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  • Thumbnail for Bow (watercraft)
    bows exist. These include: notable bow types Straight-stem bow plumb bow raked bow flared bow clipper bow or "Aberdeen bow" Bulbous bow Inverted bow Ram...
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  • Thumbnail for Galway hooker
    for the strong seas there. It is identified by its sharp, clean entry, bluff bow, marked tumblehome and raked transom. Its sail plan consists of a single...
    6 KB (738 words) - 11:59, 13 April 2024
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    at the time. Endeavour happened to be a full-rigged ship with a plain bluff bow and a full stern with windows. William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine...
    16 KB (1,813 words) - 17:13, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dutch barge
    to be built. A typical traditional Dutch barge would have gaff rig, a bluff bow and stern, a pair of leeboards and a large rudder. The leeboards and rudder...
    8 KB (953 words) - 13:21, 22 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Abercrombie-class monitor
    completing the ships armament. The monitors had a box-like hull, with very bluff bow and stern, and were fitted with anti-torpedo bulges. In order to speed...
    8 KB (634 words) - 11:50, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fishing vessel
    between 60 and 100 tons. It was a massive round-bilged keel ship with a bluff bow and stern, the latter relatively high, and with a gallery. The busses...
    65 KB (7,891 words) - 15:16, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Henry Aspinwall
    extreme clippers. Instead of the bluff bow that was customary on ships up until that time, the Rainbow had a sharp bow, prompting on-lookers to joke that...
    21 KB (2,167 words) - 04:18, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Humber keel
    locks on their intended routes.: 4  They had strongly built hulls with a bluff bow and a flat bottom. The after part of the hull, in the region of the structural...
    7 KB (968 words) - 20:34, 19 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Traditional fishing boat
    between 60 and 100 tons. It was a massive round-bilged keel ship with a bluff bow and stern, the latter relatively high, and with a gallery. The busses...
    44 KB (5,294 words) - 11:44, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of fishing
    between 60 and 100 tons. It was a massive round-bilged keel ship with a bluff bow and stern, the latter relatively high, and with a gallery. The busses...
    66 KB (8,601 words) - 17:30, 13 August 2024
  • 80°48′S 26°42′W / 80.800°S 26.700°W / -80.800; -26.700. Prominent rock bluff on the east side of Stephenson Bastion in the south-central part of the...
    3 KB (420 words) - 18:15, 4 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Medicine Bow, Wyoming
    Medicine Bow is a town in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. Its population was 284 at the 2010 census. The community largely owes its existence to...
    17 KB (1,208 words) - 18:11, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clyde puffer
    produced three television series. Clyde puffers characteristically had bluff bows, crew's quarters with table and cooking stove in the focsle, and a single...
    11 KB (1,498 words) - 23:57, 15 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for HMCS CC-1
    torpedo tubes, four forward and one astern. This gave the submarine a bluff bow shape. The submarine used Whitehead Mk IV 18-inch (460 mm) torpedoes that...
    9 KB (964 words) - 00:46, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aetna-class ironclad floating battery
    Aetna class had "straight vertical sides and a flat bottom with a very bluff bow and stern. Their armour plates, nominally 4 inches (102 mm), but in many...
    15 KB (1,235 words) - 16:57, 29 January 2024
  • of a ship's prow: "Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned...
    16 KB (2,171 words) - 05:10, 19 September 2023
  • extreme clippers. Instead of the bluff bow that was customary on ships up until that time, the Rainbow had a sharp bow, prompting on-lookers to joke that...
    16 KB (1,610 words) - 12:47, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake freighter
    Lawrence Seaway system. Therefore, ship designers have favored bluff bows over streamlined bows.[citation needed] Another distinguishing feature of lake vessels...
    50 KB (5,159 words) - 17:21, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for CC-class submarine
    submarine a bluff bow shape. CC-2 was armed with three torpedo tubes of the same size, two forward and one astern. This gave CC-2 a tapered bow. Both ships...
    16 KB (2,191 words) - 22:43, 25 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Landing Ship, Tank
    proved their worth during the invasion of Algeria in 1942, but their bluff bows made for inadequate speed and pointed out the need for an all-new design...
    82 KB (9,937 words) - 09:56, 30 August 2024
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