"sailing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Gaillards, a naval term for the forecastle and quarterdeck (together) on a sailing warship.
- The sailing warship was immensely powerful on its sides, but very weak on its bow and stern.
- Originally the gunwale was the "gun ridge" on a sailing warship.
- Goodwin "is widely acknowledged as one of the leading writers on the sailing warship".
- "How goes the construction of the three sailing warships?"
- She therefore carried a full square rig on three masts, in common with large sailing warships of the period.
- Ship of the line - a sailing warship capable of standing in the line of battle.
- It comprised five large sailing warships, 31 armed merchantment, two galleasses, 12 galleys and 48 small vessels.
- This battle is believed to be unique, marking the only occasion in which a sailing warship engaged and fought a war steamer to a draw.
- The term "corvette" was originally a French name for a small sailing warship, intermediate between the frigate and the sloop-of-war.
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