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  2. List of maritime museums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    List of maritime museums in the United States is a sortable list of American museums which display objects related to ships and water travel. Many of these maritime museums have museum ships in their collections.

  3. List of clipper ships - Wikipedia

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    White Squall was an 1100-ton fast clipper sailing in the China trade; she was the last command of captain Benoni Lockwood III and burned in a fire in New York Harbor after only 2 years of service. [4]: 255 [14] Witch of the Wave: 1851 United States (Portsmouth, NH) Broken up in 1886 220 ft (67 m)

  4. List of large sailing yachts - Wikipedia

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    3-mast staysail wooden schooner; originally Vira. Largest Wooden hulled sailing yacht. [1] Lamima: 65.20 m (214 ft) Italthai Industrial Group: Marcelo Penna: 2014: 2-mast auxiliary gaff wooden pinisi, hull built in Indonesia Aquarius II: 65.00 m (213 ft) Royal Huisman: Dykstra Naval Architects: 2024: 2-mast (ketch rig) aluminium Adix: 64.85 m ...

  5. List of longest wooden ships - Wikipedia

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    The first were sail powered only; later units were converted to steam, and the last one was built with an engine. 62.2 m (204.0 ft) 13.3 m USS Constitution: 1797– still in commission, but not for active service The second-oldest commissioned warship (after the Royal Navy's HMS Victory) in the world and the oldest wooden ship still sailing. 62 m

  6. Yard (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    The yard exists to allow square sails to be set to drive the ship. The top edge of the sail is 'bent on' (attached) to the yard semi-permanently. Clewlines and buntlines are led along the yard and from there to the mast and down to the deck. These allow the bottom of the sail to be hoisted up to the yard, so the sail is effectively folded in two.

  7. Thompson Brothers Boat Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Thompson Hiawatha model canoe. The Thompson Brothers Boat Manufacturing Company of Peshtigo, Wisconsin was a manufacturer of pleasure boats and canoes.Founded by brothers Peter and Christ Thompson in 1904, [1] the company became prominent in the field and built boats for nearly one hundred years. [2]

  8. St. Louis to host U.S. Figure Skating championships before ...

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    The final U.S. Figure Skating Championships before the 2026 Milan Olympics will take place in St. Louis. U.S. Figure Skating announced Monday the 2026 nationals would be Jan. 5-11 at the ...

  9. Union Iron Works (St. Louis) - Wikipedia

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    The yard employed 800 artisans, laborers and shipwrights. [1] In 1861, riverboat salvager and engineer James Eads leased the yard and used it to build ironclads for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. In 1869 and 1870, facilities of the Union Iron Works were used by William Nelson and Co. to fabricate the caissons used to build Eads ...

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