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- An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 27. ISBN 0870219871. Media related to Forecastles at Wikimedia Commons...
- The Forecastle Festival (pronounced "fore-castle") is a three-day music, art, and activism festival held annually in Louisville, Kentucky. The festival...
- "Champ of the Forecastle" is a Sailor Steve Costigan short story by Robert E. Howard. It was originally published in the November 1930 issue of Fight Stories...
- The **** of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea), first published in the United States as The Children of...
- A petty officer (PO) is a non-commissioned officer in many navies. Often they may be superior to a seaman, and subordinate to more senior non-commissioned...
- Sampson classes, and were also called "broken deckers", due to their high forecastles. Prior to entering World War I in 1917, the United States began producing...
- wind, became more widely used. The towers were gradually replaced by the forecastle and sterncastle, as in the carrack Santa María of Christopher Columbus...
- A gangway is a narrow p****age that joins the quarterdeck to the forecastle of a sailing ship. The term is also extended to mean the narrow p****ages used...
- additionally carry smaller carriage-mounted guns on their quarterdecks and forecastles (the superstructures above the upper deck). In 1778 the Carron Iron Company...
- defence in the event of boarding. More common, but much smaller, is the forecastle. As sailing ships evolved, the aftercastle gave way to the quarterdeck...