Draft:Claymore (ship)

Claymore is a ship name of several vessels. It is named for the Claymore sword, a Scottish sword, traditionally a Medieval cross-hilted greatsword, though also referring to Renaissance basket-hilted broadsword.

Vehicles
Watercraft named Claymore include:
 * Claymore, a steam yacht
 * RYS Claymore, a 130-ton wooden schooner, a Royal Yacht Squadron sailing yacht that participated in the Crimean War
 * Claymore (1858), a sailing ship, a wooden barque, in-service 1858-1892
 * SS Claymore, an iron steamer British Royal Mail ship in-service 1881-1931, also called "R.M.S. Claymore"
 * SS Claymore, a coastal screw steamer later converted into a salvage ship, that salvaged the RMS Niagara
 * FRENCH DESTROYER Claymore, a pre-WWI French Navy Claymore-class destroyer
 * HMS Claymore, a WWII British Royal Navy Weapon-class destroyer
 * SS Empire Claymore, the British WWII Empire ship 'Claymore'
 * MV Claymore, a mid-20th-century British Royal Mail mail boat in the Scottish Isles, also known as "R.M.S. Claymore"
 * MV Claymore, a late-20th-century/early-21st-century ferry to the Scottish Isles
 * MV Claymore, a mid-21st-century RO/RO-ferry for Scotland
 * SV Claymore, a sailing vessel,
 * FV Claymore, a fishing vessel,

Classes
Classes of watercraft named Claymore include:
 * Claymore-class destroyer, a turn-of-the-century French Navy shipclass

Related ships

 * MV Claymore II, a passenger-cargo ship
 * RV Claymore II, a research ship