What Is a Sailing Vessel?
A sailing vessel is a ship powered by the wind, using sails. The earliest sailing ships were reed craft used in Mesopotamia circa 5000 BC, and 2000 years later, wooden...
Read MoreA sailing vessel is a ship powered by the wind, using sails. The earliest sailing ships were reed craft used in Mesopotamia circa 5000 BC, and 2000 years later, wooden...
Read MoreWhat Is an Icebreaker? Icebreaker is a ship which is specially shaped and strengthened so that it can cut through ice-fields which would stop or crush an ordinary...
Read MoreWhen Are People Buried at Sea? Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship or boat. Although burials at sea are much less common...
Read MoreWhere Is the Quarterdeck of a Ship? The quarterdeck, as its name implies, is only part of a deck. In a sailing vessel it is that portion of the upper deck between the...
Read MoreWhy Do We Become Sea-sick? We become sea-sick because our balancing organs, the labyrinthine portions of the inner ear, are disturbed by out-of-level movements, by...
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