And the Ship Sails On (Italian: E la nave va) is a 1983 Italian film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. It depicts the events on board a luxury...
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variety of sail plans that propel sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged...
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sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles. Sails may be made from a combination of...
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full-rigged ship Full-rigged ship (mid-19th century—with one sail furled on mizzenmast) In light winds studding sails (pronounced "stunsls") may be carried on either...
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that did not carry sails. Sailing ships continued to be an economical way to transport bulk cargo on long voyages into the 1920s and 1930s, though steamships...
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that supports the rig. By extension, "sail plan" describes the arrangement of sails on a craft. A sailing craft may be waterborne (a ship or boat), an...
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known as rotor sails. German engineer Anton Flettner was the first to build a ship that attempted to tap this force for propulsion, and ships using his type...
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future a prince will carry her away on a ship with scarlet sails. Since then Assol has dreamt of this prophecy and the locals consider her insane. Gray's...
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My ship sails, also called my bird sings, is an English card game for children that is played with a 52-card French-suited pack in which the aim is to...
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USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) (redirect from Horst Wessel (ship))
Guard Academy's Superintendent. The ship's sails, masts, and other equipment were stripped from the Russian sister ship according to Command Master Chief...
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placed vertically on the vessel—and are beyond the scope of this article. Sails may be classified as either triangular, which describes sails that either come...
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historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used, excluding smaller vessels considered to be boats. The classifications...
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role in the film. She sails several times a year,[citation needed] often with the museum's other tall ships, the schooner Californian and the 1863 barque...
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Black Sails: The Ghost Ship is an adventure game developed by Deck 13 Interactive and originally published by Astragon Software on April 22, 2010 for Windows...
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sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on...
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promises the girl that one day a prince will come on a ship with scarlet sails to carry her away. The villagers scoff but Assol believes her dream will...
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Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip...
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either Java or Sumatra). The ships called K'un-lun po (or K'un-lun bo). He explains the ship's sail design as follows: The four sails do not face directly...
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Black Pearl (category Fictional ships)
screenplay, the ship is easily recognized by her distinctive black hull and sails. Captained by Captain Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa, the Black Pearl...
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versatile sails. Most smaller, modern vessels use the Bermuda rig. Author and master mariner Joseph Conrad (who spent 1874 to 1894 at sea in tall ships and was...
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Sky Princess (2019) (redirect from Sky Princess (ship))
ship currently operated by Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. She is the second ship in the cruise line's history to sail under...
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St. Lawrence II (category 1953 ships)
summer training cruises. The St. Lawrence II's home port is Kingston, Ontario. The ship sails mostly in the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, but...
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carry sails totaling 2,824 m2 (30,400 sq ft). The Amerigo Vespucci has 26 sails – square sails, staysails, and jibs: all are traditional canvas sails. When...
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Celebrity Constellation (redirect from Constellation (cruise ship))
the diesel. During the summer period the ship sails to the Mediterranean, repositioning to the Caribbean in the winter months. Celebrity Constellation...
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29, 2017 and concluded on April 2, 2017. During the course of the series, 38 episodes of Black Sails aired over four seasons. "Black Sails: Starz Series...
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has been suggested that they had sails some time before 2000 BCE.: 144 Their crab claw sails enabled them to sail for vast distances in open ocean....
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Sailing (redirect from Sail navigation)
craft and their rigs Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat...
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ship's sail. Shade sails use a flexible membrane tensioned between several anchor points. While generally installed permanently, they are cheap and easy...
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MSC Poesia (category Ships of MSC Cruises)
Greece and Turkey. Since 2010 the ship sails in Northern Europe during the summer season. On 6 June 2008, MSC Poesia and Costa Classica collided in the Adriatic...
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