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  2. Coastal trading vessel - Wikipedia

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    Coastal merchant vessel. Coastal trading vessels, also known as coasters or skoots, [1] are shallow-hulled [citation needed] merchant ships used for transporting cargo along a coastline. Their shallow hulls mean that they can get through reefs where deeper-hulled seagoing ships usually cannot (26-28 feet), but as a result they are not optimized ...

  3. Bateau - Wikipedia

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    Bateau. A bateau or batteau is a shallow- draft, flat-bottomed boat which was used extensively across North America, especially in the colonial period and in the fur trade. It was traditionally pointed at both ends but came in a wide variety of sizes. The name derives from the French word, bateau, which is simply the word for boat and the ...

  4. List of schooners - Wikipedia

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    National Historic Landmark former oyster boat 2 masted gaff J.R. Tolkien: 1964 Amsterdam: Luxury chartership and naval trainingvessel. Jacob Meindert: 1952 Makkum, Súdwest-Fryslân: 2 masted gaff, square topsail Kajama: 1930 Toronto, Ontario Charter boat, former German coastal trader 3 masted gaff Kathleen and May: 1900 Bideford, Devon

  5. Viking ship - Wikipedia

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    Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, used in Scandinavia from the Viking Age throughout the Middle Ages. The boat-types were quite varied, depending on what the ship was intended for, [1] but they were generally characterized as being slender and flexible boats, with symmetrical ends with true keel.

  6. Merchant ship - Wikipedia

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    Merchant ship. A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft, which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships, which are used for military purposes. They come in myriad sizes and shapes, from six-metre (20 ft ...

  7. Q-ship - Wikipedia

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    The problem was how to lure the U-boat to the surface. A solution to this was the creation of the Q-ship, one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war. Their codename referred to the vessels' home port, Queenstown, in Ireland. These became known by the Germans as a U-Boot-Falle ("U-boat trap"). A Q-ship would appear to be an easy target ...

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