Beautiful Sailing Ships
The Age of Sail is long over, but sailing ships still remain beautiful in their own way. The way the bow breaks over the waves and the ensign flying at the stern, it makes my heart melt.
Who else thinks that sailing ships are beautiful, even when compared to today's yachts? |
YER full of it! sailing ships are ugly man!:arrgh!: but then...I tend to see issues in Black and white...er orange:salute: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...2Gloria%22.jpg
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Beautiful Ship .:up:
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How to flunk seamanship 101: gravity is not 64 yr old's friend
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Found somewhere on t' internet...
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Four brave British crews thought: "THIS is an Ugly sight": History's #1 Frigate (as per post 1's French frigate) and still shootn' and (rarely) under her own power! (winds over 5 mph or she won't move but under 15 mph she's too old for more) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...tle_Island.jpghttp://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam...ge-gallery.jpg
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I saw this nice looking sloop (it's a sloop of war I think) while I was in Conway, Wales back a few years ago. I also have a photo of a single decked two masted ship docked next to the HMS Belfast but it photo is quite bad.
http://s6.postimg.org/5eo1hj2ip/Europe_Trip_265.jpg |
Beautiful! but as the foremast is shorter (as also on a brig)than the mainmast AND there are two gaff rig masts What ya got there is a magnificent square rigged Schooner. At least two headsails to the bowsprit and possibly three.
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Ah, I guess I got confussed between the differences of sloop and schooner. Really I don't know a lot about ships from the days of sail, speaking of I found this buried deep in my screenshot archives from a campaign I did in NTW.
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A sloop rig has a single mast. If it has two masts and they're fore-and-aft rigged, then it's a schooner. If both masts are square rigged then it's a brig. If the foremast is square rigged and the after mast is fore-and-aft, then it's a brigantine. On the other hand a brig hull has the guns along the weather deck but also has raised fore and after castles. A sloop has all the guns on the weather deck and no raised decks. The vessel pictured would be described in an 18th century navy as a brig-rigged sloop. And yes, it's a sloop-of-war. |
I've got myself a successful thread here :D
Great photos, guys! |
A fighting topsail schooner: HMS Pickle
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...klereplica.jpg(only two head sails) |
Not 'square rigged' schooners
BAY area Schooners: ALMA-built 1891 gaff'd with top sails;http://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/histor...rway_688px.jpgMARTHA-built 1907 lower foremast & two ungaff'd boom'd aft-sails=schooner no top'sails on Martha . A schooner w/o topsails is 'bald headed schooner'. Gaff'd schooners, while very esthetic, require dual halyards and much adjusting while underway; modern versions are simpler with single halyards; a serious consideration for old sailors taken to falling through hatchways...:doh: The sail gloves (my previous post) are completely shot after two months on just a single-mast sloop rig Catalina.:arrgh!:http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/37/03/73.../3/920x920.jpgTHIS ONE has it all: SV SEASHELL Holland-1920 http://www.sailingshipadventures.com...ellwebsite.jpgGaff rigged, square rigged, and top sails!(5,500 square feet of sail)
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