Against the lazy sailing vessel drifting before a genial breeze, they place the turbine steamer crossing the Atlantic in five days or the still swifter airplane, in fifteen hours.
73 fighting ships from strange hybrid ordn sailing vessels called galleases, which it would hope would fuse the sort of Mediterranean and Atlantic fighting traditions together and dominate both.
The abundant livestock kept by the Khoekhoen led to an informal trade between Portuguese and Dutch sailing vessels making their way around the Cape of Good Hope from the 15th century onward.
" in irons, " in nautical language, incapable of coming about or filling away — said of a sailing vessel when, in tacking, she comes up head to the wind and will not fill away on either tack.