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Vibrating lever. four and also acted as a giant ventilating shaft. boilers; 1400hp Momtor arnved at Hampton Roads on Armament: four 381mm (15in) guns up of two halves, one on top of the other. 5in) furnaces. crew quarters and bunkers; the two large Union wooden-hulled fngates Speed: 9 knots larger upper hull overlapped the lower, and fought a drawn battle. Momtor served Range: not known Complement: 150 66 SHIPS Banshee Built for speed alone, the Banshee March 1863. 2m x 3m trader than as a blockade runner for blockade imposed by the Union Navy on (214ft x 20ft 3in x 10ft) the Confederacy during the American the ports of the Confederacy, carrying in Machinery: sidewheels, two-cylinder Civil War.

The of the Mediterranean favoured oared vessels, they were still being built in substantial numbers into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 6m (12ft) Displacement: not known RIgging: three masts; lateen-rigged Armament: 20 guns, plus 20-30 light swivel cannon Complement: 350 oarsmen, 40 gunners, 30 seamen, plus soldiers SHIPS 33 Dutch frigate Like so many other older ship terms, Both the Dutch and the English were was not in the Ime of battle, however, but 'frigate' was not used with precision: building ships of this type from the mid- as an escort vessel or~ more often, as a swift its conventional seventeenth-century seventeenth century.

A succession of state a floatmg battery by the Austro-Hungarian in the re-enactment of Venice's barges bore the name BUCtntOTO, which navy and was finally broken up in 1824. symbolic marriage with the sea. means 'man-ox', probably refernng to the first craft's figurehead. ' an end. At the orders of Napoleon, the A ring, blessed by the Patnarch of Venice, barge's ornamentation was stripped and SHIPS 37 Boston Considering the lack of a naval The Boston was the first frigate to be built along the American coast, although prior building tradition in the North in the American colonies; she was laid to 1776 the products were chiefly American colonies, the construction down at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in merchant vessels.

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