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 ...
noun(n.) 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 ...
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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...
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...
I was wondering if you would have any more information on the name Vela- have found multiple meanings in various languages and see it referenced many times from the constellation Argo Navis. My husband and I met sailing so the Latin origin of Vela meaning sails or veil is very appealing. ...
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...
carryingwhatever cargo and passengers are available on the date of sailing. The first liners were operated in the North Atlantic, notably bySamuel CunardofBritain, beginning in 1840.Cunardliners continued to be leaders, though soon joined by French, German, U.S., and other ships, subsidized ...
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