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Summary: SAILING SHIPS AND WIND POWERED VESSELS
Power without Fossil Fuels
SAILS ON MODERN CARGOSHIPS
The Germans have added a sail (more like a Genoa) to pull the vessel and reduce fuel consumption. It is said that emissions can be reduced by 20%.
I found this "SkySail" photo;
Date Published: Jan 18, 2011 - 4:59 pm
TALL SHIPS HAUL CARGO AGAIN
Ariel Schcwartz has reported that the Kathleen & May was carrying CARGO again. Yeh! wine from France and hoped to bring Irish whiskey and scotch to France. Her picture;
http://c1.cleantechnica.com/files/2008/07/2635007979_a3c3dd84c1.jpg
This is worth looking into.
anther photo at
http://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/img.php?o=jpg&p=resizeTo&f=/original_images/kathleenandmay4.jpg&a[size]=420
Date Published: Jan 15, 2011 - 6:42 pm
Queen Anne's Revenge
Captain Hornigold was the master of the Ranger until 1717.
In November he and his first captain (Edward Teach) on another
ship and they came from two sides to acquire the Le Concorde de
Nantes.
There seems to be a question whether Hornigold later "retired" or
was killed when his ship "reef-ed".
Teach
became the captain of the Le Concorde de Nantes
and changed the name to Queen Anne's Revenge (her christening name
Concord) and he became Black Beard.
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Queen Anne's Revenge form Wikipedia |
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She was found late 1996 in the shoals of the Beaufort Inlet at
Beaufort, NC.
Date Published: Jan 14, 2011 - 7:28 pm
Friends Good Will
The original ship on the
First of May in the year 1717 "Friends Good Will"
(Fiends Good Will Sloop rigged with a sparred length of 101
ft ) Port Larne on the north east coast of Antrim.
Larne (from the Irish: Latharna meaning "Lothair-na"—the domain
of a Viking chieftain) is a substantial seaport and industrial
town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern
Ireland.
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http://www.michiganmaritimemuseum.org/ assets/bg_leftcolitems.jpg |
This new one in on the Great Lakes.
A monument in
Curran Park commemorates this first emigrant ship to sail
from Larne heading for Boston.
Edward Goodwin, master, departed Larne with fifty two
persons and arrived in Boston Sept. 9-16, 1717).
Meeting constant
head winds the ship made very poor progress, and food ran so low
that the people were on the verge of starving. Captain
Goodwin fortunately fell in with another vessel and obtained
provisions. But, continual bad weather brought further
delay, and hunger again threatened. The meager gift of
water, bread, and meat brought only a temporary reprieve from
starvation.
The crew soon
were set to catching dolphins and sharks which a "Good
Providence” placed in their path. Rains came and the
water was gathered from the decks to quench the thirst.
When May, June and July, months of constant anxiety, had passed
August brought so great a storm that the ship lay like a thing
deserted, her decks awash, her sailors weak and exhausted.
With September the sun shone, but their hunger increased, and in
desperation they began to speak of drawing lots to decide whom
should be eaten first. The Captain how ever now held out
hope of land and about the second week of September the "Friends
Goodwill” crept up Boston harbor with only one of her company
dead.
http://www.ulsterscotsagency.com/ulsterscotmayjune05no5.asp
From 1701 to 1717 some 250 new arrivals were warned to leave
town immediately, and for the next five years figures show that
a further 330 were similarly warned. Among them were said to be
49 passengers who had arrived on a single ship from Ireland,
but we have no record of its name. It is conceivable, given the
closeness in numbers to those on the Friends Goodwill, that it
was her passengers who were being referred to.
My ancestor headed to the northern part Carolina through the Dismal Swamp. There was one Carolina then.
Date Published: Jan 14, 2011 - 3:42 pm
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