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The trainerilla (Spanish for 'little trainera') has a crew of 6 rowers and one cox, all sitting in a row. The batel or chipironier is a smaller boat used close to the coast for a variety of fish, with 4 rowers and a cox. The bateliku [10] is a smaller boat used close to the coast for a variety of fish, with 3 rowers and a cox. [11]
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Navantia is a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding dedicated to civil and military naval construction, the design of deep-tech systems [3] and the manufacture of structures for the renewable energy sector, such as offshore wind or hydrogen.
The Spanish were excellent shipbuilders; later on in the century, ships themselves were used as items of commerce. The English alone have records of buying six galleons from the Spanish in order to build up their own fleet. Even with a dwindling supply of trees, the profitable avenue of shipbuilding encouraged construction.
Before the advent of nautical charts in the 14th century, navigation at sea relied on the accumulated knowledge of navigators and pilots.Plotting a course at sea required knowing the direction and distance between point A and point B. Knowledge of where places lay relative to each other was acquired by mariners during their long experience at sea.
After Lough Foyle was cleared, a gale struck and La Girona was driven on to Lacada Point and the "Spanish Rocks'" (as they were known, thereafter) near Ballintoy in The Route, a territory on the north coast of County Antrim in the north-east of Ulster, on the night of 26 October 1588. Of the estimated 1,300 people on board, nine survived. 260 ...
The primary 3-inch gun of Atalaya. Atalaya is an offshore patrol vessel with a displacement of 1,200 tons. It is 68 m (223 ft 1 in) long, has a beam of 10 m (32 ft 10 in), and a draught of 3 m (9 ft 10 in).