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A cargo vessel used for trade between Eastern India and Indochina. Brig. A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. Brigantine. A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the main. Caravel. (Portuguese) A much smaller, two, sometimes three-masted ship. Carrack.
Beam (nautical) Graphical representation of the dimensions used to describe a ship. Dimension "b" is the beam at waterline. The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point. The maximum beam (B MAX) is the distance between planes passing through the outer sides of the ship, beam of the hull (B H) only includes permanently fixed parts of the ...
Aviation facilities. 2 helipads, UAV capable. Sea Fighter (FSF-1) is an experimental littoral combat ship in service with the United States Navy. Its hull is of a small-waterplane-area twin-hull (SWATH) design, provides exceptional stability, even on rough seas. The ship can operate in both blue and littoral waters.
The boat gradually swung clear and was dislodged after much manual exertion. [2] This event, along with the Offutt's boat/milldam incident, prompted Lincoln to start thinking about how to lift vessels over river obstructions and shoals. [4] [5] He eventually came up with an invention to achieve this, which involved flotation bladders. [6]
1. The underside of a vessel; the portion of a vessel that is always underwater. 2. A ship, most often a cargo ship. 3. A cargo hold. bottomry Pledging a ship as security in a financial transaction. bow 1. The front of a vessel. 2. Either side of the front (or bow) of the vessel, i.e. the port bow and starboard bow. Something ahead and to the ...
Sheer (ship) View of a corridor on the RMS Queen Mary, visibly showing the sheer. Notice the upward curve as the corridor goes on. The sheer is a measure of longitudinal main deck curvature in naval architecture. The sheer forward is usually twice that aft. Increases in the rise of the sheer forward and aft build volume into the hull, and in ...
This is a list of boat types. ... Top of page. B. Banana boat (merchant) ... This page was last edited on 8 July 2024, at 19:23 ...
In the age of sail, a ship carried a variety of boats of various sizes and for different purposes.In the navies they were: (1) the launch, or long-boat, the largest of all rowboats on board, which was of full, flat, and high built; (2) the barge, the next in size, which was employed for carrying commanding officers, with ten or twelve oars (3) the pinnace, which was used for transporting ...