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Scroby Sands is a sandbank off the coast of Norfolk, England which runs near shore, north to south from Caister south towards Great Yarmouth. [1] It has been the site of many shipwrecks. [ 2 ] Scroby Sands Wind Farm , an offshore 60 MW wind farm, is situated on the sandbank and opened in 2003.
Ship models: This scale was used by Revell for some ship models because it was one-half the size of the standard scale for wargaming models used by the U.S. Army. 1:535: 0.022: 0.570 mm: Ship models: Scale used by Revell for USS Missouri ship. Sometimes called "box scale" because chosen to fit a box size. 1:500: 0.610 mm: Architecture. Ship models
Model ships have long been used for wargaming, but it was the introduction of elaborate rules in the early 20th century that made the hobby more popular. Small miniature ships, often in 1:1200 scale and 1:1250 scale, were manoeuvred on large playing surfaces to recreate historical battles. These models were basic representations of ship types ...
Deadwood is the lower part of a ship's stem or stern. Deadwood (Labelled "3") Starboard view of rudder, sternpost, and deadwood, showing chains that prevent dredge cable from snagging between rudder and sternpost
indicates a structure that is no longer standing. For all structures the pinnacle height is given, so the height of skyscrapers may be different from the values at List of tallest buildings in the world. Structures under construction are included in the main list if their current height is over 350 metres (1,148 ft). #
Victory at Sea is a hardback book that contains a set of wargame rules used to simulate naval combat during World War II using 1/1800 scale. [1] The rules, both basic and advanced, take up about 20% of the 206-page book. [1] Other sections contain scenarios, longer campaigns, lists of ships, and illustrations of ship counters.
“Brave the Wave” (Po Lang, 破浪) sail training ship is a Type 2630 tall ship, a Chinese auxiliary ship currently in service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
The 1677 Construction Programme was a group of Royal Navy ships of the line approved on 5 March 1677. This program authorised the construction of thirty new warships for the Royal Navy and was a compromise between the 40 ship programme proposed by Samuel Pepys in 1675 and the Parliamentary counter proposal of twenty ships in 1676. [1]