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America's Cup
The America's Cup, affectionately known as the "Auld Mug", is a trophy awarded to the winner of the America's Cup match races between two sailing yachts.
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Anchor windlass
A windlass is a machine used on ships that is used to let-out and heave-up equipment such as a ship's anchor or a fishing trawl.
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Aylesford
Aylesford is a village and civil parish on the River Medway in Kent, 4 miles NW of Maidstone in England.
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Ballast
Ballast is material that is used to provide stability to a vehicle or structure.
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Barquentine
A barquentine or schooner barque (alternatively "barkentine" or "schooner bark") is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts.
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Battle of Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was a military operation that took place in Dunkirk (Dunkerque), France, during the Second World War.
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Beam (nautical)
The beam of a ship is its width at the widest point as measured at the ship's nominal waterline.
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Board of Trade
The Board of Trade is a British government department concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade.
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Bob Roberts (folksinger)
Alfred William "Bob" Roberts (1907–1982) was a British folk singer, songwriter, storyteller, bargeman, author, and journalist.
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Bowsprit
The bowsprit of a sailing vessel is a spar extending forward from the vessel's prow.
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Brail
Brails, in a sailing ship, are small lines used to haul in or up the edges (leeches) or corners of sails, before furling.
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Brick
A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.
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British Expeditionary Force (World War II)
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the name of the British Army in Western Europe during the Second World War from 2 September 1939 when the BEF GHQ was formed until 31 May 1940, when GHQ closed down.
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Carbon black
Carbon black (subtypes are acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black and thermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of heavy petroleum products such as FCC tar, coal tar, ethylene cracking tar, with the addition of a small amount of vegetable oil.
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Carling (sailing)
In bargebuilding, carlings are transverse timbers that run parallel to the beams to support the deck, half timbers placed on every second frame at the inner wale and the coamings of the hatch.
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Cement
A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens and adheres to other materials, binding them together.
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Cereal
A cereal is any edible components of the grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) of cultivated grass, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.
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Chaff cutter
A chaff cutter is a mechanical device for cutting straw or hay into small pieces before being mixed together with other forage and fed to horses and cattle.
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Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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Charles Richardson (cement merchant)
Charles Richardson (16 February 1817 at Woodford, Essex, United Kingdom 30 January 1890 at Newton Abbot, Devon) was the founder of the family Brick and Cement Firm A & WT Richardson Ltd, which lasted over 100 years.
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Chelsea Waterworks Company
The Chelsea Waterworks Company was a London waterworks company founded in 1723 which supplied water to many central London locations throughout the 18th and 19th centuries until its functions were taken over by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1902.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Conyer
Conyer is a hamlet within Teynham civil parish in the borough of Swale in Kent, England.
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Cooks Yard
Walter Cook established a Thames sailing barge building business in 1894 on the bank of the River Blackwater at Maldon, Essex, England.
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Deadwood (shipbuilding)
Deadwood is the lower part of a ship's stem or stern.
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Douglas fir
Pseudotsuga menziesii, commonly known as Douglas fir, Douglas-fir and Oregon pine, is an evergreen conifer species native to western North America.
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk (Dunkerque; Duinkerke(n)) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
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Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Erith
Erith is a town in south-east London in the London Borough of Bexley.
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Flat-bottomed boat
A flat-bottomed boat is a boat with a flat bottomed, two-chined hull, which allows it be used in shallow bodies of water, such as rivers, because it is less likely to ground.
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Flax
Flax (Linum usitatissimum), also known as common flax or linseed, is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Foresail
A foresail is one of a few different types of sail set on the foremost mast (foremast) of a sailing vessel.
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Forestay
On a sailing vessel, a forestay, sometimes just called a stay, is a piece of standing rigging which keeps a mast from falling backwards.
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Gaff rig
Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar (pole) called the gaff.
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Gillingham, Kent
Gillingham is a town in the county of Kent in South East England.
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Glossary of nautical terms
This is a partial glossary of nautical terms; some remain current, while many date from the 17th to 19th centuries.
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Gravesend
Gravesend is an ancient town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the south bank of the Thames Estuary and opposite Tilbury in Essex.
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Gunpowder
Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.
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Half hull model ship
A half hull model ship (also known as a "half hull" or "half ship") is a wooden model ship featuring only one half of a boat's hull without rigging or other fixtures.
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Hay
Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for grazing animals such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep.
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Hemp
Hemp, or industrial hemp (from Old English hænep), typically found in the northern hemisphere, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant species that is grown specifically for the industrial uses of its derived products.
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Henry Dodd
William Henry Dodd (died 1881), "The Golden Dustman", raised the status of Thames bargemen, and aimed to improve the performance of the Thames sailing barges.
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Hervey Benham
Hervey William Gurney Benham (1910–1987) was the pioneering proprietor of Essex County Newspapers, a prolific author of books on Essex and the East Coast, an accomplished musician and a significant benefactor.
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Hold (compartment)
View of the hold of a container ship A ship's hold or cargo hold is a space for carrying cargo.
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Horse-drawn vehicle
A horse-drawn vehicle is a mechanized piece of equipment pulled by one horse or by a team of horses.
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Hoy (boat)
A hoy was a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy barge used for freight, usually with a burthen of about 60 tons (bm).
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Hull (watercraft)
The hull is the watertight body of a ship or boat.
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Humber Keel
The Humber Keel was a type of sail craft used for inshore and inland cargo transport around Hull and the Humber Estuary, in the United Kingdom, particularly through the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Ipswich
Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, England, located on the estuary of the River Orwell, about north east of London.
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Jane Benham
Jane Benham MBE (28 January 1943, Colchester, Essex – June 1992, Colchester) was instrumental in the formation and operation of the East Coast Sail Trust,http://www.thalatta.org.uk/index.htm a charitable institution devoted to both character building for young people through sail training, and preservation of Thames sailing barges.
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John Arthur Kemp
John Kemp, 1926–1987, created and ran the East Coast Sail Trust,http://www.thalatta.org.uk a charitable institution devoted to both character building for young people through education at sea, and preservation of Thames sailing barges.
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Kelson
The kelson or keelson is the member which, particularly in a wooden vessel, lies parallel with its keel but above the transverse members such as timbers, frames or in a larger vessel, floors.
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Ketch
A ketch is a two-masted sailing craft whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast).
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Leeboard
A leeboard is a lifting foil used by a sailboat, much like a centreboard, but located on the leeward side of the boat.
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Leigh-on-Sea
Leigh-on-Sea, also referred to as Leigh, is a town and civil parish in Essex, England.
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Lighter (barge)
A lighter is a type of flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships.
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List of active Thames sailing barges
A Thames sailing barge is a type of commercial sailing boat once common on the River Thames in London.
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Little Ships of Dunkirk
The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 850 private boats that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helping to rescue more than 336,000 British and French soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at Dunkirk during the Second World War.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London Borough of Redbridge
The London Borough of Redbridge is a London borough in East London, England.
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London Bridge
Several bridges named London Bridge have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London.
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London stock brick
London stock brick is the type of handmade brick which was used for the majority of building work in London and South East England until the growth in the use of Flettons and other machine-made bricks in the early 20th century.
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Lower Halstow
Lower Halstow is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England.
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Lug sail
The lug sail, or lugsail, is a fore-and-aft, four-cornered sail that is suspended from a spar, called a yard.
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Mainsail
A mainsail is a sail located behind the main mast of a sailing vessel.
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Maldon, Essex
Maldon (locally) is a town on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, England.
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Mast (sailing)
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.
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Medway Ports
Medway Ports, incorporating the Port of Sheerness and Chatham Docks is part of Peel Ports, the second largest port group in the United Kingdom.
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Mersey flat
A Mersey flat is a type of doubled-ended barge with rounded bilges, carvel build and fully decked.
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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney was a Metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965.
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Milton Regis
Milton Regis is a village in the district of Swale in Kent, England.
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Nore
The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames Estuary, England.
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Norfolk wherry
The Norfolk wherry is a type of boat used on The Broads in Norfolk and Suffolk, England.
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Oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.
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Ochre
Ochre (British English) (from Greek: ὤχρα, from ὠχρός, ōkhrós, pale) or ocher (American English) is a natural clay earth pigment which is a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.
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Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.
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Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.
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Pine
A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.
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Pinus rigida
Pinus rigida, the pitch pine, is a small-to-medium-sized pine, native to eastern North America.
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Pool of London
The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse.
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Port of Tilbury
The Port of Tilbury is located on the River Thames at Tilbury in Essex, England.
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Quercus robur
Quercus robur, commonly known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae.
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Reefing
Reefing is the means of reducing the area of a sail, usually by folding or rolling one edge of the canvas in on itself.
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Rigging
Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support a sailing ship or sail boat's masts—standing rigging, including shrouds and stays—and which adjust the position of the vessel's sails and spars to which they are attached—the running rigging, including halyards, braces, sheets and vangs.
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River Medway
The River Medway is a river in South East England.
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River Mersey
The River Mersey is a river in the North West of England.
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River Thames
The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.
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Road surface
A road surface or pavement is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway.
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Rudder
A rudder is a primary control surface used to steer a ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft, aircraft, or other conveyance that moves through a fluid medium (generally air or water).
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Sail twist
Sail twist is a phenomenon in sailing where the head of the sail is at a different angle of incidence from the foot of the sail in order to change the lift distribution with height.
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Sailboat
A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails smaller than a sailing ship.
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Sailing ballast
Ballast is used in sailboats to provide moment to resist the lateral forces on the sail.
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Sand
Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.
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SB Kathleen
The SB Kathleen was a spritsail Thames barge built by Glover at Gravesend, Kent in England in 1901, and registered in Rochester.
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SB Pudge
SB Pudge is a wooden Thames sailing barge, built in Rochester, Kent, England in 1922.
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Sheet (sailing)
In sailing, a sheet is a line (rope, cable or chain) used to control the movable corner(s) (clews) of a sail.
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Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.
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Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is an industrial town situated in the Swale district of Kent in south east England, from Canterbury and from London.
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Sloop
A sloop (from Dutch sloep, in turn from French chaloupe) is a sailing boat with a single mast and a fore-and-aft rig.
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Spinnaker
A spinnaker is a sail designed specifically for sailing off the wind from a reaching course to a downwind, i.e. with the wind 90°–180° off bow.
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Spritsail
The spritsail is a four-sided, fore-and-aft sail that is supported at its highest points by the mast and a diagonally running spar known as the sprit.
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Staysail
A staysail is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit, or to another mast (the mast is item 13 in the illustration right).
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.
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Stern
The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail.
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Straw
Straw is an agricultural by-product, the dry stalks of cereal plants, after the grain and chaff have been removed.
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Strood
Strood is a town in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, South East England.
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Swin (Thames)
The Swin is a passage in the Thames estuary between Maplin Sands, Foulness Sand and Gunfleet Sand to the north and the Barrow and Sunk sand ridges to the south.
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Teynham
Teynham is a large village and civil parish in the borough of Swale in Kent, England.
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Thames Estuary
The Thames Estuary is the estuary in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain.
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Tiller
A tiller or till is a lever used to steer a vehicle.
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Topmast
The masts of traditional sailing ships were not single spars, but were constructed of separate sections or masts, each with its own rigging.
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Topsail
A topsail is a sail set above another sail; on square-rigged vessels further sails may be set above topsails.
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Transom (nautical)
In naval architecture, a transom is either the surface that forms the stern of a vessel or one of the many horizontal beams that make up that surface (e.g., the "wing transom", etc.). Transoms may be flat or curved and they may be vertical, raked forward, also known as a retroussé or reverse transom, angling forward (toward the bow) from the waterline to the deck, or raked aft, often simply called "raked", angling in the other direction.
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays.
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Wale
A wale is a thick plank of wood fastened to the side of a ship to provide protection from wear.
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Waste
Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials.
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Winch
A winch is a mechanical device that is used to pull in (wind up) or let out (wind out) or otherwise adjust the "tension" of a rope or wire rope (also called "cable" or "wire cable").
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Windlass
The windlass is an apparatus for moving heavy weights.
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Wire rope
Steel wire rope (right hand langs lay) Wire rope is several strands of metal wire twisted into a helix forming a composite "rope", in a pattern known as "laid rope".
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Wood
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
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Wooden ship model
Wooden ship models or wooden model ships are scale representations of ships, constructed mainly of wood.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Worm drive
A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm (which is a gear in the form of a screw) meshes with a worm gear (which is similar in appearance to a spur gear).
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References
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