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2. USS Pennsylvania (1837) - Wikipedia

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   She was the largest United States sailing warship ever built, the equivalent of a first-rate of the British Royal Navy. Authorized in 1816 and launched in 1837, her only cruise was a single trip from Delaware Bay through Chesapeake Bay to the Norfolk Navy Yard. The ship became a receiving ship, and during the American Civil War was destroyed.

3. List of large sailing vessels - Wikipedia

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   Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships.

4. List of longest naval ships - Wikipedia

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   Ships in class Type Length Displacement Status Operator USS Enterprise: 1: Aircraft carrier: 342 m (1,122 ft) 94,781: 1 decommissioned United States Navy: Gerald R. Ford class: 1: Aircraft carrier: 337 m (1,106 ft) 100,000: 1 in service, 3 under construction, 10 planned United States Navy: Nimitz class: 10: Aircraft carrier: 332.80 m (1,091.9 ...

5. List of longest ships - Wikipedia

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   Originally smaller, jumboisation made Seawise Giant the largest ship ever by length, displacement (657,019 tonnes), and deadweight tonnage. [2] Batillus class (4 ships) 414.22 m (1,359 ft) 553,661–555,051 DWT: 274,837–275,276 GT: 1976–2003 Broken up The largest and longest ships ever to be laid down per original plans.

6. Tessarakonteres - Wikipedia

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   Tessarakonteres (Greek: τεσσαρακοντήρης, "forty-rowed"), or simply "forty", was a very large catamaran galley reportedly built in the Hellenistic period by Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt.

7. Ship of the line - Wikipedia

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   The second largest sailing three-decker ship of the line ever built in the West and the biggest French ship of the line was the Valmy, launched in 1847. She had vertical sides, which increased significantly the space available for upper batteries, but reduced the stability of the ship; wooden stabilisers were added under the waterline to ...

8. Thomas W. Lawson (ship) - Wikipedia

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   She was the only seven-masted schooner, the only seven-masted sailing ship in modern times (see Zheng He's treasure ships), the largest schooner, and the largest pure sailing vessel, in terms of tonnage, ever built. Larger sailing vessels with auxiliary engines for propulsion were the British Great Eastern (1866), the French France II (1911 ...

9. Ottoman ship Mahmudiye - Wikipedia

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   It was a three-masted three-decked 128-gunned sailing ship, which could perhaps be considered to be one of the few completed heavy first-rate battleships in the world. [2] Mahmudiye , with a roaring lion as the ship's figurehead , was intended to serve to reconstitute the morale of the nation after the loss of the fleet at the Battle of ...