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104-foot Air Rescue Boat, 1943. Even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Stephens Bros. was building vessels for the U.S. government. The Navy’s Bureau of Ships and the U.S Coast Guard contracted the company to build wooden minesweepers that were used to remove magnetic mines or to protect slower ships from submarine torpedo attacks. At 136 ...
3-mast staysail wooden schooner; originally Vira. Largest Wooden hulled sailing yacht. [1] Lamima: 65.20 m (214 ft) Italthai Industrial Group: Marcelo Penna: 2014: 2-mast auxiliary gaff wooden pinisi, hull built in Indonesia Aquarius II: 65.00 m (213 ft) Royal Huisman: Dykstra Naval Architects: 2024: 2-mast (ketch rig) aluminium Adix: 64.85 m ...
In late 1964 Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co. at Peshtigo, Wisconsin subcontracted with Crownline, Inc. of Cairo, Illinois to have the latter make fiberglass boats for them. This was a low-cost means for Thompson to get an abbreviated line of fiberglass boats to supplement their wooden boat line.
Crosby Boat Yard: Massachusetts: Provincetown: Whydah Museum: Massachusetts: Quincy: United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum: Massachusetts: Salem: Peabody Essex Museum: Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine: Y Massachusetts: Salem: Salem Maritime National Historic Site: Y Massachusetts: Scituate: Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum ...
Langbourne's yard built the Diligence which was bought by the Admiralty in 1775 and renamed HMS Discovery. She sailed as part of Cook's last expedition to the Pacific. [101] Parkol Marine: 1980–present East side of the Esk, near Spital Bridge Originally started out as an engineering yard for ship repairs. Ventured into boat building in the ...
The yard exists to allow square sails to be set to drive the ship. The top edge of the sail is 'bent on' (attached) to the yard semi-permanently. Clewlines and buntlines are led along the yard and from there to the mast and down to the deck. These allow the bottom of the sail to be hoisted up to the yard, so the sail is effectively folded in two.
Athena is the winner of the Show Boats International Award for Best Sailing Yacht over 40 Meters for 2004. [ 2 ] A book titled “Athena – A Classic Schooner For Modern Times” (photography by Louie Psihoyos, writer Jack Somer) describes the history, the construction and the life of this vessel.
The first were sail powered only; later units were converted to steam, and the last one was built with an engine. 62.2 m (204.0 ft) 13.3 m USS Constitution: 1797– still in commission, but not for active service The second-oldest commissioned warship (after the Royal Navy's HMS Victory) in the world and the oldest wooden ship still sailing. 62 m