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- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Strike (hist) [557 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.). </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. To surrender the vessel to the enemy, from "strike the c...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Storeship (hist) [572 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also store ship or stores ship. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. During the Age of Sail and immediately afterwards, a captured ship used...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Stay (hist) [974 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A strong rope supporting a mast and leading from the head of one mast down to some other mast or other part of the vessel; any rigging running fore...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Station (hist) [720 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. In chiefly 19th- and early 20th-century usage, a naval formation under a commander-in-chief who controls all naval operations, and sometimes all na...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Stack (hist) [184 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also funnel. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. Another name for a funnel. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. Deck cargo....")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Squadron (hist) [1,330 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. In general, any significant group of warships considered too small to be a fleet, but otherwise not strictly defined by size. In some navies, the t...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Spritsail (hist) [304 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A fore-and-aft sail, where the peak is supported by a sprit. It may be free-footed or use a boom. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. A...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Sloop-of-war (hist) [648 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. In the 18th and 19th centuries, a small sailing warship carried 18 or fewer guns with a single continuous gundeck. </span><br/> <span class="...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Slip (hist) [1,416 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. To let go a rope at a precise moment, such as when releasing the last attachment to a buoy, when getting underway. </span><br/> <span class="...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Shipwreck (hist) [314 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. The remains of a ship that has sunk. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. The remains of a ship that has run aground such that she is no...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Ship graveyard (hist) [452 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also called a ship cemetery. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. A location where the hulls of discarded ships are left to decay and disint...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Ship (hist) [1,110 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. (n.) Strictly, a sailing vessel of three-masts or more and square-rigged on all masts. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. (n.) More gen...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Sea (hist) [498 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. The ocean. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. A body of salt water smaller than an ocean and generally forming part of, or connecting w...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Scull (hist) [741 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. (v.) In sport or recreational rowing, especially on inland water, to propel a boat by oars, where each of one or several persons uses two oars, one...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Scow (hist) [479 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A method of preparing an anchor for tripping by attaching an anchor cable to the crown and fixing to the ring by a light seizing (also known as bec...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Sail (hist) [965 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A piece of fabric attached to a vessel and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the vessel along. Sails are typically attached to the ves...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Rummage (hist) [595 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also romage. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a vessel. </span><br/> <span class="c7">...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Row (hist) [635 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. (in general speech) to propel a boat with oars </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. (more precisely, as used at sea) to propel a boat wit...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Rope yarn (hist) [1,142 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A period, traditionally on Wednesday afternoons, when a tailor boarded a sailing warship while the vessel was in port; the crew was excused from mo...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Reefer ship (hist) [263 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also simply reefer. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. A refrigerated cargo ship used to carry perishable goods that require refrigeration...")