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Packet, packet boat, or packet ship
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
1. originally, a vessel employed to carry post office mail packets to and from british embassies, colonies and outposts.
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Pinnace, английский
- 1. pinnace (ship`s boat), a small, light boat propelled by oars or a sail, used as a tender to larger vessels during the age of sail.
- A small vessel propelled with oars and sails, of two, and even three masts, schooner-rigged. in size, as a ship`s boat, smaller than the barge, and, like it, carvel-built. the armed pinnace of the french coasts was of 60 or 80 tons burden, carrying one long 24-pounder and 100 men. in henry vi. shakspeare makes the pinnace an independent vessel, though falstaff uses it as a small vessel attending on a larger. also, metaphorically, an indifferent character.
- [1] lugsail or schooner-rigged, eightoared, ship’s boat. [2] formerly a small galleon-type warship. [3] coal-fired powerboat, known as a “steam pinnace.”
Broadside, английский
- 1. one side of a vessel above the waterline.
- Непродольный профиль
- The whole array, or the simultaneous discharge of the artillery on one side of a ship of war above and below. it also implies the whole of that side of a ship above the water which is situate between the bow and quarter, and is in a position nearly perpendicular to the horizon. also, a name given to the old folio sheets whereon ballads and proclamations were printed of old (broad-sheet).
- [1] the side of a ship, above the water between bow and stern. [2] all the guns on one side of a ship. [3] their simultaneous firing. [4] the weight of shot then fired. see also naval tactics in the age of sail.
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