Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
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Welcome to WikiProject Ships on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to ships of all types and eras. The project scope spans both naval and civilian ships, and articles on individual ships, ship classes, and other ship related topics are welcome.
This is a WikiProject, an open group of Wikipedia editors. New participants are welcome; feel free to talk to us!
WikiProject Ships is a group with a common interest in ships of all types and an international collection of participants. If you would like to join us, please feel free to sign up and help with ship articles. And don't worry – we get along more like an America's Cup match than Monitor and Merrimack(left). The project was featured in the 28 June 2010 issue of The Signpost.
As of 14 September 2026, there are 57,204 articles within the scope of WikiProject Ships, of which 349 are featured and 2,063 are good articles. This makes up 0.79% of the articles on Wikipedia, 2.94% of all featured articles and lists, and 4.6% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are 183,246 pages in the project.
To improve ship-related content throughout Wikipedia, the project uses Assessment and Review processes. Ship-related content is tagged by including the Project Banner on each article's discussion page.
Content that is of outstanding quality can be nominated for consideration under one of the featured content processes: articles, pictures, lists, sounds, topics, and portals.
Featured articles
These articles within the project scope have attained featured article (FA) status, and serve as examples of the quality of writing we aim to produce.
These are the 20 most recent WP:DYK entries for WikiProject Ships. Updated approximately weekly by User:JL-Bot.
This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk·contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged(e.g. {{WikiProject Ships}})or categorizedcorrectly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.
... that the French Navy used catapults on their ships after trials with the dispatch ship Bapaume concluded that launching platforms were unsafe?
... that the Ottoman Navy procured the Akhisar-, Antalya-, and Demirhisar-class torpedo boats(example pictured) from foreign countries as a diplomatic measure, instead of ordering warships for their capabilities?
... that the Vietnamese refugee vessel Tự Do reached Australia after a 6,000-kilometre (3,700mi) voyage guided by a compass and a map torn from a school desk?
... that several bodies from the wrecked freighter Hydrus(pictured) were never recovered due to superstitions about touching the dead among the Saugeen people?
... that in 2021, live yeast was retrieved from beer lost in a shipwreck 126 years before?
... that two inches of excess beam doomed the Confederate gunboat Appomattox?
... that the captain of the Annie Jane threatened to shoot anyone who turned the ship around, before it was wrecked?
... that Atlas(pictured) was the last of her kind to be built in the United States, and later became a canning company's flagship?
... that while writer Edgar J. March served as a war reserve constable during World WarII, he tussled with a burglar and chased him on a borrowed bicycle?
... that the shipentine Acme lost a trans-Pacific race against a damaged ship during her maiden voyage?
... that the crew of HSwMSVästervik were ordered to leave their possessions behind when the ship was decommissioned?
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