Naval ship

HMS Invincible, a British aircraft carrier

USS Port Royal, an American cruiser

A Berlin-class replenishment ship of the German Navy

HMCS Algonquin, a Canadian destroyer

HMAS Darwin, an Australian frigate

Al-Fahaheel, a La Combattante-class fast attack craft of the Kuwaiti Navy

A naval ship is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) used by a navy.

Types of ships

• Aircraft carrier – ships that are mobile seaborne airfields. They were designed for the purpose of doing combat by Carrier-based aircraft. They do attacks against airborne, surface, sub-surface and shore targets.
• Surface combatant – big, heavily armed surface ships. They are designed mostly to engage enemy forces on the high seas, including various types of battleship, battlecruiser, cruiser, destroyer, frigate, and corvette.
• Submarine – self-propelled sjips that go underwater. They can be combatant, auxiliary, or research and development vehicles which have at least a slight combat ability.
• Patrol combatant – combatants whose mission may extend beyond coastal duties and whose characteristics include adequate endurance and sea keeping providing a capability for operations exceeding 48 hours on the high seas without support.
• Amphibious warfare – ships having organic capability for amphibious assault and which have characteristics enabling long duration operations on the high seas.
• Combat logistics – ships that have the capability to provide underway replenishment to fleet units.
• Mine warfare – ships whose primary function is mine warfare on the high seas.
• Coastal defense – ships whose primary function is coastal patrol and interdiction.
• Sealift – ships that have the capability to provide direct material support to other deployed units operating far from home base.
• Support – ships, such as oilers, designed to operate in the open ocean in a variety of sea states to provide general support to either combatant forces or shore based establishments. (Includes smaller auxiliaries which, by the nature of their duties, leave inshore waters).
• Service type craft – navy-subordinated craft (including non-self-propelled) designed to provide general support to either combatant forces or shore-based establishments.

Size

See the main article: Warship

In weight (largest to smallest), modern naval ships are often put into different groups (called classes). The bigger ships in the list can also be classed as capital ships:

• Aircraft carrier
• Helicopter carrier
• Battleship
• Battlecruiser
• Heavy cruiser
• Light cruiser
• Destroyer
• Frigate
• Corvette
• Patrol boat
• Fast attack craft

Other websites

Media related to Naval ships at Wikimedia Commons

• "US Navy Ships". Official Website of the United States Navy. Archived from the original on 10 April 2008. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
• Jordan, Valinsky (30 April 2015). "Here's the Entire U.S. Navy Fleet in One Chart". Official Website of the United States Navy. Retrieved 26 March 2017.*"United States Naval Recognition Training Slides-Grand Valley State University Archives and Special Collections". Archived from the original on 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2019-01-01.