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Small in Bath, Maine. With a length of 450 ft (140 m) from jib-boom tip to spanker boom tip, Wyoming was the largest known wooden ship ever built. Because...

sail. On a schooner of four or more masts, the spanker is the sail on the mast nearest the stern. The spanker is a small sail, but as it is so far aft of...

method of measuring bowsprit including jibboom and out-board part of spanker boom if any have both no effect on the ship's length. The longest length for...

called the upper spanker and lower spanker. A fore-and-aft topsail may be carried above the upper or only spanker, and is called the gaff sail. To stop...

gangway. Chesapeake's spanker boom then swung over the deck of the British ship. Mr Stevens, Shannon's boatswain, lashed the boom inboard to keep the two...

appearing to threaten Kearsarge.) A hand-held white flag at Alabama's stern spanker boom finally halted the engagement. Prior to this, she had her steering gear...

measured at 5,633 gross register tons (GRT) of cargo. Her masts, yards and spanker boom were made of steel tubing; lower mast and topmast were made in one piece...

steel: masts (lower and top mast were made in one piece) and spars (yard, spanker boom) were constructed of steel tubing, and most of the rigging was steel...

overall length including her 86 ft (26 m)-long jibboom and her protruding spanker boom was 450 ft (140 m), 334 ft (102 m) on deck. Francis B. C. Bradlee: The...

with gaff abaft the fore, with large staysails over and three jibs. Her spanker boom projected far beyond the stern."([3] Prince of Neuchatel) After her capture...

Wolfmother "Optimus Bellum Domitor" by Sak, Williams and Welch "Boom" by P.O.D. "Spank" by Jimmy "Bo" Horne "James Brown Is Dead" by L.A. Style "New Noise"...

With the infantry part of the battle over, Union artillery continued to boom across the hill. They stopped firing at 8:30 pm, leaving a wreath of smoke...

In sailing, a boom is a spar (pole), along the foot of a fore and aft rigged sail, that greatly improves control of the angle and shape of the sail. The...

A boom vang (US) or kicking strap (UK) (often shortened to "vang" or "kicker") is a line or piston system on a sailboat used to exert downward force on...

foresails (jibs) and three fore-and-aft spanker sails including two spanker sails on two gaffs and a spanker topsail) with a total sail area of 56,510...

characteristics Class and type Full-rigged ship Length 171 ft (52 m) bowsprit to spanker boom Beam 30 ft (9.1 m) Height 20 ft (6.1 m) keel to deck at midship Decks...

south easterly gales. The barque was partially dismasted, losing her spanker boom, steering binnacle and the saloon deck skylight. The Loch Lomond's skipper...

was followed by an album of the same name. Shortly after, "Cars With The Boom," an ode to subwoofers, reached No. 54 on the Billboard Hot 100, and a national...

to balance the boat. The higher the wind speed, the more important the spanker was to balance the boat. High-performance racing dinghies are most prone...

jib-boom is attached to the jib-boom, and the heel of the jib-boom to the bowsprit. The point (i.e. higher and fore end) of the flying jib-boom is generally...