off Scotland, sinks on rocks ; 206 die.

** The HMS Hampshire sinks off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard.

** Severe earthquakes strike the Azores and the village of São Miguel sinks.

** WWII: A Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks the British ship RMS Lancastria, which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing some 5, 800 men.

** The Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia ; 244 die.

** An Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors.

** The-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board ( an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot ).

** Falklands War: The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors.

** The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov sinks in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

** The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev in the Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.

** The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast, causing a huge oil spill.

** A 60-plane U. S. strike from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, sinks two Japanese destroyers and badly damages a third off Kolombangara.

** The Japanese submarine I-175 torpedoes and sinks the U. S. Navy escort aircraft carrier 20 nautical miles ( 37 km ) southwest of Butaritari with the loss of 644 lives, including that of Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix ; there are 272 survivors.

** The U. S. Navy submarine torpedoes and sinks the Japanese aircraft carrier Chūyō near Hachijōjima with the loss of over 1, 243 lives, including 20 American prisoners-of-war.