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A bronze wolf which would have decorated the lengthwise beams on a Roman ship. The wolf was made using the lost-wax technique and dates to between 37 and 41 CE. The ring had no function other than decorative, used on occasions to hang garlands...

Relief ship carrying supplies to Belgium, c. 1915. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Artist's impression of Dutch explorers meeting a French ship near the coastline, with a port town and mountains in the background. Created by Amplitude Studios for the video game Humankind.

A detail from a Japanese painted screen showing a Portuguese carrack at the port of Nagasaki, a Portuguese trading post from c. 1571 to 1639. Screen painted by Kanō Naizen. (Kobe City Museum, Japan)

A bronze ram from the prow of a Carthaginian warship. Found off the Aegadian Islands (near Sicily) and dating to the First Punic War (264 and 241 BCE). A Punic inscription dedicates the ram to the Phoenician and Punic god Baal.

A stone anchor from a Greek sailing vessel, Piraeus. (Archaeological Museum, Piraeus)

Drawing by Faucher-Gudin depicting Philistines at war. Based on a photograph by Beato. From History of Egypt Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, VI.C by G. Maspero. Published in London, 1903-1904.

The USS Alfred of the Continental Navy raises the Grand Union Flag for the first time in December 1775, oil on canvas painting by W. Nowland Van Powell, 1776. U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

The Mary Rose was a carrack warship built for the Royal Navy of Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547). The ship infamously sank in the Solent off the south coast of England on 19 July 1545, probably because water entered its open gun ports...

Blackbeard's infamous ship the Queen Anne's Revenge wasn't originally built to be a warship, but the notorious pirate refitted the ship, adding twenty-four canons to its armament. From: THE REAL STORY: Pirates of the Caribbean http://bit.ly/WLzgq2...