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Pages in category "1700s ships" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Foudroyant is seen here leading the French ship of the line Pegues, which the former had captured during the Third Battle of Ushant, into Portsmouth Harbour. Naval engagements were common throughout the 18th century and repeatedly resulted in the capture of enemy vessels.
Pages in category "17th-century ships" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Carrack; D. Djong; F.
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
The ships of the Age of Discovery post-dated the fusion of the northern European [a] and Mediterranean ship-building traditions. Prior to the late 13th/early 14th centuries, northern European ships were typically clinker built, [b] with a single mast setting a square sail and a centre-line rudder hung on the sternpost with pintles and gudgeons.
The longship was a type of ship developed over a period of centuries and perfected by its most famous users, the Vikings, around the 9th century. The ships were clinker-built, using overlapping wooden strakes. The knaar, a relative of the longship, was a type of cargo vessel.
It acted as both a cargo ship, carrying close to 10 million pounds of tea between 1870 and 1877, and a training ship, and was known as one of the fastest ships of its time.
The Battle of Scheveningen, 10 August 1653, painted by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten A ship of war, Cyclopaedia 1728, Vol 2. The Age of Sail is a period in European history that lasted at the latest from the mid-16th (or mid-15th) [1] to the mid-19th centuries, in which the dominance of sailing ships in global trade and warfare culminated, particularly marked by the introduction of naval ...