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Weeks 533 is a 500-short-ton (454 t) capacity Clyde Iron Works model 52 barge-mounted crane which is the largest revolving floating crane on the East Coast of the United States. [1] It was originally ordered for bridge construction and has since been used in several notable heavy lifts.
Modeled after schooner Wanderer (1858); privately owned; commercial charters; sail training vessel; 100 ton captain training. 2 masted gaff; topsail schooner [20] Black Douglas: 1930 Morocco: Privately owned; former school ship 3 masted Marconi/staysail schooner Bluenose II: 1963 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia: Replica of racing/fishing schooner Bluenose
Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships. It is sorted by overall length.
A brig's square-rig also had the advantage over a fore-and-aft–rigged vessel when travelling offshore, in the trade winds, where vessels sailed down wind for extended distances and where "the danger of a sudden jibe was the large schooner-captain's nightmare". [13] This trait later led to the evolution of the barquentine. The need for large ...
The 1536 rebuilding turned a ship of 500 tons into one of 700 tons, and added an entire extra tier of broadside guns to the old carrack-style structure. By consequence, modern research is based mostly on interpretations of the concrete physical evidence of this version of the Mary Rose. The construction of the original design from 1509 is less ...
The USS Enterprise was a schooner, built by Henry Spencer at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1799 for the United States Navy.Her first commander thought that she was too lightly built and that her quarters, in particular, should be bulletproofed.
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A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. 1618–1620 A Spanish galleon Carracks, galleon (center/right), square rigged caravel (below), galley and fusta (galliot) depicted by D. João de Castro on the "Suez Expedition" (part of the Portuguese Armada of 72 ships sent against the Ottoman fleet anchor in Suez, Egypt, in response to its entry in ...