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To cut off the wind from a sailing vessel, either by the proximity of land or by another vessel. becalmed Unable to move due to a lack of wind, said of a sailing vessel; resigned merely to drift with the current rather to move by controlled management of sails. becket A short piece of line usually spliced into a circle or with an eye on either end.
After the vessel turns pinkish hot, virgin grade tin (in the form of strips) is applied on the hot vessel. This step is called ‘casting’ by the Kalaigars. The ‘nausadar’ powder is sprinkled on the vessel. The tin melts rapidly which is then rubbed evenly on the utensil with the help of a cotton cloth or a swab of cotton.
Sovereign of the Seas, 1637, by J Payne. During the transition from galleons to more frigate-like warships (1600 – 1650) there was a general awareness that the reduction in topweight afforded by the removal of upperworks made ships better sailers; Rear Admiral Sir William Symonds noted after the launch of Sovereign of the Seas that she was "cut down" and made a safe and fast ship.
A gaff cutter, Kleine Freiheit, with a genoa jib set USCGC Legare, an example of a US Coast Guard cutter A cutter is any of various types of watercraft.The term can refer to the rig (sail plan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental enforcement agency vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used ...
General cargo ships include "multi-purpose and project vessels and roll-on/roll-off cargo". [ 61 ] Modern commercial vessels are typically powered by a single propeller driven by a diesel or, less usually, gas turbine engine ., [ 78 ] but until the mid-19th century they were predominantly square sail rigged.
Hogging is the stress a ship's hull or keel experiences that causes the center or the keel to bend upward. Sagging is the stress a ship's hull or keel is placed under when a wave is the same length as the ship and the ship is in the trough of two waves.
Early trading vessels were often cooperative efforts where the crew, or some members, contributed to the initial costs of ship, cargo and operations; and payment was in shares at the end of the voyage. Thus all members of a crew were considered participants in the enterprise, even if they only contributed labour. [10]
Cut and run or cut-and-run is an idiomatic verb phrase meaning to "make off promptly" or to "hurry off". The phrase was in use by the 1700s to describe an act allowing a ship to make sail quickly in an urgent situation, by cutting free an anchor.