List of ships named Yamato

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Several ships have been named {{Nihongo|Yamato|大和 / ヤマト}}:

• {{ship|Japanese corvette|Yamato}}, corvette of the {{sclass|Katsuragi|corvette|1}}, launched in 1885 and used as a prison from 1935. Sunk by a typhoon in 1945.
• {{sclass|Yamato|battleship|1}}, a class of 2 Japanese battleships and an aircraft carrier of World War II
• {{ship|Japanese battleship|Yamato}}, lead ship of the Yamato class, named after Yamato Province
• Yamato Maru, originally the {{ship|Italian ship|Giuseppe Verdi}} that was built in 1914 and transported thousands of Italians to Ellis Island; sold to the Japanese in the 1920s and renamed Yamato Maru, sunk by a US submarine in 1943 in the Philippines
• Yamato 1, the first working prototype of a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive in the early 1990s