Ships: The heritage and Specification of three hundred World-Famous КНИГИ ;ВОЕННАЯ ИСТОРИЯ Издательство: Silverdale BooksАвтор(ы): Chris BishopЯзык: EnglishГод издания: 2005Количество страниц: 320ISBN: 1-84509-303-8Формат: pdf OCRРазмер: 57,7 mbFeatures three hundred mercantile and armed forces ships from precedent days to the current day: - each one send is illustrated with a color paintings and short carrier heritage - complete requisites for every send contain displacement, dimensions, armament, pace and supplement RAPIDили IFOLDER eighty five
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1m (16ft 6in) Railway, which he had engineered. Atlantic m 15 days. An engine-room Displacement: 2300t Passengers would take a fast train to accIdent on arnval caused the death of the Rigging: four masts; foremast square-rigged, Bristol to connect with the steamer, a engmeer, but GTutt Western went on to remainder fore-and-aft-rigged combination that provided the fastest make almost 70 crossings. Her best time Complement: not known route between London and New York. was 12 days and 9 hours eastbound.
Appear to have been successful. The of the Mediterranean favoured oared vessels, they were still being built in substantial numbers into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 6m (12ft) Displacement: not known RIgging: three masts; lateen-rigged Armament: 20 guns, plus 20-30 light swivel cannon Complement: 350 oarsmen, 40 gunners, 30 seamen, plus soldiers SHIPS 33 Dutch frigate Like so many other older ship terms, Both the Dutch and the English were was not in the Ime of battle, however, but 'frigate' was not used with precision: building ships of this type from the mid- as an escort vessel or~ more often, as a swift its conventional seventeenth-century seventeenth century.
9m (3ft) Displacement: 64t Rigging: not applicable Machinery: single-acting Complement: not known Routes: River Parrett, England 58 SHIPS Washington In 1846, when the US government 1847 for the Ocean Steam Navigation subsidized the transatlantic mail Company, was the first American liner. 4m (31ft) compete with the established British Congress stopped the mail subsidy and Displacement: 1750t lines on the Atlantic run. she was withdrawn. 1 m (230ft) The wooden-hulled paddle steamer between New York, Cowes on the Isle of Machinery: sidewheels, side lever Washington, launched at New York in Wight and the German port of Bremen.