Featured pictures are the best images on Wikipedia, designated as such by the community in accordance with the featured picture criteria. Images can be nominated for consideration at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Following is a gallery of featured pictures related to ships.

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  USS Texas (1892)
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  Design for the Lexington class battlecruiser, 1919 after revision from original draft design and before conversion to fleet carrier use.
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  Tall ship Irving Johnson aground near the Channel Islands, March 2005
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  Full rigged ship Royal Clipper near Pula
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  Scan from submarine design by Robert Fulton in pencil, ink, and watercolor, 1806
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  USS Benfold firing a 5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun
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  An LCVP disembarks troops at Omaha Beach on D-Day
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  US Navy airship Akron flying over Manhattan, c. 1932
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  Daguerrotype of steamship Ben Campbell
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  Lowering of the flag on the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku
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  Douglas MacArthur accepting the Japanese surrender ending WWII, aboard USS Missouri
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  Wreck of the American Star, launched in 1939 as SS America
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  A tugboat in New York Harbor
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  Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the Normandy invasion beaches
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  USS Shaw exploding at Pearl Harbor
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  USS Bunker Hill hit by kamikazes during the Battle of Okinawa
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  USS Pennsylvania entering Lingayen Gulf
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  USS Franklin under attack during World War II
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  USS Niagara raised for the centennial of the Battle of Lake Erie
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  Tugboat diagram
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  Animated naval gun turret, based on a British 15 inch turret Mark 1
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  Diagram of a warship from the 1728 Cyclopaedia
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  Iowa-class battleship main battery turret
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  Binoculars on the signal bridge of the USS Harry S. Truman
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  Winch parts on the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm
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  USS Iowa firing a full broadside
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  MS Majesty of the Seas anchored off Coco Cay
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  SMS Moltke (1910)
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  USS New Jersey, 1918
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  Sydney Ferry Collaroy en route from Circular Quay to Manly ferry terminal in Sydney, Australia.
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  Vertical replenishment
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  Special Purpose Insertion Extraction training
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  USS Oregon (BB-3) in dry dock, September 1898
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  The Battle of Terheide, 10 August 1653: episode from the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-54)