Trials with Smith's SS Archimedes, the first steam driven screw, led to the famous tug-of-war competition in 1845 between the screw-driven HMS Rattler and the paddle steamer HMS Alecto ; the former pulling the latter backward at 2. 5 knots ( 4. 6 km / h ).

* SS Ulysses ( Panama Collier No. 1 ), a World War I – era steel-hulled screw steamer

* SS Vesta, a French iron screw steamer known for colliding with the SS Arctic

*, a steel screw steamer in the Australian Navy also known as Adele and HMAS Adele

The B & NARMSPC responded with its first high speed screw propellered steamer, the Russia which was followed by two larger editions.

In 1885 the explorer Archibald Meston described the Barron Falls in flood where the raging waters " rush together like wild horses as they enter the straight in the dread finish of their last race ... ( where ) the currents of air created by the cataract waved the branches of the trees hundreds of feet overhead ... the rock shook like a mighty steamer tumbling with the vibrations of the screw.

*, a Confederate Navy screw steamer

*, was an iron screw steamer that saw action during the American Civil War.

*, was a screw steamer renamed from Piscataqua in 1869

* USS Pompanoosuc, a screw steamer whose building began in 1863, was renamed Connecticut on 15 May 1869, but never launched ; broken up in 1884

* A screw steamer, laid down as Keywaden in 1863 but never launched, was renamed Pennsylvania while she lay in the ways before being broken up in 1884

*, was a screw steamer built in 1860 ; served in the American Civil War and sold in 1866

*, was a wooden screw steamer launched in 1876 and sold in 1930

* CSS Shenandoah, a screw steamer

*, was a wooden screw steamer gunboat launched in 1861 and active in the American Civil War, then sold in 1865.

*, was a wooden screw steamer commissioned in 1876, and decommissioned in 1919

That screw steamer was short of officers due to the resignation of Southerners, so Read was detached from Supply and assigned to the new arrival.

Assigned to the Gulf Squadron, his screw steamer was stationed in Mississippi Sound where she joined screw gunboat in taking the lumber-laden schooner Olive shortly before midnight on 21 November 1861.

While paddle steamer warships had been used from the 1830s onwards, steam propulsion only became suitable for major warships after the adoption of the screw propeller in the 1840s.

*, was a captured Confederate screw steamer that ran aground in 1863

SS Elingamite was a single screw passenger steamer of 2585 tons, built in 1887 and owned by Huddart Parker.

* Detroit, a screw steamer, was laid down at the New York Navy Yard in 1865 but canceled in 1866 and broken up on the stocks

An interpretation of the steamship as a screw steamer

* The third Ocean was originally ordered to be built as a Bulwark-class wooden screw line-of battle ship intended to carry 91 guns.

In addition to twin screw propellers, it was originally designed to mount a 12-inch muzzle loading gun on a revolving pedestal.

* was originally the screw frigate USS Wampanoag, renamed in 1869, and sold in 1885.

* was a screw sloop originally named Minnetonka

* The third USS Tennessee ( 1869 ) was a wooden screw frigate originally built and named as Madawaska.

* USS Adirondack ( YT-44 ), was an iron-hulled screw tug originally known as the Underwriter.

** USS Currituck ( 1862 ), a Civil War screw steamer originally named Seneca

Bryozoa are abundant in some regions ; the fenestellids including Fenestella, Polypora, and Archimedes, so named because it is in the shape of an Archimedean screw.

* A screw sloop named Ontario was laid down in 1863 ; renamed New York in 1869, and sold while still on the stocks, in 1888.

On March 3, 1857 the U. S. Congress authorized five screw sloops of war, one of them the ( the first ship so named by the U. S. Navy ).

The Phillips-head (" crosshead ") screw and screwdriver are named after him.

* Henry F. Phillips ( 1890 – 1958 ), American businessman for which the Phillips-head screw and screwdriver is named

* Phillips-head screw, named after Henry F. Phillips

Ships left at the Norfolk shipyard included a screw frigate named USS Merrimack.

The shield was named the Barlow-Greathead shield and consisted of an iron cylinder in diameter fitted with screw jacks which enabled it to be jacked forward.

He was named commander in 1858 of the new screw corvette Erzherzog Friedrich on the coast of Morocco, then in a confused state of disorder.

* British Standard Whitworth ( BSW ), a specification for screw fasteners, named after Joseph Whitworth, below

*, a 1244-ton screw steamship, served during the American Civil War

He was then assigned to the Asiatic Station, and served there on the screw sloop Benicia until 1872 and was adjutant of the land forces during the attack by Rear Admiral John Rodgers's expedition on the Korean forts on Ganghwa Island on 10 June and 11 June 1871.

After a short tour of shore duty at Claymont, Delaware, he served at sea in the screw sloop until 1882.

He next served in steam sloop in the West Indies from 1873 to 1874, before reporting to the screw frigate on the European Station, and was promoted to master on February 8, 1875.

*, a wooden-hulled, screw sloop-of-war, was commissioned as Kenosha and served just after the American Civil War

*, was a screw sloop launched in 1858 and served until transferred to the US Treasury Department for use as a quarantine ship in 1913

* was a screw steamer launched in 1861 and served during the American Civil War.

During the Spanish-American War, he served aboard the screw steamer Maple, a tender, in Cuban waters.

*, a screw steamer in commission from 1873 to 1891, which served as the first Presidential yacht from 1880 until 1891

For the rest of the 1860s and into the next decade, Farquhar served in the screw sloop, was Executive Officer of the sloop and the frigate, and Commanding Officer of the gunboat.

*, a screw steamer which served in the Union, during the American Civil War.

*, a screw sloop-of-war that served in the Union during the American Civil War

He served aboard the frigate, flagship of the South Atlantic Squadron, from 1868 to 1869, was appointed as an ensign in 1869, and then served aboard the screw frigate, flagship of the European Station, from 1869 to 1871.

He performed another tour as a Naval Academy instructor from 1879 to 1882, teaching astronomy and navigation, then served in the North Atlantic Squadron aboard the screw frigate from 1882 to 1884.