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  • Thumbnail for Wind Song (ship)
    Wind Song was a 4-masted motor sailing yacht used as a cruise ship by Windstar Cruises from 1987 until 2002, when the ship suffered an engine room fire...
    5 KB (387 words) - 09:22, 6 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Wind Spirit (ship)
    Wind Spirit is a motor sailing yacht, sailing as a cruise ship for Windstar Cruises. She is one of an unusual class of only three vessels (Wind Star,...
    3 KB (95 words) - 16:33, 16 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wind Surf (ship)
    MSY Wind Surf is a five-mast staysail schooner that is one of the largest sailing cruise ships in the world, with two electric propulsion motors powered...
    5 KB (336 words) - 15:51, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wind Star (ship)
    Wind Star is a motor sailing yacht, sailing as a cruise ship for Windstar Cruises. She is one of an unusual class of only three vessels (Wind Star, Wind...
    3 KB (82 words) - 19:19, 6 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Trafalgar order of battle
    some ships from getting between the wind and other ships, "stealing" their wind and running the risk of collision. The same wind that was moving the French...
    65 KB (4,251 words) - 18:49, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sailing ship
    Sail plans A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel. There is a variety...
    75 KB (7,913 words) - 11:45, 23 October 2024
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    electricity, and recreation. Wind powers the voyages of sailing ships across Earth's oceans. Hot air balloons use the wind to take short trips, and powered...
    106 KB (11,212 words) - 01:29, 18 November 2024
  • windmill ship, wind energy conversion system ship or wind energy harvester ship propels itself by use of a wind turbine to drive a propeller. They use wind power...
    5 KB (731 words) - 01:45, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Beaufort scale
    speed numbers, but related qualitative wind conditions to effects on the sails of a frigate, then the main ship of the Royal Navy, from "just sufficient to...
    24 KB (1,809 words) - 18:17, 18 November 2024
  • her and masturbates. When a ship appears for the first time in years, Emmeline does not light the signal fire and the ship passes by without noticing them...
    33 KB (2,972 words) - 01:39, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ship of the line
    the ship; the bow would be forced low into the water while sailing before the wind. But as guns were introduced and gunfire replaced boarding as the primary...
    30 KB (4,172 words) - 10:34, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silver Wind
    Silver Wind is a small cruise ship operated by Silversea Cruises, a luxury cruise line. The ship entered service in 1995 and is the second ship of her...
    3 KB (96 words) - 23:37, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Offshore wind power
    Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea. There are higher wind speeds...
    121 KB (12,161 words) - 22:25, 5 November 2024
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    A wind farm or wind park, or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from...
    79 KB (8,957 words) - 20:25, 12 November 2024
  • Steam brig (category Ship types)
    brig is a two-masted sailing ship with auxiliary steam power. The advantage was supposed to be that the ship could sail up-wind when it was convenient, and...
    1 KB (145 words) - 09:24, 29 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of ship directions
    Inboard: attached inside the ship. Keel: the bottom structure of a ship's hull. Leeward: side or direction away from the wind (opposite of "windward")...
    10 KB (968 words) - 05:03, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for E-Ship 1
    E-Ship 1 is a roll-on/lift-off (RoLo) cargo ship that made its first voyage with cargo in August 2010. The ship is owned by the third-largest wind turbine...
    7 KB (654 words) - 14:02, 14 November 2024
  • Windstar Cruises (redirect from Wind Star)
    1984, and its first ship, the Wind Star was launched in 1986, and was followed by the Wind Song which was launched in 1987 and Wind Spirit which was launched...
    17 KB (1,188 words) - 15:51, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sailing ship tactics
    low in the hulls of larger sailing ships and to escape solely sail-powered opponents by rowing into the wind. The line of battle tactic that allowed efficient...
    38 KB (5,648 words) - 09:47, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rotor ship
    arrangement of forces, a rotor ship is able to sail closer to the wind than a conventional sailing ship. Other advantages include the ease of control from sheltered...
    19 KB (1,993 words) - 10:22, 11 October 2024
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