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Advice Boat

There are no Advice Boat's listed in Threedecks.

A small vessel employed to carry expresses or orders with all possible dispatch

Armed Ship

There are currently 6 Armed Ship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A ship, usually a hired merchant vessel, lightly armed for protective purposes only.

Armed Storeship

There are currently 14 Armed Storeship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A vessel armed for protection and used to carry supplys for a fleet or squadron

Armed Troopship

There is currently 1 Armed Troopship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

A vessel armed for protection and used for the transportation of soldiers

Armed vessel

There are currently 20 Armed vessel's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

An general classification used for a ship which dosn\'t fall neatly within a more specific category

Aviso

There are currently 5 Aviso's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A small vessel employed to carry expresses or orders with all possible dispatch

See advice boat

Ballinger

There are currently 3 Ballinger's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Barge

There are currently 3 Barge's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Bark

There are currently 8 Bark's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A general name given to small ships: it is however peculiarly appropriated by seamen to those which carry three masts without a mizen top-sail. Our northern mariners, who are trained in the coal-trade, apply this distinction to a broad-sterned ship, which carries no ornamental figure on the stem or prow.

Barque Longue

There are currently 12 Barque Longue's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Also Barca-Longa

A large Spanish tithing-boat, navigated with lug-sails, and having two or three masts: these are very common in the Mediterranean.

Barques latines

There are currently 4 Barques latines's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Assumed to be a fore and aft rigged vessel, otherwise similar in purpose and size to a Barques Longue. (This needs to be confirmed)

Block Sloop

There is currently 1 Block Sloop listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Blockship

There is currently 1 Blockship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Boat

There are currently 2 Boat's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Boejers

There are currently 3 Boejers's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Danish vessel type?

Bomb Tender

There are currently 6 Bomb Tender's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A small ship used to carry ammunition and supplies for a bomb vessel. These vessels also usually provided accomodaiton for the Royal Artillery gun-crews used to fire the mortars.

Bomb Vessel

There are currently 180 Bomb Vessel's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A small ship particularly calculated to throw shells into a fortress. They are said to be invented by M. Reyneau, and to have been first put in action at the bombardment of Algiers. Till then it had been judged impraticable to bombard a place from the sea.

Brig

There are currently 548 Brig's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Brig-Aviso

There are currently 7 Brig-Aviso's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Brig-Corvette

There are currently 11 Brig-Corvette's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Brig-Sloop

There are currently 706 Brig-Sloop's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Brigantine

There are currently 134 Brigantine's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Buoy Boat

There is currently 1 Buoy Boat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Buss

There are no Buss's listed in Threedecks.

Smallish two masted vessels with simple square sails. Used by the English and Dutch herring fishing industry

Caravel

There are currently 8 Caravel's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean. The lateen sails gave her speed and the capacity for sailing to windward (beating). Caravels were much used by the Portuguese for the oceanic exploration voyages during the 15th and 16th centuries in the age of discovery.

Careening Hulk

There is currently 1 Careening Hulk listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Carrack

There are currently 4 Carrack's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Cat

There are currently 15 Cat's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Catboat, or a cat-rigged sailboat, is a sailing vessel characterized by a single mast carried well forward (i.e., near the front of the boat)

Chain Boat

There are currently 5 Chain Boat's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Chasse-Maree

There are currently 5 Chasse-Maree's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Coal Depot

There is currently 1 Coal Depot listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Collier

There is currently 1 Collier listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

A ship built to carry coal

Convalescent Ship

There are no Convalescent Ship's listed in Threedecks.

Corvette

There are currently 368 Corvette's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Cutter

There are currently 683 Cutter's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Demi-Batterie

There are currently 6 Demi-Batterie's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Demi-Galley

There are currently 5 Demi-Galley's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Dirt Boat

There is currently 1 Dirt Boat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Discovery Vessel

There are currently 11 Discovery Vessel's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Dockyard Cutter

There are no Dockyard Cutter's listed in Threedecks.

Dogger

There are currently 35 Dogger's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

East Indiaman

There are currently 189 East Indiaman's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Exploration Vessel

There are no Exploration Vessel's listed in Threedecks.

Felucca

There are currently 11 Felucca's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Fire Vessel

There are currently 27 Fire Vessel's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Fireship

There are currently 339 Fireship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

First Class Paddle Frigate

There is currently 1 First Class Paddle Frigate listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Floating Battery

There are currently 25 Floating Battery's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Fluit

There are currently 33 Fluit's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

This type includes vessels calssified as:

Danish "Fløjte"
French "Flûte"

Flute

There are currently 12 Flute's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Flûte

There are currently 115 Flûte's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Fly Boat

There are currently 30 Fly Boat's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Four-Masted

There is currently 1 Four-Masted listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Frégate à deux batteries

There is currently 1 Frégate à deux batteries listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

frégate légère

There are currently 22 frégate légère's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Frigate

There are currently 2,102 Frigate's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Gabarre

There are currently 84 Gabarre's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Galleasse

There are currently 6 Galleasse's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Galleon

There are currently 72 Galleon's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Galley

There are currently 459 Galley's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Galley-Frigate

There are currently 7 Galley-Frigate's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Galliot

There are currently 24 Galliot's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Goleta

There are no Goleta's listed in Threedecks.

Gondola

There are currently 4 Gondola's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Great Ship

There are currently 21 Great Ship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Gun-brig

There are currently 134 Gun-brig's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Gunbarge

There are currently 19 Gunbarge's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Gunboat

There are currently 262 Gunboat's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A small warship with at least one heavy gun, normally firing directly forwards aimed by pointing the entire boat at the target. These vessels were generally fore and aft rigged with one or two masts and carried sweeps to allow maneuver without wind.

Gunnery Training Ship

There are no Gunnery Training Ship's listed in Threedecks.

Gunvessel

There are currently 78 Gunvessel's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Half-Galley

There are currently 6 Half-Galley's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Hemmema

There are currently 7 Hemmema's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Hooker

There are currently 5 Hooker's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Horseboat

There are currently 2 Horseboat's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Hospital Ship

There are currently 20 Hospital Ship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Hoy

There are currently 56 Hoy's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Hulk

There are currently 19 Hulk's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Ironclad Frigate

There are no Ironclad Frigate's listed in Threedecks.

Ketch

There are currently 83 Ketch's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Kitz

There is currently 1 Kitz listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Danish ship type?

Lazarette

There are no Lazarette's listed in Threedecks.

Letter of Marque

There are no Letter of Marque's listed in Threedecks.

Lighter

There are currently 35 Lighter's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Longboat

There are currently 5 Longboat's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Lugger

There are currently 130 Lugger's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Machine Vessel

There are currently 19 Machine Vessel's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A Dutch national, Willem Meesters, was appointed to the Ordnance Board in 1690 and proposed the use of a watertight metal box fitted with a clockwork mechanism which acted as a detonator for the explosives. Around this were packed barrels of gunpowder and various old pieces of scrap metal and \'fireworks\'. Some of his vessels were designed to explode with great violence, other to act as \'smoke vessels\', producing thick clouds of blanketing smoke.

Middling Ship

There are currently 11 Middling Ship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Mooring Lighter

There is currently 1 Mooring Lighter listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Mortar Vessel

There are currently 5 Mortar Vessel's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Packet Boat

There are currently 13 Packet Boat's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Packet Brig

There are currently 16 Packet Brig's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Paddle Frigate

There is currently 1 Paddle Frigate listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Paddle Sloop

There is currently 1 Paddle Sloop listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Paddle Steamer

There are currently 30 Paddle Steamer's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Patache

There are currently 2 Patache's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A patache is a type of sailing vessel with two masts, very light and shallow, a sort of cross between a brig and a schooner, which originally was a warship, being intended for surveillance and inspection of the coasts and ports. It was used as a tender to the fleet of vessels of more importance or size, and also for trans-Pacific travel, but later began to be used for trading voyages, carrying cargo burdens of 30 tons or more.

Pilot Boat

There are currently 13 Pilot Boat's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Pink

There are currently 36 Pink's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Pinnace

There are currently 64 Pinnace's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Polacca

There are currently 14 Polacca's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Poon

There is currently 1 Poon listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Post Ship

There are currently 85 Post Ship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Powder Depot

There are no Powder Depot's listed in Threedecks.

Powder Hulk

There is currently 1 Powder Hulk listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Powder Magazine

There is currently 1 Powder Magazine listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Poyama

There are currently 4 Poyama's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Praam

There are currently 44 Praam's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Prison hulk

There are no Prison hulk's listed in Threedecks.

Prison Ship

There are currently 13 Prison Ship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Prow

There is currently 1 Prow listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Radeau

There are currently 8 Radeau's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Receiving Hulk

There are no Receiving Hulk's listed in Threedecks.

Receiving Ship

There are currently 2 Receiving Ship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Row Boat

There are currently 3 Row Boat's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Rowbarge

There are currently 5 Rowbarge's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Rowing Frigate

There are currently 31 Rowing Frigate's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Schooner

There are currently 759 Schooner's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Schuyt

There are currently 5 Schuyt's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Screw Frigate

There are currently 3 Screw Frigate's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Screw Frigate Blockship

There are no Screw Frigate Blockship's listed in Threedecks.

Screw Mortar Frigate

There are no Screw Mortar Frigate's listed in Threedecks.

Screw Ship of the Line

There are currently 8 Screw Ship of the Line's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Screw Sloop

There are no Screw Sloop's listed in Threedecks.

Shallop

There are currently 15 Shallop's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Shallop

There is currently 1 Shallop listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

These vessels were in effect large open boats (undecked)

Sheer Hulk

There are currently 4 Sheer Hulk's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Ship

There are currently 3,176 Ship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

A vessel with three square-rigged masts and a bowsprit

Ship of the Line

There are currently 3,444 Ship of the Line's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

3-masted vessel

Ship Royal

There are currently 6 Ship Royal's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Ship-Sloop

There are currently 350 Ship-Sloop's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Signal Station Vessel

There is currently 1 Signal Station Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Slave Ship

There are currently 4 Slave Ship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Sloop

There are currently 348 Sloop's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Sloop-of-War

There are currently 22 Sloop-of-War's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Slop Ship

There is currently 1 Slop Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Smack

There are currently 46 Smack's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Snow

There are currently 127 Snow's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

The sails and rigging on the main-mast and fore-mast of a snow, are exactly similar to those on the same masts in a ship only that there is a final mast behind the main-mast, of the former, which carries a sail nearly resembling the mizen of a ship The foot of this mast is fixed in a block of wood on the quarter-deck abaft the main-mast; and the head of it is attached to the after-part of the main-top. The sail, which is called the try sail, is extended from its mast towards the stern of the vessel.

Spiegel Retourship

There are currently 5 Spiegel Retourship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Steam Ship

There is currently 1 Steam Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Steam Sloop

There are currently 15 Steam Sloop's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Store Hulk

There are no Store Hulk's listed in Threedecks.

Storeship

There are currently 116 Storeship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Survey Vessel

There are currently 32 Survey Vessel's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Tartane

There are currently 23 Tartane's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Tender

There are currently 88 Tender's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Topsail Schooner

There is currently 1 Topsail Schooner listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see it

Transport

There are currently 110 Transport's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Troop Ship

There are currently 3 Troop Ship's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Turuma

There are currently 13 Turuma's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Udema

There are currently 7 Udema's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Uitlegger

There are currently 101 Uitlegger's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Urca

There are currently 10 Urca's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Xebec

There are currently 112 Xebec's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all

Yacht

There are currently 171 Yacht's listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all