The word brig has been used in the past as an abbreviation of brigantine (which is the name for a two-masted vessel with foremast fully square rigged and her mainmast rigged with both a fore-and-aft mainsail, square topsails and possibly topgallant sails). The brig actually developed as a variant of...

A frigate (from Dutch fregat, or fregata from French frégate, German Fregatte- a type of Mediterranean galley) is a type of military vessel (ship). The term comes from the Dutch vrijgetten schip - "free-running ship", designed to perform tasks separately from the main forces of the fleet. ...

Adviesjacht (Аdvice hunt) An advisory yacht «De Snelheit»,seen from the starboard side. Advisory yachts were built for speed. They served the navy and were suitable for passing between ships to exchange advice. The ship depicted is a cutter, a type of ship primarily used by the English and Dutch as ...

(Jacht van Gecommiteerde Raaden.) A Yacht of the Councillors, seen from the starboard side. The ship is fully under sail. It carries three flags bearing the coat of arms of Holland. The transom is decorated with carvings. The ship is towing a sloop. A village can be seen in the background. These yac...

Gunboats were designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets. Usually they were small undecked vessels carrying a single smoothbore cannon in the bow. The small gunboat had advantages: if it only carried a single cannon, the boat could maneuver in shallow or...

The hoeker is a round-built three-master of Dutch origin from the seventeenth century . Fishing vessels that were not built like a hoeker but were used for hoeknet fishing have also been described as hoeker. In Zoetermeer, the so-called Hoekerkade, named after this fishing vessel, exists in a distri...

The pinkship- this was a small fishing vessel used along the North Sea coast for catching flatfish and roundfish. The ship could be loaded and unloaded on the beach, a typical practice for coastal fishing. A reconstruction of an Egmond pink was built in Egmond aan Zee between 2003 and 2006. Another ...

A brigantine (also called a schooner-brig) is a sailing vessel with two masts. As the name suggests, brigantine (schooner) comes from the word brig. Only the foremast is square-rigged. The aft mast is gaff-rigged (schooner-rigged) and carries one or two square sails. The name comes from the Italian ...

Information in margin of Ms In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, shipowners and skippers primarily acquired their cargo by contacting merchants seeking ship space. When a merchant needed an entire ship to transport his goods, he could charter it. This was especially common when transporting ...

In the 17th and 18th centuries and long afterwards, water transport was the most common method of transporting people and goods. Inland roads were mostly unpaved and impassable for large parts of the year. Ships are needed for water transport. In the 17th and 18th centuries, wooden ships were built ...

The Dream of America Between 1836 and 1915, over 750,000 Norwegians emigrated to America, giving Norway the highest emigration rate among the Nordic countries relative to its population. The first recorded journey was made by the pinnace Restauration from Stavanger to New York in 1825, led by Cleng ...

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In the war against the Ottoman Empire, Montenegro occupied Bar after a long struggle and gained access to the sea in 1878.This important historical event is depicted in Ivan Žmirić's painting "The Wedding Between Montenegro and the Sea", a version of which is kept in Kotor's Maritime Museu...

Soleil-Royal was a ship in the French Navy, the third ship of that name. She was the first 80-gun two-decker to use the 24-pounder long gun on her second battery, giving her considerable firepower for the time and allowing her to challenge three-deckers. Her name Soleil-Royal, honouring the French c...

Commodore William Bainbridge (May 7, 1774 – July 27, 1833) was a United States Navy officer. During his long career in the young American navy he served under six presidents beginning with John Adams and is notable for his many victories at sea. He commanded several famous naval ships, including USS...