Useful english dictionary. 2012.
Warship — This article is about ships that are built and primarily intended for war. For other uses, see Warship (disambiguation). The Cannon Shot by Willem van de Velde the Younger, showing a 17th century Dutch ship of the line A warship is a ship that is … Wikipedia
Sailing ship — is now used to refer to any large wind powered vessel. In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a specific rig of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making the sailing adjective redundant. In popular usage ship became … Wikipedia
Ironclad warship — An ironclad was a steam propelled warship of the later 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates. [Hill, Richard. War at Sea in the Ironclad Age ISBN 0 304 35273 X; p.17] The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of… … Wikipedia
Mast (sailing) — Sails on a small ship as seen from below The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall, vertical, or near vertical, spar, or arrangement of spars, which supports the sails. Large ships have several masts, with the size and configuration depending on the … Wikipedia
German warship Scharnhorst (1936) — For the German armoured cruiser, commissioned in 1907, see SMS Scharnhorst Scharnhorst was a famous World War II capital ship, the lead of her class, referred to as either a light battleship or a battlecruiser [The battlecruiser classification… … Wikipedia
Monitor (warship) — This page is about the Monitor type of warships. For the U.S. Navy warship which gave its name to this type, see USS Monitor. The USS Monitor, the first monitor (1861). A monitor was a class of relatively small warship which was neither fast nor… … Wikipedia
Japanese ironclad warship Fusō — nihongo| Fusō |扶桑| Fusō was an ironclad warship of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. She was built by the Samuda Brothers on the Isle of Dogs, London, United Kingdom, and commissioned in January 1878. She was the first armored warship to be built … Wikipedia
Russian warship Neva — The Russian sloop of war Neva visits Kodiak. Neva was a Russian sloop of war, bought in Britain. It was named after the Neva River. It was the first Russian ship to circumnavigate the globe in 1804 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Yuri… … Wikipedia
Japanese steam warship Takao — was a steam warship belonging to the former navy of the Bakufu during the Boshin War of 1868 1869. She had been seized from the navy of the fief of Akita. She was originally built in the Netherlands under the name Aschwelotte , and then purchased … Wikipedia
List of historical ship types — This is a list of historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used.;Barque: A sailing vessel with three or more masts, fore and aft rigged on only the aftermost.;Barquentine: A sailing vessel with three or… … Wikipedia
