There are four different classes of vessel – destroyers, cruisers, battleships and aircraft carriers – all with their own unique playing style.
There are currently over 80 classes of vessel to choose from including battle ships, torpedo boats, submarines and aircraft carriers, and three seas to explore: the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean.
The first of a new class of vessels is not expected to go into service until 2028.
New watercraft, he said, can travel at 52 miles an hour, more than twice as fast as the older class of vessels.
The result of their efforts is Far Solitaire (pictured above), the first of a new class of vessels which bristle with novel technology that promises to make shipping safer, cleaner and cheaper.Far Solitaire has been designed as a platform-supply ship for the North Sea's oil and gas industry.
Matthew McCleery, the president of Marine Money, estimates that Fredriksen controls 23% of the modern supertanker spot market (ships over 300,000 tons, loaded) and another 25% of the spot business for Western Hemisphere Suezmax tankers, a slightly smaller class of vessels.
The Astute Class of vessels have greater firepower, state-of-the-art communications equipment and advanced stealth technology, making them quiet and harder to detect, according to the MoD.
There is an ancient class of vessels, found in Roman tombs, called lachrymatories: tiny glass flasks, often shaped like tears, into which mourners are said to have collected the spill of their weeping eyes.
Considered an entirely new class of vessel, it would rely on superconducting machinery for propulsion and power generation.
