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Greek-Ottoman xebec. These ships were easy to produce and were cheap, and thus nearly every corsair captain had at least one xebec in his fleet. They could be of varying sizes. Some ships had only three guns [4] while others had up to forty. [5] Most xebecs had around 20–30 cannons, and the overwhelming majority had swivel guns equipped. [6] [7]
An ancient warship propelled by three banks of oars per side Troopship A ship used for transporting troops. Large ocean liners, fast enough to outrun warships, were often used for this purpose during wartime Victory ship Mass-produced cargo ship of the Second World War as a successor to the Liberty ship Xebec
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
Singe was a Renard-class xebec of the French Navy, launched in 1762. She served in the Mediterranean against the Barbary pirates , and is notable for a number of important officers who served aboard, notably Flotte , Raimondis and Suffren .
El Gamo was a 32-gun xebec-frigate of the Spanish Navy captured by the Royal Navy sloop-of-war HMS Speedy in the action of 6 May 1801.The engagement was notable for the large disparity between the size and firepower of El Gamo and Speedy; the former was around four times the size, had much greater firepower and a crew six times the size of Speedy, which had a reduced crew of 54 at the time. [1]
Using a supply list from an ancient clay tablet, experts have reconstructed a large Bronze Age ship from 4,000 years ago and sailed it around the Persian Gulf.
Xebec; C. USS Champion (1777) E. ... French ship Révolutionnaire (1793) This page was last edited on 17 August 2020, at 00:04 (UTC). Text is available under ...
A company drilling for natural gas off the coast of northern Israel discovered a 3,300-year-old ship and its cargo, one of the oldest known examples of a ship sailing far from land, the Israel ...
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