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Age of Sail is a period that lasted at the latest from the mid-16th (or mid-15th) to the mid-19th centuries, in which the dominance of sailing ships in...

propel sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged ship, said to...

Iron-hulled sailing ships represented the final evolution of sailing ships at the end of the age of sail. They were built to carry bulk cargo for long...

Gold Rush of the 1850s. British-built clipper ships and many American-built, British-owned ships were used. Even in the 1880s, sailing ships were still...

Iron-hulled sailing ships, which eventually gave way to steamships. In the late 20th century, ships based on the 19th century designs of historical ships began...

barge) (APL). Barrack ships were common during the era of sailing ships when shore facilities were scarce or non-existent. Barrack ships were usually hulks...

their compact size and their non-reversibility. In the era of sailing ships, the introduction of a worm drive to control the rudder was a significant advance...

The Tall Ships Races are races for sail training "tall ships" (sailing ships). The races are designed to encourage international friendship and training...

Century and SkySea Golden Era, was the lead ship of the Century class of cruise ships for Celebrity Cruises, and the co-flagship of the Celebrity fleet, along...

the era of sailing ships, but also included extensive use of combat engineering in support of the infantry. One of the most extensive and complex of expeditionary...

the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line. Originating...

“Inventing the ship” published in 1935. The name of the “effect” is due to the reference to advances made in sailing ships in the second half of the 1800s...

List of sailing ships of the Ottoman Empire List of battleships of the Ottoman Empire Peru: List of Peruvian Navy ships Portugal: List of ships of the...

the era of sailing ships. It also included extensive use of combat engineering in support of the infantry. One of the most extensive and complex of combined...

Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man as the full-rigged ship Euterpe. After a career sailing from Great...

In sailing vessels, the head is the ship's toilet. The name derives from sailing ships in which the toilet area for the regular sailors was placed at...

A spar is a pole of wood, metal or lightweight materials such as carbon fibre used in the rigging of a sailing vessel to carry or support its sail. These...

or signal lamp. Large ships have several masts, with the size and configuration depending on the style of ship. Nearly all sailing masts are guyed. Until...

beginning during a single sailing season (September to April) and augmented the voyages of "regular ships", which were merchant ships under long-term charter...

specifically a ship-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts, each of which is square-rigged. As of 2016, there were more than 49,000 merchant ships, totaling...