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HMS Pegasus (1776) 16 Jul 2013 | 11:56 pm
HMS Pegasus was a 14 gun ship sloop of the Swan class, launched on 27 December 1776. She was commissioned the same month under Commander John Hamilton Gore and - after completing on 3 March 1777 - sai...
San Juan Bautista 1 Mar 2013 | 01:08 pm
San Juan Bautista Replica of the Japanese-built 1613 galleon San Juan Bautista, in Ishinomaki, Japan. Career Name: San Juan Bautista Builder: Date Masamune Laid down: 1613 Launched: ...
Ship Model Plans 26 Mar 2011 | 06:26 am
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HMS Leopard 1790 16 Oct 2010 | 08:53 am
HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812. Construction and commissioning She was fir...
Galeon Rother Löwe 1597 5 Jul 2010 | 02:19 pm
The first "Red Lion" was a Galleon which was built in the Netherlands 1597.. George William was the father of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Prussia, the later "Great Kurfüsten (geb.1620, governme...
HMS Endeavour 1764 31 May 2010 | 04:10 am
HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 to ...
Greek Bireme 28 May 2010 | 11:54 pm
A bireme is an ancient Hellenistic-era warship with two decks of oars, probably invented by the Phoenicians. It typically was about 80 feet (24 m) long with a maximum beam length of around 10 feet (3....
USS Constitution 1794 27 May 2010 | 06:15 am
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's old...
A Roman Bireme 27 Apr 2010 | 06:27 am
A Roman bireme - From helenistic Era The generic Roman term for an oar-driven galley warship was "long ship" (Latin: navis longa, Greek: naus makra), as opposed to the sail-driven navis oneraria, a m...
Mayflower 1620 27 Apr 2010 | 04:51 am
The Mayflower was the ship that transported the English Separatists, better known as the Pilgrims, from a site near the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, (which would b...
