List of Arctic exploration vessels

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This is a list of Arctic exploration vessels:

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Enterprise may refer to:

USS Scorpion may refer to:

Surprise may refer to:

USS Nautilus may refer to:

USS Virginia may refer to:

USS Frolic is a name used more than once by the United States Navy, and may refer to:

Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Scourge:

Arktika 2007

Arktika 2007 was a 2007 expedition in which Russia performed the first ever crewed descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole, as part of research related to the 2001 Russian territorial claim, one of many territorial claims in the Arctic, made possible, in part, because of Arctic shrinkage. As well as dropping a titanium tube containing the Russian flag, the submersibles collected specimens of Arctic flora and fauna and apparently recorded video of the dives. The "North Pole-35" manned drifting ice station was established.

USS Arctic is the name of several ships of the U.S. Navy:

HMS <i>Poictiers</i> (1809) Vengeur-class ship of the line

HMS Poictiers was a 74-gun Royal Navy third rate. This ship of the line was launched on 9 December 1809 at Upnor. During the War of 1812 she was part of blockade of the United States. She was broken up in 1857.

Vladimir Wiese

Vladimir Yulyevich Wiese was a Russian scientist of German descent who devoted his life to the study of the Arctic ice pack. His name is associated with the Scientific Prediction of Ice Conditions theory. Wiese was a member of the Soviet Arctic Institute and an authority on polar oceanography. He was also the founder of the Geographico-hydrological School of Oceanography.

Steamer Tovarishch Stalin was a Soviet freighter of about 3,100 tonnes displacement, active in the Arctic during the 1930s.

Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alert, while another was planned:

HMS Pictou was the American letter of marque schooner Zebra that the Royal Navy captured in 1813. The Admiralty purchased her in 1814 and she served on the North America station during the War of 1812 before the navy sold her in 1818.

<i>Ardjoeno</i>-class sloop Dutch class of steam corvettes

The Ardjoeno class was a ship class of paddle-steamers of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The class comprised Ardjoeno, Gedeh (1850), Amsterdam and Gedeh (1874).

William H. Brown was a 19th-century American shipbuilder. He was well known for building fast and seaworthy yachts, paddle steamers and steamboats. He was one of the first shipbuilders in the country and had his business for more than thirty years having built over 300 vessels. He built the yacht America, which was the first winner of the America's Cup; the paddle steamer SS Arctic; and the sidewheel steamer Pacific, as well as other fine ships.