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A cargo vessel used for trade between Eastern India and Indochina. Brig. A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. Brigantine. A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the main. Caravel. (Portuguese) A much smaller, two, sometimes three-masted ship. Carrack.
Ship breaking or ship demolition is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for scrap recycling, with the hulls being discarded in ship graveyards. Most ships have a lifespan of a few decades before there is so much wear that refitting and repair becomes uneconomical.
Concrete ship. Container ship. Convoy rescue ship. Corvette. Cottonclad warship. Coulombi egg tanker. Crane vessel. Crash boats of World War II. Cruise ship.
This is a list of types of watercraft which have seen naval use. Sailing vessel types Barque ... Ship of the line; Sloop-of-war; Trireme; Xebec; Modern vessel types.
A ship class is a group of ships of a similar design. [1] This is distinct from a ship type, [1] which might reflect a similarity of tonnage or intended use. For example, USS Carl Vinson is a nuclear aircraft carrier (ship type) of the Nimitz class (ship class). In the course of building a class of ships, design changes might be implemented.
Ships by coast guard (12 C, 4 P) Ships of the line (5 C, 7 P) Slave ships (4 C, 54 P) Small waterplane area twin hull vessels (19 P) Steamships (14 C, 266 P, 1 F) Submarine rescue ships (4 C, 24 P)
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 475 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 90 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
List of sailing boat types. A Windmill sailing dinghy. The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies and multihull ( catamarans and trimarans ).