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Skeg. A skeg (or skegg or skag) is a sternward extension of the keel of boats and ships which have a rudder mounted on the centre line. [1] The term also applies to the lowest point on an outboard motor or the outdrive of an inboard/outboard. [A] [B] In more recent years, the name has been used for a fin on a surfboard which improves ...
Bilge: the underwater part of a ship between the flat of the bottom and the vertical topsides [13] Bottom: the lowest part of the ship's hull. Bow: front of a ship (opposite of "stern") [1] Centerline or centreline: an imaginary, central line drawn from the bow to the stern. [1] Fore or forward: at or toward the front of a ship or further ahead ...
English: A view inside a Rivercat class ferry, looking towards the stern. The Rivercat class ferries were introduced into the Sydney Ferries network in the early 90s, serving F3 Parramatta River routes.
Uridium (released on the NES as The Last Starfighter) [3] is a science fiction side-scrolling shoot 'em up originally designed by Andrew Braybrook for the Commodore 64, and later ported to other 8-bit machines. It consists of fifteen levels, [4] each named after a metal element, with the last level being called Uridium (a fictional metallic ...
Chief steward. Galley of the Austrian passenger ship S.S. Africa in the Mediterranean sea circa 1905. A chief steward is the senior crew member working in the steward's department of a ship. Since there is no purser on most ships in the United States Merchant Marine, the steward is the senior person in the department, whence its name.
101 officers and enlisted. Armament. 4 × 4 in (102 mm) guns. 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun. 2 × .30 cal (7.62 mm) machine guns. 12 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes. USS Whipple (DD- 217/AG-117), a Clemson -class destroyer was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of Captain Abraham Whipple (1733–1819), who served in the ...
2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes. 3 external sternward-facing torpedo tubes. 6 reload torpedoes. 1 x 4-inch (102 mm) deck gun. 3 anti-aircraft machine guns. HMS Turbulent (N98) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. It was laid down by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched in May 1941.
British Railways inherited a variety of brake vans from each of the Big Four: GWR, LNER, Southern Railway and LMS due to the nationalisation of the railways in 1948 . A brake van, on a train, is a wagon at the rear of a goods train where a guard would sit with a hand brake. The job of this wagon was to provide extra braking force for a train ...