The Age of Sail is a period in European history that lasted at the latest from the mid-16th (or mid-15th) to the mid-19th centuries, in which the dominance...

had to discover the pattern of winds and currents that would carry them where they wanted to go. During the Age of Sail winds and currents determined...

Age of Sail II (Russian: Век Парусников II) is a 2001 computer wargame developed by Akella. It is the sequel to Age of Sail. It has similar historically...

Naval artillery in the Age of Sail encompasses the period of roughly 1571–1862: when large, sail-powered wooden naval warships dominated the high seas...

Age of Sail is a 1996 naval combat computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. The game covered the naval campaigns of the French Revolutionary...

London, 1987; Nov, 1989, "Introducing the Carronade". Age Of Sail · Life at sea during the age of wooden ships and iron men. 22 February 2009. Archived...

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail. It was a...

Sail plans A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel. There is a variety...

Warships in the Age of Sail is a series of four books by maritime historian Rif Winfield comprising a historical reference work providing details of all recorded...

The Age of Sail Heritage Centre (also known as the Age of Sail Heritage Museum) is a museum and heritage centre at Port Greville, Nova Scotia, Canada....

aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward. On a square-rigged ship, any of the square...

technology has changed. In the age of sail, especially for warships, an important role was the collection of drinking water. The use of radio, followed by telex...

means of decisive victory. Naval tactics in the Age of Sail were primarily determined by the sailing and fighting qualities of the sailing warships of the...

hardest-worked of warship types during the Age of Sail. While smaller than a ship-of-the-line, they were formidable opponents for the large numbers of sloops...

route was important during the Age of Sail, but became partly obsolete as the Suez Canal opened in 1869. Scholars of classical antiquity disagreed whether...

18th centuries during the Age of Sail and were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-17th century. Galleons...

during the Age of Sail was generally understood as a ship that conformed to the Royal Navy's rating system of a ship of the line as being of the first...

names of the smaller warships from the age of sail, such as corvette, sloop and frigate. A seaplane tender is a ship that supports the operation of seaplanes...

of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular, or square, to the keel of...

sailing warships of the Age of Sail. Sail was slowly replaced by steam as the method of propulsion for ships over the latter part of the 19th century...

pressure of crosswind, the lee side will be the "lower side". During the Age of Sail, the term weather was used as a synonym for windward in some contexts...

to deploy sail and resist compressive and bending forces, as well as the bowsprit and spinnaker pole. In larger vessels during the age of sail, spare spars...

Age of Sail is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1974 that simulates naval combat in the 18th and 19th century Age of...

During the Age of Sail many merchant ships were named Ganges, after the Ganges river in India. Ganges (1792 ship), made one voyage as an East Indiaman...

A studding sail, or stun'sl (pronounced stuns'l /ˈstʌnsəl/) is an extra sail on a square rigged vessel for use in fair weather. It is set outside the...

European "Age of Sail" is the period in which international trade and naval warfare were both dominated by sailing ships. The age of sail mostly coincided...

separatists' motivating factors to sail for the New World, which would have the added benefit of being beyond the reach of King James and his bishops. Their...

the wind or point of sail. On points of sail where it is possible to align the leading edge of the sail with the apparent wind, the sail may act as an airfoil...

Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and...

that sailed in convoys. Many naval battles in the Age of Sail were fought around convoys, including: The Battle of Portland (1653) The Battle of Ushant...