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2. Columbia Rediviva - Wikipedia

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   Drawing by George Davidson in 1793, who served as the ship's artist. 83 ft 6 in (25.45 m) on deck. 10 cannons, 2 heavy stern chaser guns, 4 heavy and 4 lighter broadside guns. Columbia Rediviva (commonly known as Columbia) was a privately owned American ship under the command, first, of John Kendrick, and later Captain Robert Gray, best known ...

3. Marine art - Wikipedia

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   Marine art. Rembrandt 's stolen masterpiece, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633). Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong ...

4. The Fighting Temeraire - Wikipedia

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   1839. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 90.7 cm × 121.6 cm (35.7 in × 47.9 in) Location. National Gallery, London. The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839.

5. British Marine Art (Romantic Era) - Wikipedia

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   Ship portraits, as mentioned above, were immensely popular before and throughout the Romantic era. Ship portraits were, as apparent by the name, focused entirely on the ship, rather than on the surrounding sea, although the best-known of the ship portraitists strove to carry the accuracy of their drawing out into the atmosphere surrounding the ...

6. Full-rigged ship - Wikipedia

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   A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. [1] Such a vessel is said to have a ship rig or be ship-rigged, with each mast stepped in three segments: lower, top, and topgallant. [2][3][4] Other large, multi-masted sailing vessels may be regarded as "ships" while ...

7. Wawona (schooner) - Wikipedia

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   Designated SEATL. 14 March 1977 [2] Wawona was an American three-masted, fore-and-aft schooner that sailed from 1897 to 1947 as a lumber carrier and fishing vessel based in Puget Sound. She was one of the last survivors of the sailing schooners in the West Coast lumber trade to San Francisco from Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.

8. Birlinn - Wikipedia

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   The birlinn (Scottish Gaelic: bìrlinn) or West Highland galley was a wooden vessel propelled by sail and oar, used extensively in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland from the Middle Ages on. Variants of the name in English and Lowland Scots include "berlin" and "birling". The Gaelic term may derive from the Norse byrðingr (ship of ...

9. Pride of Baltimore - Wikipedia

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   Pride II also carries a very unusual sail known as a ring-tail, set like a studding sail off the main boom and main gaff. Over two decades later in its storied career, on 5 September 2005, the Pride of Baltimore II suffered a complete dismasting while sailing in a squall in the Bay of Biscay off the western coast of France. The ship returned to ...