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2. Ship's wheel - Wikipedia

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   Diagram of the steering gear of an 18th- to 19th-century sailing ship [3]: 151 Helm of TS Golden Bear. A ship's wheel is composed of eight cylindrical wooden spokes (though sometimes as few as six or as many as ten or twelve depending on the wheel's size and how much force is needed to turn it.) shaped like balusters and all joined at a central wooden hub or nave (sometimes covered with a ...

3. Whipstaff - Wikipedia

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   A whipstaff is a steering device that was used on European sailing ships from the 14th to the 18th century. Its development preceded the invention of the more complex ship's wheel and followed the simple use of a tiller to control the steering of a ship underway. [1] In a typical arrangement, an iron gooseneck was fitted at the fore end of the ...

4. Breadalbane (ship) - Wikipedia

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   The ship was originally used to transport wine, wool and grain to Europe, and spent her first ten years sailing between England and Calcutta carrying various goods. [7] Breadalbane was a 428-ton, [7] wooden square-rigged sailing ship. The design was similar to hundreds of other trans-oceanic ships used in early Victorian times.

5. Rudder - Wikipedia

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   Large ships (over 10,000 ton gross tonnage) have requirements on rudder turnover time. To comply with this, high torque rudder controls are employed. [47] One commonly used system is the ram type steering gear. It employs four hydraulic rams to rotate the rudder stock (rotation axis), in turn rotating the rudder. [48]

6. USS Constitution - Wikipedia

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   The paddle wheels were designed to propel her at up to 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) if she was ever becalmed, by the crew using the ship's capstan. [151] Initial testing was successful, but Hull and Constitution ' s commanding officer Jacob Jones were reportedly unimpressed with paddle wheels on a US Navy ship.

7. The Skull and Bones Ship's Wheel Controller Could Change the ...

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   skull-and-bones-ships-wheel-controller. It has taken Ubisoft more than ten years to ship Skull and Bones, and the final game is doing very little to innovate on the idea of a pirate game.