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  • Thumbnail for Sail
    Sail rigs A sail is a tensile structure, which is made from fabric or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including...
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    vessels Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may...
    36 KB (3,925 words) - 22:05, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of sailing ships of the Ottoman Empire
    the Late Middle Ages to 1859. During this period, the Ottomans used both oar-powered galleys and more conventional ships of the line, along with various...
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  • Thumbnail for List of ships of the line of France
    Category:Ships of the line of the French Navy Category:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy Océan type 118-gun ship of the line List of French sail frigates Note...
    174 KB (21,702 words) - 21:08, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar sail
    Solar sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...
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  • Thumbnail for Fore-and-aft rig
    A fore-and-aft rig is a sailing vessel rig with sails set mainly along the line of the keel, rather than perpendicular to it as on a square rigged vessel...
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  • This is a list of Dutch (the United Provinces of the Netherlands) ships of the line, or sailing warships which formed the Dutch battlefleet. It covers...
    59 KB (9,197 words) - 21:04, 28 May 2024
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    Sailing ship (redirect from Sail 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...
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  • Thumbnail for Ship of the line
    A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line...
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  • Thumbnail for Leech line
    Modern sails may come with a standard leech line (leech control) that runs under the back edge of the mainsail. This line is usually fixed at the head...
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    Cruise Line Sets Sail for Exclusive Partnership with Margaritaville". Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings. Retrieved 23 July 2022. "Celebration Cruise Line rebrands...
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    A genoa sail is a type of large jib or staysail that extends past the mast and so overlaps the main sail when viewed from the side, sometimes eliminating...
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  • Black Sails is an American television drama series created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine for Starz that debuted on January 25, 2014. It was produced...
    55 KB (1,225 words) - 12:08, 28 May 2024
  • Sail Croatia is a British-based cruise line operating in the Adriatic Sea, along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. It promotes an ecological initiative...
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    Sailing (redirect from Sail navigation)
    craft and their rigs Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat...
    75 KB (9,746 words) - 01:19, 18 April 2024
  • specific point-to-point line. Usually, the individual ship operated exclusively for the line. The first American packet line to sail between an American...
    23 KB (1,908 words) - 16:01, 10 June 2024
  • This is a list of ships of the line (ironclads, coastal defence ships or battleships) serving either in the Royal Danish Navy or the Royal Dano-Norwegian...
    8 KB (1,036 words) - 12:14, 6 June 2024
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    Gaff rig (redirect from Gaff sail)
    Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and...
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    to see de Grasse's fleet already at anchor in the bay. De Grasse hastily prepared most of his fleet for battle—24 ships of the line—and sailed out to...
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  • a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward. On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails...
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