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Three masted ships at one time were called the Great Ships, and marked transition in European seafaring from shallow coastal waters of the Age of Navigation confined primarily to the European shores and those of North Africa, via the Age of Discovery of other continents in relative proximity of Western Europe, to the " deep sea " oceanic sailing of the Age of Sail.
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Three masted ships appear in a fresco of Estella ( Navarre ), dating to the 12th century, seals preserved in the Navarrese and Parisian historical archives also show similar ships.
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* 1740 – War of Jenkin's Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.
Three famous clipper ships which can be seen as models are Comet, Snow Squall, and Flying Cloud.
Three are Lighter aboard ships ( LASH ) which carry barges called Lighters that contain Army ammunition to be ferried ashore: MV American Cormorant, SS Green Harbour, ( LASH ), SS Green Valley, ( LASH ), MV Jeb Stuart, ( LASH ).
Three large ships landed on the first day and 700 immigrants passed over the docks.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hood after several members of the Hood family, who were notable Navy officers:
Three US Naval ships have been named after this battle, including the USS Lake Champlain ( CV-39 ), the USS Lake Champlain ( CG-57 ), and a cargo ship used during World War I.
Three unidentified maritime prepositioning ships anchored off the coast of Saipan in June 2011
Three ships of the United States Navy:
Three ships named USS Enterprise are featured in the original Star Trek television series and the first through seventh Star Trek films.
Three ships named Enterprise are featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation and four TNG-era films.
Three ships of the US Navy have borne the name USS Reuben James.
Three Viking ships had beached in Portland Bay six years earlier, but that incursion may have been a trading expedition that went wrong rather than a piratical raid.
Three jibs were commonly used on Bermudian ships.
Three ships continued on, one of which was carrying Queen Joan of Sicily and Berengaria of Navarre, Richard's bride-to-be.
Three years later, his father having been discharged from service because of a navy reorganisation, they sailed together on their merchantman to Guinea, when they were attacked by seven ships of the English pirate Peter Easton.
Three of the eight remaining " big ships " were burnt: the Royal Oak, the new Loyal London and the Royal James.
Three ships of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Zulu, after the African Zulu people:
Three ships and a naval base of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nelson in honour of Horatio Nelson:
Three U. S. Navy ships have been named for the city.
Three hospital ships of the United States Navy have borne the name
Three more Portuguese ships barely fended off another attack in September, the same month that Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires arrived back at Canton.
Three ships of the German navy have been named in honour of Blücher.
Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Brooklyn, after the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Three light cruisers are still in existence as museum ships, and one is still used in active service by a navy-BAP Almirante Grau of the Peruvian Navy.
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Oregon, in honor of the Oregon Territory or the 33rd state.
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Would he meet him in Baltimore in Drawing Room A, Car Three on the train leaving Washington at nine o'clock next morning??
Three Union guards appeared, carrying their rifles at ready.
We quickly ran into the same trouble that plagued Bill Ruger in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well in a six-inch bull at 100 yards and then, unaccountably, one could stray far out of the group.
Three thermocouples were placed at different locations in the aluminum disk surrounding the anode holder to determine its temperature.
But at Yalta the conflicting expectations of East and West were merged into an agreement by the Big Three to assist all liberated countries in Europe `` to create democratic institutions of their own choice ''.
Three specimens for each sample to be tested are required in order to arrive at a satisfactory average of performance.
Three distances, each at least 18 inches, are measured and marked off parallel to each of the warp and filling directions.
The Corn Palace at Mitchell, S. Dak., `` the world's corniest building '', has a carnival through Sept. 23 headlining the Three Stooges and Pee Wee Hunt.
Three years later it was found in nature, although it is the least abundant element in the Earth's crust among the non-transuranic elements, with an estimated total amount of less than at any given time.
He is certainly retired at the time of Three Act Tragedy ( 1935 ) but he does not enjoy his retirement and comes repeatedly out of it thereafter when his curiosity is engaged.
He appeared again as Poirot in three made-for-television movies: Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), Dead Man's Folly ( 1986 ), and Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ).
Acts that have performed at Aberdour festival have been Yard Of Ale, Percy & The Peanuts, Swings & Roundabouts, Capercaillie, Boys of the Lough, Eddi Reader and The Fence Collective's Three Craws
Disraeli scored another diplomatic success at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, in preventing Bulgaria from gaining full independence, limiting the growing influence of Russia in the Balkans and breaking up the League of the Three Emperors.
" Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d ' Absinthe, about 15 km southeast of Bar-sur-Aube.
Three years later, Bernard was sent with a band of twelve monks to found a new house at Vallée d ' Absinthe, in the Diocese of Langres.
In the play, he is at first an ally to Macbeth ( both are generals in the King's army ) and they are together when they meet the Three Witches.
Three of them saw a soldier take deliberate aim at the youth as he ran.
The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.
The Three Character Classic begins with " People at birth are naturally good ( kind-hearted )", which stems from Mencius ' idea.
Three years before Davis ' lectures, Henry Edward Armstrong taught a degree course in chemical engineering at the City and Guilds of London Institute.
Claudius was born on 1 August 10 BC in Lugdunum to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia on the day of the dedication of the altar to Augustus at the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls.
Three years later the Addicks won the Division Three championship in 1929 and they remained at the Division Two level for four years.
Repeating crossbows, first mentioned in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, were discovered in 1986 in Tomb 47 at Qinjiazui, Hubei dated to around 4th century BC.
Three years later he was appointed Head of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the teaching hospitals of the University of Cape Town.
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