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The six-masted schooner Wyoming, the longest confirmed wooden ship in history. The side-wheel paddle steamer ferryboat Eureka, now a museum ship, is the longest wooden ship still afloat. This is a list of the world's longest wooden ships. The vessels are sorted by ship length including bowsprit, if known.
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; ... Pages in category "17th-century ships" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Although primarily sailing vessels, many pinnaces carried sweeps for moving in calms or around harbors. [3] The rigs of pinnaces included the single-masted fore-and-aft rig with staysail and sprit mainsail to the mizzenmast, and a square sprit-sail under the bowsprit. Open square-sterned pulling boats were also called pinnaces at least as early ...
A large, heavily built, sixteenth-century boat which is fore-and-aft rigged; more recently a poetically frail open boat Ship or full-rigged ship Historically a sailing vessel with three or more full-rigged masts. "Ship" is now used for any large watercraft Ship of the line [of battle] A sailing warship generally of first, second or third rate ...
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.
Bermuda sloops at anchor and under sail. The Bermuda sloop is a historical type of fore-and-aft rigged single-masted sailing vessel developed on the islands of Bermuda in the 17th century. Such vessels originally had gaff rigs with quadrilateral sails, but evolved to use the Bermuda rig with triangular sails.
The Mauritius was an early 17th century Dutch wooden-hulled sailing ship, documented as being in service to the Dutch East India Company between 1618 and 1622. [ 2 ] History
A replica of the 15th-century caravel Lisa von Lübeck.. A ship replica is a reconstruction of a no longer existing ship.Replicas can range from authentically reconstructed, fully seaworthy ships, to ships of modern construction that give an impression of a historic vessel.