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Some historical types of ships and boats

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Barque

A sailingvessel with three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost.

 

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Barquentine

A sailingvessel with three or more masts, square-rigged only on the foremast.
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Battleship

A large,heavily-armoured and heavily-gunned warship. A term which generally post-datessailing warships.
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Bireme

An ancientvessel, propelled by two banks of oars.
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Brig

Atwo-masted, square-rigged vessel.
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Brigantine

Atwo-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on themain.


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Caravel

A muchsmaller, two, sometimes three-masted ship.

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Clipper

A fastmultiple-masted sailing ship, generally used by merchants because of theirspeed capablities.
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EastIndiaman

An armedmerchantman belonging to one of the East Indiacompanies (Dutch, British etc.)


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Galleass

A sailingand rowing warship, equally well suited to sailing and rowing.
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Longship

A Vikingraiding ship
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Paddle steamer

Asteam-propelled, paddle-driven vessel, a name commonly applied to nineteenthcentury excursion steamers.
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Pre-dreadnought

A type ofbattleship of the late 19th century to early 20th century, characterized byhaving a mixed offensive battery, in contrast to the "all-big-gun"Dreadnought type battleships.


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Quinquereme

An ancientwarship propelled by three banks of oars. On the upper row three rowers holdone oar, on the middle row - two rowers, and on the lower row - one man to anoar.
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Schooner

A fore andaft-rigged vessel with two or more masts of which the foremast is shorter thanthe main.
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SmallWaterplane Area Twin Hull(SWATH)

A modernship design used for Research Vessels and other purposes needing a steady shipin rough seas.
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Steamship

A shippropelled by a steam engine.
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Trireme

An ancientwarship propelled by three banks of oars.