Starfleet Starship Classes by type
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Facts
- Dates reflect active service
Combatants
Cruiser
- Multipurpose vessel
- Light Cruiser
- Medium Cruiser
- Daedalus: 2161 - 2196 (ceased production 2160)
- Ceres: 2163 - 2165 -
- Baton Rouge: 2225 - 2300 (ceased production 2260)
- Constellation: 2275 - 2375 (ceased production 2340)
- Renaissance: 2331 - 2380 (ceased production 2337)
- Shelley: 2345 - 2375 (ceased production 2348)
- Korolev: - 2363 - 2369 -
- Centaur: 2369 - 2381 -
- Norway: 2371 - Present
- Heavy Cruiser
- Kumari: 2161 - 2165 -
- Columbia: 2161 - 2166 -
- Ranger: 2215 - 2300 (ceased production 2240)
- Pyotr Velikiy: 2241 - 2312 (ceased production 2248)
- Constitution: 2242 - 2337 (ceased production 2268)
- Federation: 2269 - 2290 (ceased production 2272)
- Excelsior: 2285 - Present
- Ambassador: 2322 - 2379 (ceased production 2370)
- Niagara: 2349 - Present
- Akira: 2368 - Present
- Sovereign: 2370 - Present
- Prometheus: 2374 - Present
Courier
- Smaller, high-speed vessels meant for supply runs, quick transport, diplomatic ferrying, etc.
Escort
- Also known as destroyer
- Small combat-focused vessel used to protect larger, less-armed ships
Explorer
- Vessel devoted to long-term exploration missions far from Federation core territory, without access to starbase support
Frigate
- Maneuverable, medium-sized vessel intended to protect larger vessels
- Ganges: 2161 -
- Icarus: - 2242 -
- Miranda: - 2242 - 2379 -
- Locknar: - 2267 -
- New Orleans: 2332 - 2375
- Springfield: 2356 - Present (ceased production 2375)
- Challenger: 2360 - Present
- Chimera: 2366 - Present
- Steamrunner: 2369 - Present
Strike Fighter
- Very small, quick, heavily-armed vessel meant for use in large groups, often held in larger carriers
Noncombatants
Hospital ship
- Medical support vessel; combat support, planetary medical disaster, etc.
Repair ship
- Industrial vessel devoted to on-site maintenance, offering facilities normally available only at starbases
- Mulciber: 2380 - Present
Runabout
- Warp-capable utility vessel intended as auxiliary craft with more adaptability, functionality than shuttlecraft
- Danube: 2368 - Present
- Yellowstone: In development
Survey
- Also known as science vessels, scouts
- Vessels meant for short-term analysis and observation, often intelligence-gathering or scientific study
- Discovery: 2161 -
- Ganges: 2165 -
- Hermes: 2242 - 2270 -
- Oberth: 2250 - 2375 (ceased production 2360)
- Titania: - 2262 - 2270 -
- Centaurus: - 2262 - 2268 -
- Archer: - 2265 - 2269 -
- Hokule'a: - 2338 - 2374 -
- Paladin: 2345 - Present
- Rigel: 2357 - Present
- Freedom: 2365 - 2380 (ceased production 2367)
- Nova: 2368 - Present
- Talon: 2373 - Present
Transport
- Personnel and cargo carriers
- Whorfin: 2222 - 2285 (ceased production 2242)
- Ptolemy: - 2265 - 2293 -
- Antares: - 2266 - 2270 -
- Sydney: - 2293 - Present
- Surak: 2321 - Present (ceased production 2326)
- Mediterranean: - 2350 - 2375 -
- Istanbul: - 2365 - 2376 -
- Bradbury: 2366 - Present
- Theophrastus: 2377 - Present