Lighter (or barge) |
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Boat used for loading or unloading of ships. Cannot approach the dock. |
Skiff, punt, barque |
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The three-masted barque is a ship with a foremast, main mast, and a mast barque carrying only a spanker, instead of the
mizzen, top gallant ardor and mizzen top gallant. |
Bisquine |
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Vessel with two or three masts with lower sails and topsail on the third. |
Brig |
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Ship of small tonnage with two square-rigged masts, often used by pirates, similar to the brigantine. |
Brigantine |
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Two-masted vessel, square-rigged to the front and gaff sail (or square) in the back, it has only one bridge.
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Brûlot |
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Unmanned vessel loaded with highly flammable substances and powder which is launched at the opponent
and that we switch on nearby. |
Boat, small boat |
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Small light embarcation moving at rowing or sailing intended for users of the ship on which it is embedded. |
Caraque |
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Strong war and trade ship during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries used by the Portuguese. This fortress,
tall and narrow, can carry 2,000 tons and accommodate 2,000 men. |
Caravel |
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Two-masted building during fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, slender, usually rigged with a lateen sail. The drawing shows a
Portuguese caravel. |
Lugger
or sloop |
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Small ship with one mast and jib. |
Tidehunter
or lugger |
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Fishing boat, rigged two-masted gaff, nowadays generally with an engine. |
Xebec |
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Small Mediterranean building, thin and fast, used by pirates from North Africa. Three rigged masts, lateen
sails on antennas. |
Clipper |
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High-wing three-master, very fast. Each mast can carry up to seven square sails: mainsail, fixed topsail, flying topsail,
fixed top gallant, flying top gallant, royal and royal staysail or skysails. |
Cog |
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Sailboat high planking siding from the days of the Hanseatic League, short body and picked up, carrying up to 100
Lastes heavy (= 200 tons). Single mast ship, rigged with a square sail. |
Corsair |
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Armed war vessel used by individuals, generally authorized by a letter of marque, and running to the sea his
expense against merchant vessels of the enemy. |
Corvette, sloop of war |
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Small warship, fast and very handy, intermediate between Brick and
Frigate barque-rigged or three-masted, and carrying only one row of cannons. It is used to give chase to the enemy. |
Cutter |
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Fishing vessel with only one mast and several jibs, schooner-rigged
and used in several countries to cabotage, with loads up to 100 tons. |
Dhau |
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Arab sailboat thin and fast, a lateen-rigged sail. Famous ship of Arab pirates. |
Dory |
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Small flat-bottomed boat, pointed and raised at both ends. |
Flute |
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Famous Dutch sailboat of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Three-masted barque-rigged with shallow
draft, with a length to width ratio of 4 to 1 and a very high rig. This warship is equipped to carry food and ammunition. |
Frigate |
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Very fast warship, thin, and three-masted fully rigged with square lines, with forecastle to the front and aftercastle
to the rear. Crew of 300 to 600 men, armament 30 to 60 cannons. |
Fuste |
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Long building with low board, using both sailing and oars. |
Store ship |
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Great boat for loading and unloading ships. Building rigged three-master that can do long journeys. |
Galleass |
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From the latin "Galea Grossa" is a large galley. Warship in the Mediterranean
in the 16th and 17th centuries, armed with 28-31 oars on each side and many guns on the upper deck, from the stern to the bow. Downwind,
we could hoist lateen sails to the three masts. |
Galley |
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Slender rowing and powerful vessel, used as warship in the Mediterranean since the 11th century. The front stand
has a castle on which jet machines and later guns were placed. The galley was with a Lateen sail mast. |
Galleon |
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Grand building of charge in the 17th century, three or four-masted square sails, heavy, armed with 60-70 guns. This is the ship
that carried the treasures, gold, and silver of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in America. 50 to 60 meters in length, 20-25 meters in
width, with four to five floors in the aftercastle. |
Galiote |
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Small light galley with 16-22 swimming tanks and one Latin sail mast. |
Schooner |
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Light sailing ship, rigged to fore-and-aft sails (trapezoidal) on horns, where the main mast is the rear mast. |
Junk |
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Chinese building bridged, but without keel. Sailing junks usually have two masts, but sometimes several,
or just one. Their sails have their characteristic slats that spread throughout the mast wind pressure. Used as a transport
ship in war and piracy. |
Ketch |
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Square stern ship with a main mast and mizzen mast. |
Liburne |
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Small rowing boat sculling governed, developed by Mediterranean pirates and taken over by the Romans. Originally with
a single row of oars, later with two. |
Nave |
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Ship of the Middle Ages with high aftercastle, designed for long crossings. |
Patache |
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Lightweight building used to serve larger vessels to go ashore and send news. |
Pinasse |
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Light, long, narrow boat for sailing or rowing. |
Pink |
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Ship with three masts representative of a compromise between the frigate for
speed and firepower, and the three-masted barque for load capacity. Vessel found mainly in the
Mediterranean. This was also the favorite building of pirates and privateers in the North Sea and the Baltic. |
Polacre |
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Name given to the jib on Latin boats.
Also means a square rigged ship (Mediterranean) rigged masts pible (one strand). |
Pontoon |
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Dismasted ship anchored in port or on a river and serves as a floating prison. |
Prao |
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Generic name given to Malaysian boats with one or two pendulums, with [with or for?] rowing or sailing. |
Sampan |
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Narrow and light boat of the Chaine sea, generally driven by rowing and carrying a hut in the middle. Many families
use it as a houseboat. |
Sloop |
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Small ship with a mast and a jib. |
Tartane, lateen coaster |
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Small Mediterranean building with a triangular sail and used primarily to carry goods. |
Trireme |
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Classical Greek warship. Vessel with three rows of oars, with a spur circled iron. Downwind the trireme could
raise a mast carrying a small sail. |
Yacht |
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Small building for sports or recreation, one or two masts, with engine today. Formerly armed coaster cutter or schooner. |
Dinghy, tender |
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Small boat with sails or oars, usually shipped from ships as lifeboat or service boat. |
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