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  • Thumbnail for Thwart
    A thwart is a part of an undecked boat that provides seats for the crew and structural rigidity for the hull. A thwart goes from one side of the hull to...
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  • Graza to repair it and decides to sink it to thwart his plan. Munder is crushed to death under the ship's gears while scuba diving in the flooded engine...
    29 KB (3,296 words) - 21:58, 13 May 2024
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    Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, used in Scandinavia from the Viking Age throughout the Middle Ages. The boat-types were quite varied...
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  • the two most powerful daimyōs, Toranaga and Ishido, as they both seek to thwart the other's ambitions. As a subtext, there is also the political manoeuvring...
    24 KB (2,855 words) - 06:34, 16 May 2024
  • ship's course shows that it just travels round and round the Atlantic in huge circles. They both decide to escape, but are thwarted when the ship's lifeboats...
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  • wood together, such as the hull, gunwales, thwarts, etc. trial trip A (usually short) voyage for a new ship to test its capabilities and ensure that everything...
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  • Thumbnail for Russian patrol ship Vasily Bykov
    Warship". thedrive.com. 7 June 2022. "Russia says it thwarts Ukrainian attacks on navy and civilian ships in Black Sea". Reuters. 1 August 2023. Zubkova, Daria...
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    perhaps down onto the stringer. The structure of gunwale, rising, thwart and thwart knees greatly stiffens and strengthens the shell and turns it into...
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    top of its hull, reinforced with wood, plastic or aluminum, to carry the thwarts. On a narrowboat or canal boat, the gunwale is synonymous with the side...
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    As a ship's boat, the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender...
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  • of the regular, recurring, and other characters of the TV series The Last Ship. If courage had a face, it would be identical to the face of Tom Chandler...
    113 KB (9,965 words) - 21:00, 21 April 2024
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    Bomb vessel (redirect from Bomb ship)
    A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannons (long guns or carronades)...
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    Cartagena de Indias in 1741. A new French attempt to invade Britain was thwarted by the defeat of their escort fleet in the extraordinary Battle of Quiberon...
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    USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    attempting to board the tanker with ladders, though Polaris's crew was able to thwart their efforts. Upon arriving in the area, Vella Gulf intercepted a skiff...
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    Launch (boat) (category Ship's boats)
    each thwart, each operating their own oar on their side of the boat. This contrasts with a single-banked boat, with just one oarsman on each thwart operating...
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    region. The Royal Malaysian Navy has been patrolling the Gulf of Aden to thwart piracy since 2009. In January 2011, the navy foiled a hijacking attempt...
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  • a double-banked open boat carried by a sailing ship, rowed by eight or ten oarsmen, two per thwart, although designed also to be rigged for sailing;...
    306 KB (38,471 words) - 11:10, 13 May 2024
  • shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steamships. It shows the role that ships played in such matters as international...
    45 KB (6,257 words) - 15:56, 28 March 2024
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    Longboat (category Ship's boats)
    oars or by sail. The oars were double-banked - with two oarsmen on each thwart, each using an oar on their own side. The usual sailing rig was single masted...
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    steer the ship to safety. Brighton returned to Newhaven to summon aid and the tug Alert was sent to assist Preussen. A November gale thwarted attempts...
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