• "Wooden Ships" is a song written and composed by David Crosby, Paul Kantner, and Stephen Stills and recorded both by Crosby, Stills & Nash and by Kantner...
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    world's longest wooden ships. The vessels are sorted by ship length including bowsprit, if known. Finding the world's longest wooden ship is not straightforward...
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    defense, research and fishing. Ships are generally distinguished from boats, based on size, shape, load capacity and purpose. Ships have supported exploration...
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  • about the battle of Lissa «Wooden ships commanded by men with iron heads defeated iron ships commanded by men with wooden heads», with which he wanted...
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    Wooden ship models or wooden model ships are scale representations of ships, constructed mainly of wood. This type of model has been built for over two...
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    1862 during the American Civil War, when ironclads operated against wooden ships and, in a historic confrontation, against each other at the Battle of...
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    functional ships. Wooden ships were often hulked when the hull structure became too old and weak to withstand the stresses of sailing. More recently, ships have...
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    yachts by length Timeline of largest passenger ships List of longest wooden ships List of largest ships by gross tonnage Suezmax Panamax Malaccamax Baltimax...
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  • violent...and young") and the joint Crosby/Kantner/Stills composition "Wooden Ships" which describes the struggle for survival in the aftermath of a nuclear...
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    with minor wooden ships. The attacking Austrian fleet was also split into three divisions. The 1st Division consisted of the armoured ships, while the...
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    most forward part of a boat or ship's bow and is an extension of the keel itself. It is often found on wooden boats or ships, but not exclusively. The stem...
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    officials considered the ships worthwhile if the ships could make a single, successful one-way voyage to the war. Still, the wooden ship program was so controversial...
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    were used to great effect against wooden ships throughout naval military history up until the advent of metal-hulled ships; they could also serve a considerable...
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    the early 15th-century Ming dynasty. The size of the treasure ships, the largest ships in Zheng He's fleet, has been a subject of much controversy, with...
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  • "Helplessly Hoping", "Long Time Gone", "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", and "Wooden Ships", a collaboration between Crosby and Stills as well as Paul Kantner of...
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  • Lists of ships include: Lists of cargo ships List of civilian nuclear ships List of classic vessels List of cruise ships Lists of Empire ships List of...
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    disposal of the Nyhavn Society and privately owned, still usable wooden ships. Harbor ships include: Lightvessel XVII Gedser Rev – lightvessel built in Odense...
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    II. Combatant nations quickly adapted ships to the task of minesweeping, including Australia's 35 civilian ships that became auxiliary minesweepers. Both...
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  • Vu" and "Helpless"; organ on "Wooden Ships", "Woodstock", and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"; bass on "Déjà Vu", "Wooden Ships", "Teach Your Children", and "Suite:...
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  • Ship's carpenter is a post aboard ships, both naval and commercial, responsible for the maintenance and repair of the ship's wooden parts, as well as...
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    mediocre, which meant that the thick hulls of wooden ships could only be pierced at short ranges. These wooden ships sailed closer and closer towards each other...
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    The Nemi ships were two ships, of different sizes, built under the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD on Lake Nemi. Although the...
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     1425–1435). According to legend, Zheng's largest ships were almost twice as long as any wooden ship ever recorded, and carried hundreds of sailors on...
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    APc transport ships: Net laying boats of World War II built with wooden hulls were the Ailanthus-class net laying ships. The bow of the ship has a specialized...
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    led to the construction of screw-driven wooden-hulled ships of the line; a number of purely sail-powered ships were converted to this propulsion mechanism...
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    that could be fired by a smoothbore cannon, used to batter the wooden hulls of opposing ships, fortifications, or fixed emplacements, and as a long-range...
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    Wooden Shjips (pronounced "ships") is an American experimental and psychedelic rock band from San Francisco, California. The project has released one EP...
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    from shore, dropped dunnage or lost cargo from ships (jetsam), and the remains of shipwrecked wooden ships and boats (flotsam). Erosion and wave action...
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    vessel's carpenter's walk to examine the hull for leaks. Shipwright builds wooden ships on land. Japanese carpentry, daiku is the simple term for carpenter,...
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  • Storm, and Looking Forward). David Crosby – vocals; rhythm guitar on "Wooden Ships" and "Long Time Gone"; acoustic guitar on "Just A Song Before I Go" and...
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