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was and wooden-hulled
* was a wooden-hulled screw sloop launched in 1862 and sold to China later that year.
*, launched in 1846, was a wooden-hulled screw frigate.
* The fourth Myrmidon was a wooden-hulled screw gun vessel, launched in June 1867 but completed in October as a survey vessel, and sold in 1889.
* The third Narcissus was a wooden-hulled screw frigate in service from 1859 to 1883.
* HMS Tiger was a wooden-hulled paddle sloop launched in 1849, reclassified as a frigate in 1852, and captured by the Russians in 1854, becoming Tigr.
* HMS Shannon was a wooden-hulled screw frigate launched in 1855 and sold in 1871.
* was a wooden-hulled paddle frigate launched in 1850.
* was a wooden-hulled paddle sloop launched in 1849 and broken up in 1881.
* The third Highflyer was a wooden-hulled screw frigate launched in 1851 and broken up 1871.
The Italian fleet, commanded by Admiral Persano, mustered 12 ironclad and 17 wooden-hulled ships, though only one, the Affondatore, was of the most modern turret ship design.
This was for safety reasons, to avoid the risk of fire to wooden-hulled sailing vessels then using the other docks.
* The eighth Leopard was a wooden-hulled paddle frigate, launched 1850 and sold 1867.
The Arthur Foss, one of the oldest wooden-hulled tugboats afloat in the United States, was cast by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio to play in this production.
*, a wooden-hulled, screw sloop-of-war, was commissioned as Kenosha and served just after the American Civil War
* USS Water Witch ( 1851 ) was a wooden-hulled, sidewheel gunboat, launched in 1851.
The RCS Nimanoa was a wooden-hulled ketch, whereas Saidu Maru was a steel-hulled vessel, part of which is still visible on the reef off Red Beach.

was and steam
This voyage was the first successful crossing of the Atlantic under steam propulsion.
The `` leapfrog '' was a phenomenon of the railroad and the steam turbine, and the time when the belts of residence surrounding the old factory area were not yet blighted.
The official winners were Peugeot and Panhard as cars were judged on their speed, handling and safety characteristics, and De Dion's steam car needed a stoker which was forbidden.
This change was pushed forward by the development of heavier naval guns ( the ironclads of the 1880s carried some of the heaviest guns ever mounted at sea ), more sophisticated steam engines, and advances in metallurgy which made steel shipbuilding possible.
This coal was valuable for steam railways and steam ships, and an export trade began, via the Taff Vale Railway and the port of Cardiff.
The first water caterpillar was developed by Desblancs in 1782 and propelled by a steam engine.
The steam clipper was developed around this time, and had auxiliary steam engines which could be used in the absence of wind.
However the rope available at the time proved too susceptible to wear and the system was abandoned in favour of steam locomotives after eight years.
The line was closed and rebuilt, and reopened with steam locomotives.
In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.
The British A4 class steam locomotive No. 4496 ( renumbered 60008 ) Golden Shuttle was renamed Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1946.
From 1881 through 1888 Diego Garcia was the location of two coaling stations for steam ships crossing the Indian Ocean.
The first was the introduction of the steam turbine.
Alexandra was a three-masted sailing ship with auxiliary steam power, and despite remaining flagship was already outdated in a navy which was steadily transitioning from sail to steam.
This steam locomotive dating from the 1930s still operates, carrying both freight and tourists. As of 1999, there was a total of 317 kilometres of ( narrow gauge ) rail line in Eritrea.
Before central power stations were widely introduced it was common for industries, large hotels and commercial buildings to generate their own power and use low pressure exhaust steam for heating.
The term motor was originally used to distinguish the new internal combustion engine-powered vehicles from earlier vehicles powered by steam engines, such as the steam roller and motor roller, but may be used to refer to any engine.

was and yacht
A pleasure yacht was found adrift in the Atlantic south of Bermuda on September 26, 1955 ; it is usually stated in the stories ( Berlitz, Winer ) that the crew vanished while the yacht survived being at sea during three hurricanes.
In 1979 Mountbatten was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), who planted a bomb in his yacht, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.
In 1972 the yacht Vega, a ketch owned by David McTaggart, was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear protest into the exclusion zone at Moruroa to attempt to disrupt French nuclear testing.
In 2010, a letter from a steward ( thought to be Jim Richardson ) on the Nahlin steam yacht was discovered.
In 1978, 101 years after catamarans like Amaryllis were banned from any and all forms of yacht racing history was to prove them right.
In May 1625 she was in good spirits and insisted on accompanying her husband on the royal yacht to review the fleet.
While Massera was not injured, the yacht was badly damaged by the explosives.
Also named after him are the hamlets of Stuyvesant and Stuyvesant Falls in Columbia County, New York, where descendants of the early Dutch settlers still live and where the Dutch Reformed Church remains an important part of the community, as well as shopping centers, yacht clubs and other buildings and facilities throughout the area where the Dutch colony once was.
* The Glen Strathallan luxury steam yacht was scuttled near the Shagstone as a site for scuba diving.
The opening was performed by Khedive Ismail of Egypt and Sudan, and at Ismail's invitation French Empress Eugenie in the Imperial yacht Aigle, piloted by Napolean Coste who was bestowed by the Khedive the Order of the Medjidie ( Blue Flame of Service c 1955 ).
The first ship to follow the yacht Aigle through the canal was the British P & O liner Delta.
Sometimes regarded as an act of terrorism, was the peace-time sabotage of the Rainbow Warrior, a yacht owned by Greenpeace, which occurred while in port at Auckland, New Zealand on July 10, 1985.
*, a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish-American War
* motor yacht ( 1917 – 1919 ), the sixth ship to bear this name, was non-commissioned, serving in the Second Naval District during World War I
) Chapman was also rewarded with 110, 000 Reichsmark and his own yacht.
Even 20 years ago, it was not common for a 25-feet ( 7 m ) yacht to have electric lighting.
In 2010, the Tûranor PlanetSolar, a 35 metre long, 26 metre wide catamaran yacht powered by 537 square metres of solar panels, was unveiled.
Although he and the very-private Rogers openly became visible to the public as friends, and Washington was a frequent guest at Rogers ' New York office, his Fairhaven, Massachusetts summer home, and aboard his steam yacht Kanawha, the true depth and scope of their relationship was not publicly revealed until after Rogers ' sudden death of an stroke in May 1909.
Margaret's corsage was designed by Norman Hartnell, and the honeymoon was spent aboard the royal yacht Britannia on a six-week Caribbean cruise.
Jørgen Iversen Dyppel, a successful trader on Saint Christopher, was made governor and the king provided convicts from his jails and two vessels for the establishment of the colony, the yacht Den forgyldte KroneMarcussen, Jørgen.

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