Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Clipper Ship Flying Cloud off the Needles, Isle of Wight, off the southern English coast. Painting by James E. Buttersworth. The Maritime history of Europe represents the era of recorded human interaction with the sea in the northwestern region of Eurasia in areas that include shipping and shipbuilding, shipwrecks, naval battles, and military installations and lighthouses constructed to ...
A popular design of European origin is the carrack, which utilized caravel construction techniques, allowing ships to increase in size dramatically, far past that which was capable with clinker building techniques. [4] Seen throughout the 14th and 15th century, these ships were used for trade between European powers and their foreign markets.
BAE Systems Maritime - Naval Ships (2008–present) [34] Isle of Wight. East Cowes. J Samuel White (1700s–1963) Wight Shipyard; Kent. Northfleet Shipyard (1788–1816) London. Chiswick: Thornycroft (1866–1908) Leamouth: Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company (1837–1912) Rotherhithe: The Pageants (1700s) [38] London and Glasgow ...
The ships of the Age of Discovery post-dated the fusion of the northern European [a] and Mediterranean ship-building traditions. Prior to the late 13th/early 14th centuries, northern European ships were typically clinker built , [ b ] with a single mast setting a square sail and a centre-line rudder hung on the sternpost with pintles and gudgeons .
These ships used two types of sail of their invention, the junk sail and tanja sail. Large ships are about 50–60 metres (164–197 ft) long, had 5.2–7.8 metres (17–26 ft) tall freeboard, [35] each carrying provisions enough for a year, [36]: 464 and could carry 200–1000 people. The Chinese recorded that these Southeast Asian ships were ...
Pages in category "Ships built in Switzerland" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Stadt Zürich (ship, 1909) This page was last ...
The Battle of Scheveningen, 10 August 1653, painted by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten A ship of war, Cyclopaedia 1728, Vol 2. The Age of Sail is a period in European history that lasted at the latest from the mid-16th (or mid-15th) [1] to the mid-19th centuries, in which the dominance of sailing ships in global trade and warfare culminated, particularly marked by the introduction of naval ...
Switzerland signed a free-trade agreement with the European Economic Community in 1972 and has participated in the process of European integration by way of bilateral treaties, but it has notably resisted accession to the European Union (EU) even though its territory almost completely (except for the microstate Liechtenstein) has been ...