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Ship rig
Ship rig A full rigged ship (a vessel with 3 or more masts ... square-rigged) is said to have a ship rig. Thus such a vessel is sometimes ...
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Semisubmersible floating rig ship   (translated from German)
Semisubmersible floating rig ship As Semisubmersible floating rig ship designates one ships, which possess flotation chambers ... gesamtauftrieb. Compared with normal ships semisubmersible floating rig ships lie very calmly in the ...
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Ship
Ship Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, sometimes with multiple decks. A ship usually has sufficient size to carry its ... goes: "a boat can fit on a ship, but a ship can't fit ...
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Junk (ship)
Junk (ship) A four-masted junk. A Junk is ... to represent one of the most successful ship types in history. Design Junks are efficient ... as one of the most efficient of ship designs: "As an engine for carrying man ... flatness of sail and handiness, the Chinese rig is unsurpassed." (H. Warington Smith) Sail plan ... adopted in the West around 1304. The rig is fore-and-aft, allowing for ...
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Sailing ship
Sailing ship For history of "sailing ship" see shipbuilding. Traditional wooden cutter under sail. In technical terms, a sailing ship is a sailing vessel of at least ... them. More commonly, however, the term sailing ship is often used to refer to any wind-powered ship. Historically, sailing ships were the primary ...
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Square rig
Square rig Main-mast of a square-rigged ship, with all square sails set except the course. Square rig is a generic type of sailing vessel ... are perpendicular to the keel of the ship. These spars are called yardarms or simply yards. Square rig was the main design in the ...
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Smack (ship)
Smack (ship) The Smack was an English sailing vessel ... Cog | Corvette | Cutter | Dhow | Fluyt | Fore & Aft Rig | Frigate | Full Rigged Ship | Gaff Rig | Galleon | Gunter Rig | Hermaphrodite Brig | Junk | Ketch | Mersey Flat | ...
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Pink (ship)
Pink (ship) A pink is one of two different types of ship. The first was a small, flat-bottomed ship with a narrow stern; the name derived ... in the Mediterranean Sea as a cargo ship. In the Atlantic Ocean the word pink was used to describe any small ship with a narrow stern, having derived ...
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Pram (ship)
Pram (ship) A pram or pramm was a type of shallow-draught flat-bottomed ship used in Europe during the 18th Century ... Cog | Corvette | Cutter | Dhow | Fluyt | Fore & Aft Rig | Frigate | Full Rigged Ship | Gaff Rig | Galleon | Gunter Rig | Hermaphrodite Brig | Junk | ...
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Snow (ship)
Snow (ship) A snow (pronounced "snoo") was a two ... the 19th centuries, the largest two-masted ship of her period with a tonnage of ... around 1,000 tons, primarily a merchant ship but also used at war. She carried ... Cog | Corvette | Cutter | Dhow | Fluyt | Fore & Aft Rig | Frigate | Full Rigged Ship | Gaff Rig | Galleon | Gunter Rig | Hermaphrodite ...
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