• America (yacht)
  America (yacht)
  The America was a 19th century racing yacht that was the first to win the eponymous international sailing trophy now known as the America's Cup; in 1851 the trophy was known as the Royal Yacht Squadron's "One Hundred Guinea Cup", but was later renamed after the original winning yacht...
  
   pressed into United States naval service as a picket boat during the Civil War., was part of the Civil War “Stone Fleet” deliberately sunk to block the harbor in Charleston, S.C. While referenced as the USS America, her actual name was the USS American., originally the German ocean liner SS Amerika seized by the United States during World War I and used as a troop transport., an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1965 and decommissioned in 1996., an awarded for construction in June 2007 with an expected commissioning date in 2013.

See also

• Cunard America-class PS oceanliners
  RMS America Class
  The America class was the replacement for the Britannia class, the Cunard Line's initial fleet of wooden paddle steamers. Entering service starting in 1848, these six vessels permitted Cunard to double its schedule to weekly departures from Liverpool, with alternating sailings to New York. The...
  
  
  • RMS America