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An 80-gun ship of the line active in the American and French revolutionary wars. Sunk during a storm along with most of her crew. 60.22 m (197 ft 7 in) 16.10 m (52 ft 10 in) HMS Princess Charlotte HMS Royal Adelaide: 1825–? 1828–? (respectively) unknown Twin 104-gun ships of the line, with a design inspired on HMS Victory. Their fate after ...
Broadside of a French 74-gun ship of the line. A broadside is the side of a ship, or more specifically the battery of cannon on one side of a warship or their coordinated fire in naval warfare, or a measurement of a warship's maximum simultaneous firepower which can be delivered upon a single target (because this concentration is usually obtained by firing a broadside).
In short, the construction and use histories of these ships indicated that they were already pushing or had exceeded the practical limits for the size of wooden ships. [1] Britain had built two long frigates in 1858 – HMS Mersey and HMS Orlando – the longest, largest and most powerful single-decked wooden fighting ships. Over 335 feet long ...
"Wooden Ships" is a song written and composed by David Crosby, Paul Kantner, and Stephen Stills and recorded both by Crosby, Stills & Nash and by Kantner with Jefferson Airplane. It was written and composed in 1968 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida , on a boat named Mayan , owned by Crosby, who composed the music, while Kantner and Stills wrote most ...
The Confederacy, in desperate need of ships, raised Merrimack and rebuilt her as an ironclad ram, according to a design prepared by Lt. John Mercer Brooke, CSN. Commissioned as CSS Virginia 17 February 1862, the ironclad was the hope of the Confederacy to destroy the wooden ships in Hampton Roads , and to end the Union blockade which had ...
The first small vessel that can be considered a steam warship was the Demologos, which was launched in 1815 for the United States Navy. [1] From the early 1820s, the British Navy began building a number of small steam warships including the armed tugs HMS Comet and HMS Monkey, and by the 1830s the navies of America, Russia and France were experimenting with steam-powered warships. [2]
Swedish warships, or ships carrying a military commander, fly the Swedish ensign a triple-tailed or swallowtail and tongue version of the rectangular flag. The Swedish East India Company displayed a fork-tailed or swallow-tailed flag on their ships. The intention was that the ship should resemble a warship and thereby not attract pirates.