Ship

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Some historical types of ships and boats

• Barque A sailing vessel with three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost.
• Barquentine A sailing vessel with three or more masts, square-rigged only on the foremast.
• Battle cruiser A light battleship.
• Battleship a large, heavily-armoured and heavily-gunned warship. A term which generally post-dates sailing warships.
• Bilander
• Bireme An ancient vessel, propelled by two banks of oars.
• Birlinn
• Blockade runner A ship whose current business is to slip past a blockade.
• 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
• Carrack
• Clipper
• Cog
• Collier A vessel designed for the coal trade.
• Dreadnought An early twentieth century class of battleship.
• Dromons are the precursors to galleys.
• East Indiaman An armed merchantman belonging to one of the East India companies (Dutch, British etc.)
• Fire ship A vessel of any sort, set on fire and sent into an anchorage with the aim of causing consternation and destruction. The idea is generally that of forcing an enemy fleet to put to sea in a confused, therefore vulnerable state.
• Galleass A sailing and rowing warship, equally well suited to sailing and rowing.
• Galleon A sixteenth century sailing warship.
• Galley A warship propelled by oars with a sail for use in a favourable wind.
• Galliot
• Ironclad A wooden warship with external iron plating.
• Knarr
• Liberty ship An American merchant ship of the late Second World War period, designed for rapid building in large numbers. (The earliest class of welded ships.)
• Longship An un-decked, clinker-built,double-ended, single-masted, square-rigged Scandinavian vessel of around 1000CE.
• Man of war A sailing warship.
• Monitor A small, very heavily gunned warship with shallow draft. Designed for land bombardment.
• Paddle steamer A steam-propelled, paddle-driven vessel, a name commonly applied to nineteenth century excursion steamers.
• Pantserschip A Dutch ironclad. By the end of the nineteenth century, the name was applied to a heavy gunboat designed for colonial service.
• Penteconter An ancient warship propelled by 50 oars, 25 on each side.
• Pram A small dinghy, originally of a clinker construction and called in English, as in Danish, a praam. The Danish orthography has changed so that it would now be a pråm in its original language. It has a transom at both ends, the forward one usually small and steeply raked in the traditional design.
• Q-ship A commerce raider camouflaged as a merchant vessel.
• Quinquereme An ancient warship propelled by three banks of oars. On the upper row three rowers hold one oar, on the middle row - two rowers, and on the lower row - one man to an oar.
• Schooner A fore and aft-rigged vessel with two or more masts of which the foremast is shorter than the main.
• Shallop A large, heavily built, sixteenth century boat. Fore and aft rigged. More recently it has been a poetically frail open boat.
• Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) A modern ship design used for Research Vessels and other purposes needing a steady ship in rough seas.
• Steamship A ship propelled by a steam engine.
• Ship of the line A sailing warship of first, second or third rate. That is, with 64 or more guns. Before the late eighteenth century, fourth rates (50-60 guns) also served in the line of battle.
• Torpedo boat A small, fast surface vessel designed for launching torpedoes.
• Tramp steamer A steamer which takes on cargo when and where it can find it.
• Trireme An ancient warship propelled by three banks of oars.
• Xebec
• Victory ship