- A
draft horse (US) or
draught horse (UK), also
known as dray horse, carthorse, work
horse or
heavy horse, is a
large horse bred to be a
working animal...
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animals are used due to
sheer physical strength in
tasks such as
ploughing or logging. Such
animals are
grouped as a
draught or
draft animals. Others...
- lift
crane equipment. A
Sheer-legs
barge is a
barge with
sheer-legs
mounted at one end,
which can lift
loads and luff the
sheer-legs to
adjust the reach...
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length of ship, type of ship, type and
number of superstructures,
amount of
sheer, and bow height. The
horizontal line
through the
circle of the Plimsoll...
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William Henry White,
Director of
Naval Construction, she was
launched at
Sheerness Dockyard on 29 May 1888. It was the
first command of
Admiral Sir William...
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paddle wheel 4-gun
steam vessel (Steam
Vessel Second class – SV2) from
Sheerness Dockyard on 12
March 1841. She was
reordered on 24
February 1842 as a...
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Condor had a
displacement of 980 tonnes, a
length of 204 feet (62 m), a
draught of 11.4 feet (3.5 m), and a
speed of 13.5
knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)....
- Seaton, the
Master Shipwright of
Sheerness, she was
initially slated to be
built in Portsmouth, and was
changed to
Sheerness Dockyard. She was
launched and...
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length = 2132⁄3 (59.53); keel = 1825⁄12 (50.82); beam = 573⁄4 (16.09);
draught = 2811⁄12 (8.06). She was
reputed to be the
largest warship in the world...
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Pelorus was the
first of the Pelorus-class cruisers, and was laid down at
Sheerness dockyard in 1895.
Completed and
commissioned into the
Royal Navy in 1897...
