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Parent topics
- Warship [r]: A ship designed to employ weapons and sensors in direct naval warfare [e]
- Sailing [r]: Craft propulsion by means of the wind acting upon a hoisted sail. [e]
Subtopics
- Ship of the line [r]: A major sailing warship, intended to fight in fleet actions (i.e., in line of battle) [e]
- Frigate (sail) [r]: A fast, moderately heavily gunned sailing warship, with enough firepower to overcome slower vessels and enough speed to outrun more powerful ships; used on independent operations and scouting; cf. cruiser [e]
- Sloop-of-war [r]: A light sailing warship, with a single gun deck and light cannon, typically used for patrols and scouting where contact with larger warships was not expected; commanding officer usually a commander (naval) but sometimes a junior captain; WWII sloops were ocean escorts [e]
Specific ships
- Mary Rose [r]: Among the earliest purpose-built Royal Navy ships, ordered by King Henry VIII; preserved, as a wreck, in Portsmouth [e]
- Sovereign of the Seas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- HMS Victory (1778) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- HMS Shannon (1808) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- USS Bonne Homme Richard (1766) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- USS Constitution (1797) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kilt [r]: A knee-length, skirtlike, traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men as part of Highland attire. [e]
- Alfred Thayer Mahan [r]: The leading naval theorist of the late 19th and early 20th century, basing the concept of a "fleet in being" as a fundamental determinant of history [e]
- Chemical Weapons Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Warren Stilwell [r]: American general in World War II; commander of American forces in the China-Burma-India theater. [e]