Given the vessel’s training role, Both said Damen takes considerable pride in its role in training the crew that will operate Shabab Oman II.“Even for experienced sailors, this is a complex sailing ship with 35 sails, each of them operated via eight ropes. We provided a hands-on training...
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This position was originally for the purpose of... (full context) Chapter 9 Aboard the Indomitable, Billy served in the foretop, with other young men managing the smaller top sails. This... (full context) But on the Indomitable, Billy repeatedly found himself in trouble involving minor...
The extended surface of the arm of a windmill. noun (n.) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. noun (n.) A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water. noun (n.) To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship...
A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. noun (n.) One who sails near the shore. cockmaster noun (n.) One who breeds gamecocks. concertmeister noun (n.) The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the ...
Princess Cruises’ sixth Royal-Class cruise ship will be christenedDiscovery Princess, and will be the cruise line’s first-ever vessel to be based on the West Coast, sailing out of Los Angeles. Designed from the ground up as a Princess Medallion Class ship, the 143,700-ton, 3,660-passe...
A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft. windore noun (n.) A window. window noun (n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by...
noun(n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. noun(n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. verb(v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a...
It was owned by the London-based ship brokerage Culliford & Clarke, which hoped to make cruising the centre of its business. The Ceylon was a single-screw, iron-hulled auxiliary steamer—meaning that it had both a steam engine and sails—and could hold up to 100 passengers. Its ...
Warship, the chief instrument by which military power is projected onto the seas. Warships have been designed from earliest times to be faster and sturdier than merchant ships and to be capable of carrying offensive weapons. This article traces the devel