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  2. Ship's wheel - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the steering gear of an 18th- to 19th-century sailing ship [3]: 151 Helm of TS Golden Bear. A ship's wheel is composed of eight cylindrical wooden spokes (though sometimes as few as six or as many as ten or twelve depending on the wheel's size and how much force is needed to turn it.) shaped like balusters and all joined at a central wooden hub or nave (sometimes covered with a ...

  3. List of fictional ships - Wikipedia

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    The ship's captain, Captain Black, has a submarine in Pemberton's 1911 sequel. USS James T Doig – destroyer, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971; Janet Coombe – from the novel The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier, 1931; Jolly Roger – Captain Hook's pirate ship, Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, 1904

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  5. Whipstaff - Wikipedia

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    Its development preceded the invention of the more complex ship's wheel and followed the simple use of a tiller to control the steering of a ship underway. [1] In a typical arrangement, an iron gooseneck was fitted at the fore end of the tiller. Then, a metal ring was fitted over this and secured with a pin.

  6. Pequod (Moby-Dick) - Wikipedia

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    Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville. Pequod and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the story, which, after the initial chapters, takes place almost entirely aboard the ship during a three-year whaling expedition in the Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific oceans.

  7. List of fictional spacecraft - Wikipedia

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    Dark Aster, the ship of Ronan the Accuser in Guardians of the Galaxy; Milano, the ship of Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Replaced by a similar ship, the Benatar in Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame; Sanctuary II, the ship of Thanos in Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers ...

  8. La Grace - Wikipedia

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    La Grace is a replica of a brig from the 18th century. The original ship of Augustine Herman (Augustin Heřman in Czech) bore this name (which roughly translates as “Graceful”) during merchant and exploratory travels around Europe, United States, Caribbean and across the Atlantic Ocean.

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