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    Cog (ship) (category Sailing rigs and rigging)
    thicker than the adjacent garboards and had no rabbet. Both stem and stern-posts were straight and rather long, and connected to the keel-plank through...
    22 KB (2,729 words) - 12:58, 1 November 2024
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    part of a ship's stem or stern. Media related to Deadwood (ship's stern) at Wikimedia Commons A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building, page...
    923 bytes (36 words) - 16:23, 1 August 2023
  • weakest part of an enlarged hulk would be its stem and stern. Since it has no substantial stem or stern posts those parts of the boat would have to be...
    9 KB (1,076 words) - 21:48, 11 September 2024
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    ships were sewn with coiled coconut fibre, holding the hull planking, stem and stern-post. but Omani variants, beginning in the 20th century, began nailing...
    2 KB (282 words) - 03:37, 20 June 2024
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    naval architecture, a flush deck is a ship deck that is continuous from stem to stern.[citation needed] Flush decks have been in use since the times of the...
    3 KB (348 words) - 10:18, 11 August 2024
  • cabin at the stern projecting backwards. Two Clanranald seals attached to documents dated 1572 show a birlinn with raised decks at stem and stern, a motif...
    13 KB (1,798 words) - 23:48, 30 December 2023
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    and two-oar yals have one mast used to support two quadrilateral standing split-lug sails. Wooden yals are constructed of oak keels, stem and stern posts...
    4 KB (513 words) - 22:05, 6 November 2024
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    Blackness Castle (category Buildings and structures completed in 1449)
    castle was repaired, and again served as a prison and a minor garrison. In 1693, the spur protecting the gate was heightened, and the Stern Tower shortened...
    22 KB (2,680 words) - 16:30, 17 October 2024
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    crossbeam and a thwart. The mast was stepped amidships or nearly so, and oars, including a steering oar, were also used. The stem and stern post sometimes...
    16 KB (2,151 words) - 01:36, 8 November 2024
  • them strongly curved upwards at stem and stern. Hulks continued to be mentioned in use throughout the Middle Ages and into the 16th century when it is...
    15 KB (2,052 words) - 18:29, 17 October 2024
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    "pinky stern," being a typical "double ender", a bit like a modern ship's lifeboat, with a very full turn of the bilge and with markedly raked stem and stern...
    12 KB (1,298 words) - 05:30, 20 October 2024
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    narrower than the stern quarters. There were nine wide planks per side. The ship had a light keel plank but pronounced stem and stern deadwood. The reconstruction...
    61 KB (8,478 words) - 20:20, 25 October 2024
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    better ability to sail to windward; displayed extended raking of the stem and stern; and had two masts. The hull was characterised by a reverse stempost in...
    21 KB (2,626 words) - 05:19, 4 October 2024
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    Sutton Hoo (category Buildings and structures completed in the 6th century)
    27 metres (89 ft) long, pointed at either end with tall rising stem and stern posts and widening to 4.4 metres (14 ft) in the beam amidships with an inboard...
    96 KB (11,735 words) - 08:52, 25 October 2024
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    Keel (category Sailing rigs and rigging)
    hulls, construction began with the laying of the keel, followed by the stern and stem. Frames were set up afterward, set at key points along the keel. Later...
    10 KB (1,031 words) - 03:46, 4 November 2024
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    better ability to sail to windward; displayed extended raking of the stem and stern; and had two masts. The hull was characterised by a reverse stempost in...
    51 KB (8,464 words) - 18:48, 31 August 2024
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    double-ended; having a pointed stem and stern. Retired Rear Admiral The Honourable Victor Montagu proposed the design. The Royal Navy - and associated Commonwealth...
    13 KB (1,703 words) - 16:42, 11 July 2024
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    do not extend all the way from the stem to the stern or across the ship. Afterdeck an open deck area toward the stern-aft. Berth deck: (naval) A deck next...
    22 KB (2,851 words) - 17:48, 28 October 2024
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    Cleopatra's Needle, London (category Grade I listed monuments and memorials)
    Dixon, John's brother. It had a vertical stem and stern, a rudder, two bilge keels, a mast for balancing sails, and a deck house. This acted as a floating...
    11 KB (1,209 words) - 23:27, 18 October 2024
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    There are stem and stern posts, but no keel. Thwarts are fitted, with knees supplied as required. Cleats or thole pins are fitted for the oars, and there...
    27 KB (3,543 words) - 19:31, 5 November 2024
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