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  Ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the view of Naval Architect, Shipping authority or Classification society, the coaming is one of the critical criteria for the damage stability.
One can measure ships in terms of overall length, length of the waterline, beam (breadth), depth (distance between the crown of the weather deck and the top of the keelson), draft (distance between the highest waterline and the bottom of the ship) and tonnage.
Brigantine A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the main.
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 Ship
A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, sometimes with multiple decks.
Most ships built since around 1960 have used diesel power or motors; one exception, Queen Elizabeth 2 of 1968, started with steam turbines but subsequently converted to diesel as a cost-saving measure.
In the past, people counting or grouping disparate types of ship may refer to the individual vessels as bottoms.
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 Newboats.com - All the Boats. All the specs. All the time.
A ship's lower mast is a made spar, her topmast is a whole spar.
Mainmast: - the tallest mast of the ship; on a schooner, the mast furthest aft.
When a ship is moored by the head with her own anchors, they are disposed according to the circumstances of the place where the lies, and the time she is to continue therein.
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 Parts Of A Sailing Ship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Sailing ship is now used to refer to any large, wind-powered, vessel.
The full-rigged ship is a sailing vessel with square yards and sails on all three, or four, masts...
The noun sailing ship has one meaning: Meaning #1 : a vessel that is...
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 sailing ship types
These are the most common names given to different types of sailing ships.
… The carvel-type ships suffered a serious drawback in that they were difficult to make … But these ships were hard to handle with their huge sail spars and …
Elizabeth's gene therapy triumph: Dr. Jeffrey Isner was the captain of the ship.
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