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  2. Wooden Ships - Wikipedia

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    "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 ...

  3. HMS Orlando (1858) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Belyana - Wikipedia

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    Belyanas were among the largest wooden ships ever built, with the largest ones being up to 120 metres (390 ft) long with a load capacity up to 12,800 tons. Belyanas were built in the Upper Volga region of Russia without any special tools or plans. Never motorized, after 1870 they also had no sails and could only float downriver, using ...

  5. Great Republic (1853 clipper) - Wikipedia

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    Great Republic was the largest, but not the longest wooden sailing ship ever built. Despite her 400 ft length overall, the record of being the longest wooden ship is held by the six-masted schooner Wyoming built at the Percy & Small shipyard, Bath, Maine, in 1909. Her overall length including her 86 ft (26 m)-long jibboom and her protruding ...

  6. Wooden Ships and Iron Men (1996 video game) - Wikipedia

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    Wooden Ships and Iron Men was a finalist for Computer Gaming World ' s 1996 "Wargame of the Year" award, [6] which ultimately went to Battleground 4: Shiloh. [7] The magazine's wargame columnist Terry Coleman gave it his 1996 "Most Pleasant Surprise" award, and dubbed it "easily the best game ever on the Age of Sail".

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  8. William H. Webb - Wikipedia

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    The lines and sail plan are in the William H. Webb's Plans Of Wooden Ships. [11] Freight rates to the goldfields had by this time skyrocketed to such an extent that a ship could pay for its construction with a single voyage. Challenge, 1851 clipper. Webb's clipper designs "employed the most judicious use of timber of all the major shipbuilders."

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