List of ships named America

America is a commonly used name of ships. It refers to the American continent. This got its name from Martin Waldseemüller after the discoverer Amerigo Vespucci . For many ships the name was written in the Latin or English version America . There is also the English variant American for "American".

Ship list

designation	Ship type	Class / type	Construction year	Shipyard	Owner	period of service	Whereabouts
America^{Receipt ?}	Ship of the line		1757	Wells & Stanton, London	Royal Navy		Wrecked in 1771
America^{Receipt ?}	Ship of the line	Intrepid class	1777	Deptford	Royal Navy		Wrecked in 1807
America^{Receipt ?}	Ship of the line		1782		United States Navy	not put into service	Sold to France, broken up in 1786
America^{Receipt ?}	Ship of the line	Téméraire class	1788	Brest	French Navy	1789 to 1794	Captured by the Royal Navy in 1794, renamed HMS Impétueux , scrapped in 1813
America^{Receipt ?}	Ship of the line	Vengeur class	1810	Blackwall Yard , London	Royal Navy		Wrecked in 1867
America^{Receipt ?}	Paddle steamer		1848		Cunard Line	1848 to	Wrecked in 1875
America^{Receipt ?}	Cargo ship		1850	new York	Austrian Lloyd	1850 to 1875 (acquisition by ÖL: 1856)
America	yacht		1851	William H. Brown, New York			Wrecked in 1946
America^{Receipt ?}	corvette		1857		Imperial Russian Navy	1857 to 1883
America	Barque		1860	Gross brothers, Hammelwarden	Albers & Claussen		Sold in 1882 and renamed America , scrapped in 1900
America^{Receipt ?}	Passenger ship		1863		North German Lloyd	1863 to 1894
American	whaler				United States Navy	-	Sunk on December 20, 1861
America^{Receipt ?}	Passenger ship		1869	George Steers and Co , Greenpoint	Pacific Mail Steamship Company	1869 to 1872	Burned in 1872
America	Passenger ship		1872	Harland & Wolff , Belfast	Thingvalla line	1893 to 1898	Wrecked in 1898
America^{Receipt ?}	Cargo ship		1898	Detroit		1898 to 1928	Sunk on June 6, 1928
American^{Receipt ?}	Cargo ship		1900	Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works , Chester	American-Hawaiian Steamship Company	1900 to 1925	Renamed Honolulan in 1925 , scrapped in 1926
America / America	Passenger ship		1905	Harland & Wolff, Belfast	HAPAG / United States Shipping Board / United States Lines	1905 to 1914 ( America ) 1917 to 1932 ( America )	Renamed Edmund B. Alexander in 1940 , scrapped in 1957
Goldenfels / America	Cargo ship		1911	Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle upon Tyne	DDG Hansa / Brock Steamship / Schulte & Bruns	1911 to 1921 ( Goldenfels ) 1921 to 1923 ( Brocktown ) 1923 to 1936 ( Goldenfels ) 1936 to 1942 ( America )	Sunk on February 21, 1942
America	Passenger ship		1930	Burmeister & Wain , Copenhagen	Det Østasiatiske Kompagni	1930 to 1943	Sunk on April 22, 1943
America	Passenger ship		1940	Newport News Shipbuilding , Newport News	United States Line	1940 to 1942 1946 to 1964	Sold to Okeania SA in 1964 and renamed Australis , stranded in 1994
America	tractor		1944	Decatur Iron & Steel, Decatur	Drakotas J., Piraeus	1944 to 2008	2012 in motion
America	tractor		1956	Gulfport Shipbuilding, Port Arthur	Mullane Brothers Marine, Norfolk	since 2009	2012 in motion
America	Aircraft carrier	Kitty Hawk class	1964	Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News	United States Navy	1965 to 1996	Sunk on May 14, 2005
America	tractor		1983			1982 to 2007	In Constellation MARITI renamed as Orion momentum
America	Amphibious assault ship	America class	2012	Huntington Ingalls Industries , Pascagoula	United States Navy	not yet put into service