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91Canoe — A canoe is a small narrow boat, typically human powered, though it may also be powered by sails or small electric or gas motors. Canoes usually are pointed at both bow and stern and are normally open on top, but can be covered. In its human… …
92Matériaux à voile — Une voile est fabriquée depuis la nuit des temps à partir de fibre. Les matériaux traditionnels d une voile sont des fibres naturelles comme le lin, le chanvre ou le coton qui une fois tissées forment un tissu[1]. Néanmoins, les voiles modernes… …
93naval ship — Introduction the chief instrument by which a nation extends its military power onto the seas. Warships protect the movement over water of military forces to coastal areas where they may be landed and used against enemy forces; warships… …
94SS Great Eastern — The SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. She was the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers around the world without refueling. Her… …
95Line-crossing ceremony — U.S. Sailors and Marines participate in a line crossing ceremony aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) as the ship passes the Equator May 16, 2008. It has been a long naval tradition to initiate pollywogs, sailors who have never crossed the Equator,… …
96Naval artillery in the Age of Sail — The cannon shot (c. 1680), painted by Willem van de Velde the Younger Naval artillery in the Age of Sail encompasses the period of roughly 1571 1863: when large, sail powered wooden naval warships dominated the high seas, mounting a bewildering… …
97Sneakbox — A sneakbox is a small boat that can be sailed, rowed, poled or sculled. It is predominantly associated with the Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, just as the canoe like Delaware Ducker is associated with the New Jersey marshes along the Delaware River… …
98The Last Grain Race — is a 1956 book by Eric Newby, a travel writer, about his time spent on the Moshulu s last voyage in the Australian grain trade. Background to the book In 1938 Eric Newby, at the age of eighteen, signed on as an apprentice of the four masted… …
99Dundonald (ship) — Four masted barque DUNDONALD of Kerr Newton and Co Painting The Dundonald was a steel, four masted barque of 2205 tons, which was launched in Belfast in 1891. She was shipwrecked in 1907 in the New Zealand Sub Antarctic Islands. 15 of the 28 crew …
100technology, history of — Introduction the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …
