aboard
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
In or on board a ship. The word is also widely used in other maritime meanings: for one ship to fall aboard another was for it to fall foul of another; in the days of sailing navies to lay...
aerodynamics
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
A branch of the science of pneumatics which deals with air and other gases in motion and with their mechanical effects. In its maritime connection it can be used to explain how a wind...
board
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
bowline
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
ˈbōlin; ˈbōˌlīn
n. a rope attached to the weather leech of a square sail and leading forward, thus helping the ship sail nearer the wind.
catharpings
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
chapelled
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
A ship is said to be chapelled, or to build a chapel, when, after losing way through the water in a light or baffling wind (see also catspaw), it turns completely round or, when close...
dagger-board
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
A sliding centreboard of wood or metal. It can be raised or lowered inside a case through a slot in the keel of a shallow-draught boat, to increase the effective draught and so reduce...
dynaship
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
A project launched during the 1970s in Germany to examine the possibility of using wind as the main motive power for merchant vessels. The proposition was to reintroduce square-rigged ships...
fetch
Overview page. Subjects: Earth Sciences and Geography.
jib
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
A triangular sail set by sailing vessels on the stays of the foremast. The largest square-rigged sailing vessels of the late 19th century and early 20th century carried as many as six jibs,...