The sailing boat, a treatise on sailing boats and small yachts, their varieties of type, sails, rig, etc. With practical directions for sailing and management; also, the one-design and restricted classes, fishing and shooting boats, sailing chariots and ice yachts, foreign and colonial boats, canoes, etc., etc (1901)
Folkard, Henry Coleman, 1827-1914 · London, Edward Stanford · leaf 27
rs wereornamented with carved heads of boars and other ferocious animals, projecting four orfive feet; beneath which was a sharp iron pike or rostrum. It was in boats of this … A Trireme, after Bafius, Schaeffer, and others. kind that the first naval action recorded in history was fought between the Greeks andtheir colonists, the inhabitants of Corfu. The Eomans afterwards improved upon the trireme, and built a faster class ofvessels, called the Liburni: these were more…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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