This transportation ClipArt gallery offers 222 images of wind-powered ships, which move by using the wind that blows against the sails of the ship.
"Railway, with single traveler in detail. Nautical, iron jackstays bolted on the under side of standing…
The ship is pictured as it looked shortly after being unearthed. The tent-like structure at the back…
Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th century Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New…
"This ship lies besides the wharf at Ostia. In the afterpart of the vessel is a cabin with two windows.…
Royal Savage, a two-masted schooner, was damaged and sunk by American forces under Richard Montgomery…
"Hawser-rudder. a, hawser; bb, hauling-lines, leading through chocks on each quarter." -Whitney, 1911
"Running-part. Naut., that part of a rope which is hauled upon is called the hauling-part (b), the part…
"Cross-cut-sail, a sail in which the canvas seams run fore-and-aft instead of up and down." -Whitney,…
"Shadow-sail, a sail designed to take the place of he regular jib-headed spinnaker ... a, shadow-sail;…
"A fore-and-aft sail, bent to the mast at the weather leech, and having the after peak stretched by…
A junk is a Chinese sailing vessel. The English name comes from Javanese jong (Malay: adjong), meaning…
A double mast vessel known as a ketch. Meant to be used as a fishing boat but could also be used for…
One of a fleet of sailing vessels. Smaller boats are seen either coming from or going to the ship.
First used by the Dutch in the 16th and 17th centuries and later refined in North America from the early…
An image of a wind-powered sailboat. This sort of sailboat was developed in the 19th century for faster…
A certain portion of a sail between the top or bottom and a row of eyelet-holes running across the sail,…
A piece of cloth or tissue of some kind spread to the wind to impel or assist in impelling a vessel…
The Confederate privateers were privately owned ships that were authorized by the government of the…
"A small sail set under another, or between two other sails, to catch or save the wind." —Whitney,…
A sailing vessel with two or three masts. Vessels of this class are built for fast sailing and are provided…
"A vessel with two or more masts, fore and aft rigged, whose main and fore sails are extended by gaffs…
A small fast-sailing sharp-built vessel with two mass, and the principals sails of the fore-and aft…
"Settee. A vessel with one deck and a very long sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen…
The Shannon and Chesapeake entering the harbor of Halifax in 1813.
"Abox- in or into the position of the yards of a vessel when the head-sails are laid aback: applied…
The name applied in a restricted sense to a large vessel with bowsprit and three masts, each of which…
A sailing vessel with numbered sails: "1. Flying jib, 2. Jib, 3. Fore staysail, 4. Foresail, 5. Fore…