sailing craft

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    In ship: Sailing ships

    The move to the pure sailing ship came with small but steadily increasing technical innovations that more often allowed ships to sail with the wind behind them. Sails changed from a large square canvas suspended from a single yard (top spar), to complex…

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• boats
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    In boat: North America

    …distinct types of small American sail and rowing boats under 40 feet in length. Some of the more notable of these are the Hampton boat of New England, first a lapstrake sail and rowing boat like the Labrador whaler but later a square-sterned, two-masted, half-decked boat equipped with a centreboard.…

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• human migration
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    In population: Early human migrations

    …by the development of seagoing sailing vessels and of pastoral nomadry. The Mediterranean Basin was the centre of the maritime culture, which involved the settlement of offshore islands and led to the development of deep-sea fishing and long-distance trade. Other favoured regions were those of the Indian Ocean and South…

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• maritime law
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    In maritime law

    …of legal rules that governs ships and shipping.

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• ship history and development
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    In ship: Shipping in the 19th century

    …last glorious days of the sailing ship were at hand. Pure sailing ships were in active use for another generation, while the earliest steamships were being launched. But by 1875 the pure sailer was disappearing, and by the turn of the 20th century the last masts on passenger ships had…

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• technological refinements
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    In history of technology: Copper and bronze

    Also, the sailing ship assumed a definitive shape, progressing from a vessel with a small sail rigged in its bows and suitable only for sailing before the prevailing wind up the Nile River, into the substantial oceangoing ship of the later Egyptian dynasties, with a large rectangular…

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sails

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  In sail

  …is used to propel a ship through water.

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• lateen sails
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    In lateen sail

    …increased the potential of the sailing ship.

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use in

• commercial fishing
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    In commercial fishing: History of commercial fishing

    …end of the 19th century, sailing vessels developed to suit conditions and fisheries in different areas. The Grand Banks schooners were the peak of such developments. Sailing from New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, they fished cod during trips lasting up to six months, salting the catch for export to…

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• early European explorations
  • In Western colonialism: Technological improvements

    In the early 15th century all-sails vessels, the caravels, largely superseded galleys for Atlantic travel; these were light ships, having usually two but sometimes three masts, ordinarily equipped with lateen sails but occasionally square-rigged. When longer voyages began, the nao, or carrack, proved better than the caravel; it had three…

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• military affairs
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    In warship: The age of gun and sail

    …long ship into the true sailing ship, which could beat into the wind as well as sail with it.

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