In the age of sail, a " ship " was a sailing vessel with at least three square-rigged masts and a full bowsprit ; other types of vessel were also defined by their sailplan, e. g. barque, brigantine, etc.

* Ponape ( barque ), a German sailing ship

* Clio ( barque ), a 19th century sailing ship

The results were immediate and, by 1848, three wooden sailing vessels called " barks " or " barque " ( small three-masted sailing ships ), the Libra, the Maria Magdalena and the America, had been booked for passage to the east coast of the United States.

A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.

The Sydney Heritage Fleet restored an iron-hulled three-masted barque, the James Craig, originally constructed as " Clan Macleod " in 1874 and sailing at sea fortnightly.

The oldest active sailing vessel in the world, the Star of India, was built in 1863 as a full-rigged ship, then converted into a barque in 1901.

* James Craig ( barque ), sailing vessel

* Kings County ( barque ), a large sailing vessel named after Kings County, Nova Scotia

* Hamburg ( barque ) ( 1886 ), a Canadian sailing barque

* Parma ( barque ), a sailing ship built in 1902 and scrapped in 1938

Permanent settlement on Lord Howe was established in June 1834 when the British whaling barque Caroline, sailing from New Zealand and commanded by Captain John Blinkenthorpe, landed at what is now known as Blinky Beach.

* Viking ( barque ), a Danish sailing ship, now used as a hotel

He was first given the Helgoland, but in February 1917, when he was 34 years old, he was put in command of the Prize, a German sailing barque seized in 1914 and now employed as a lure against submarines.

In 1889 Charles Lightoller, who was later to become famous as the Second Officer of the RMS Titanic, was shipwrecked here for eight days when the sailing barque Holt Hill ran aground.

Deck hatch of the Omega ( barque ) | Omega, the last square rig | square-rigged sailing cargo ship

Shipbuilding culminated in the 1885s with the construction of the four masted barque John M. Blaikie, which along with the barque Kings County built across the Minas Basin, was one of only two four masted barques ever built in Canada and among the largest wooden sailing vessels built in Canada.

Shortly after his twentieth birthday, he bought a sailing ship, the barque Willowbank, which he employed in the coasting trade.

* Adamant, an iron barque ( sailing ship ) that brought immigrants to New Zealand in the late 19th century

He took an apprenticeship with the shipping company Steele & Co and was sent to learn his trade on the sailing barque Kirkhill.

His mother, who had seen little of him for four years, appeared worried about his sailing off by himself for an Orient which, she herself having slight knowledge of it, had to be distrusted.

Historically, it was of particular relevance to sailing warships which used them to outmaneuver opponents when the wind had dropped but might be used by any vessel in confined, shoal water to place it in a more desirable position, provided she had enough manpower.

On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as Agamemnon had done before the Trojan expedition, but the Thebans intervened to prevent it, an insult for which he never forgave them.

The clipper route, which is the fastest sailing route around the world, follows the ACC around three continental capes-Cape Agulhas ( Africa ), South East Cape ( Australia ) and Cape Horn ( South America ).

Shanty repertoire borrowed from the contemporary popular music enjoyed by sailors, including minstrel music, popular marches, and land-based folk songs, which were adapted to suit musical forms matching the various labor tasks required to operate a sailing ship.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Every year since 1972 the BVI has hosted the Spring Regatta, which is a seven-day collection of sailing races throughout the islands.

In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's speculative proposal, to reach the East Indies by sailing westward, eventually received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a promise, however remote, of gaining the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia.

The final blow was the Suez Canal, opened in 1869, which provided a great shortcut for steamships between Europe and Asia, but was difficult for sailing ships to use.

An alternative for those people may however be sailing near the coast, which still gives a certain amount of safety.

The port was used as the sailing point for the Crusades of 1147 and 1190, and a creek close to Dartmouth Castle is supposed by some to be named for the vast fleets which assembled there ( Warfleet Creek ).

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.

Drake also discovered news of another ship, Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, which was sailing west towards Manila.

* It has Jesus sailing across the Sea of Galilee to Nazareth – which is actually inland ; and from thence going " up " to Capernaum – which is actually on the lakeside ( chapters 20-21 ); though this is contested by Blackhirst, who says that the traditional location of Nazareth is itself questionable.

The Majorities of town near the coastal of Haiti are also accessible by the small sailing boat which is preferable and cheaper to many passengers.

In some area sailing boat is more available for the commute than public transportation, which usually is on the back of a Truck load withmerchandise and passengers that rarely come to those areas except when it ’ s the Public market day.

After 1860 the Clydeside shipyards specialised in steamships made of iron ( after 1870, made of steel ), which rapidly replaced the wooden sailing vessels of both the merchant fleets and the battle fleets of the world.

The Babylonians developed a system which was recorded in the famous Code of Hammurabi, c. 1750 BC, and practised by early Mediterranean sailing merchants.

Ordered by God to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it " for their great wickedness is come up before me ," Jonah seeks instead to flee from " the presence of the Lord " by going to Jaffa and sailing to Tarshish, which, geographically, is in the opposite direction.

The more popularly accepted date for the Viking raid on Lindisfarne is 8 June ; Michael Swanton, editor of Routledge's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, writes " vi id Ianr, presumably an error for vi id Iun ( June 8 ) which is the date given by the Annals of Lindisfarne ( p. 505 ), when better sailing weather would favour coastal raids.

The final sailing of the Rangatira, which was custom built and entered service in 1972, was on 15 September 1976, after two money losing years ( subsidised by the NZ government ).

A year later Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, sailing south and eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the Chagres River and Porto Belo ( Beautiful Port ) which he named.

Some high-performance boats are capable of traveling faster than the true windspeed on some points of sail, see for example the Hydroptère, which set a world speed record in 2009 by sailing 1. 71 times the speed of the wind.

* close to 90 ° for square riggers and similar vessels due to the sail shape which is very ineffective when sailing upwind