The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution . n the case of a three-master, for instance,it was always set on the mizzen, and sometimes thesame kind of sail was on the mainmast and even theforemast. Amid the changes which in the flight oftime were made in big ships the lateen sail still re-mained on the mizzen or aftermost mast until theperiod of the eighteenth century. Of more or lesstriangular shape, it consisted of one yard and the saillaced thereto, so that a part projected ahead of themast to which it was attached. But now that project-ing part is cut off so as to make
The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution . n the case of a three-master, for instance,it was always set on the mizzen, and sometimes thesame kind of sail was on the mainmast and even theforemast. Amid the changes which in the flight oftime were made in big ships the lateen sail still re-mained on the mizzen or aftermost mast until theperiod of the eighteenth century. Of more or lesstriangular shape, it consisted of one yard and the saillaced thereto, so that a part projected ahead of themast to which it was attached. But now that project-ing part is cut off so as to make the sail four-sidedinstead of three, and to resemble those early mainsailswhich we spoke of just now as existing on the earlyfore-and-aft ships of the sixteenth century. Finally aboom is added to the sail, with sheets, and from thepeak vangs, or guy-ropes, which lead down to thestern. Thus we get practically the spanker or driverof the modern full-rigged ship. The new method of describing and discriminatingthe various types of naval vessels was according to 98. English and Dutch Warships of the Time of Charles II. Some of them were over fifteen hundred tons, and the English ships were rivalled bythe excellent vessels which the Dutch and French were then constructing. It was inCharles reign that the Dutch invaded the Medway and burned our ships. AND AFTER their rating—a first-rate, for instance, denoting a shipof a hundred guns and upwards, which she carried onthree decks. A second-rate also had three decks, andcarried from ninety to a hundred guns; third-rates hadbut two decks and from sixty-four to eighty-four guns;fourth-rates had from fifty to sixty guns, whilst fifth-rates had from thirty to forty-four guns, and sixth-ratescarried only twenty to thirty guns. Vast improvementshad taken place in the design and construction of theship. The towering forecastle and mammoth poops haddisappeared before the end of the eighteenth century;copper sheathing had been introduced f
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