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1. Any device external to a vessel or aircraft specifically intended to assist navigators in determining their position or safe course, or to warn them of dangers or obstructions to navigation. 2. Any sort of marker that aids a traveler in navigation, especially with regard to nautical or aviation travel.
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.
Strake. A clinker-built Viking longship, whose overlapping planks constitute "strakes". On a vessel's hull, a strake is a longitudinal course of planking or plating which runs from the boat's stempost (at the bows) to the sternpost or transom (at the rear). The garboard strakes are the two immediately adjacent to the keel on each side.
This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships , see: List of sailing boat types This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Ship prefix. A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/nationality. In the modern environment, prefixes are cited inconsistently in civilian ...
Here you'll find classic and classy boat names of the more serious sort (like the "Honey Fitz" yacht that once belonged to JFK and Jackie O.), as well as funny boat names that your fellow captains ...
Hawaiian Chieftain is the name of a sailing vessel briefly known as the Spirit of Larinda. Built in 1988 in Lahaina on the island of Maui, the Hawaiian Chieftain is a contemporary interpretation of a traditional design. She is unique with the rig of a 19th-century trading vessel and a modern triple keel, shallow draft hull. Drawing only 5.5 ...
Today's Wordle Answer for #1227 on Monday, October 28, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Monday, October 28, 2024, is BAWDY. How'd you do?