A pirate ships primary use is to loot other ships in order to collect their treasure and seriously benefit the pirate. But their are many other different types of ships, a cargo ship takes different materials according to the location and conditions. A cargo ship could transport silks, food, wool, wax, and more enticing for pirates, jewels and treasures. It will generally not be very fast or well defended but it will have a large cargo space. Some ships were even used to defend cargo ships against pirate ones, these ones needed to be quite fast and well-armed. There are also human and animal transportation ships, designed for mass transport and not particular speed or comfort. Fishing vessels were all relatively small as they aren't really made for long trips, mainly a day trip, large enough to hold the fish and people on board. Naval vessels are used to attack and defend the countries waters against pirates or other invading countries, fast well-armed and sturdy, and seaworthy. Modern ships are now moved by propellers and the people on board often have guns and even other assortments of a military arsenal. Although most vessels are used for different purposes and different times.
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Pirate Ships
Pirate ships aren't a specific thing as they are not produced exclusively or on a specific type of ship. Pirate ships can range from canoes to very large vessels. Pirates did use small vessels when there were not larger ones at hand. They're obtained through mutiny, stealing although you need to be brave to do that, or swapping ships with their victims. Pirates often made modifications to ships, by changing the rigging to make it sail faster and not taking so much cargo. Pirate ships were often burdened with cannons, although not to many as that would create too much of a weight, even with the removal of some ballast stones. The minimum for a pirate ship would be around six cannons. Blackbeard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge was laden with 40 cannons. The main things that a pirate ship needed to be was, fast, well-armed and seaworthy. Small ships have the advantage of easy repair, while large ships can have a greater arsenal of men and arms.
Famous Ships and Captains
Queen Anne’s Revenge-Edward Teach (Blackbeard)
Adventure Galley- Captain Kidd
The Revenge Captain-John Gow
The William-Anne Bonney, Mary Meade, Calico Jack
Fancy Pearl-Victory Edward England
Fancy-Henry Every (Long Ben)
Royal James-Ignatius Pell
First Fleet ships
In the first Fleet, 1788, 12 pirate ships landed at
Australia, some of this pirate ships were:
The Borrowdale: Was one of the supply ships.
The Alexander: Was the largest of the transport ships
The Prince of Wales
The Lady Penrhyn sailed 101 female convicts
The Scarbough: Sailed in both the First and Second Fleets
The Friendship: Carried 76 male convicts and 21 female
convicts
The Golden Grove: Was one of the First Fleet’s storeships
The Charlotte: Carried 88 male convicts and 20 female
convicts
The Supply: The smallest vessel, arrived first
The Fishburn: On of the supply ships
The Sirius: was the flagship of the First Fleet, a merchant
vessel
The Titanic:
The titanic is possibly the most famous ship of all time. It
was created in Belfast by the Harland and Wolff Company in 1909. The Titanic was made up of sixteen watertight
compartments, which were ingeniously designed to automatically close after the
water had risen to a certain height, or be closed from the main deck. The ship
could stay afloat if only 2 of the first four compartments were flooded.
Afterwards, it was realized that the first six compartments were flooded. The
Titanic was moved by three propellers which were powered by steam.
On board, there were no less than twenty four double ended
boilers and five single ended boilers which were placed in six boiler rooms.
The former were twenty feet long, had a diameter of 15 feet and 9 inches and
among them were six coal burning furnaces. Wastage gasses were emptied through
three funnels. The ships four funnels
were built away from Belfast and were then transferred on to the titanic. Three
of the funnels were used to expel smoke and waste. The fourth was purely to
make the ship look more powerful and was more of a stunt of magnificent
engineering.
The Syracusia:
In the time of the Ancient Greeks the famous engineer,
astronomer, physicist, mathematician created the Syracusia. This ship was an
epic feat of ingenuity, engineering and wonder. It could house six hundred
people; it was used for cargo, naval war and luxury travel. It had a gymnasium,
a temple to Olympian Goddess of beauty Aphrodite. It even featured garden
decorations. A problem with a ship that large was the fact that there was going
to be a considerable amount of water leaking into the hull. So Archimedes came
up with the brilliant idea to counter this, the Archimedes screw.
The Archimedes screw
is operated by hand and is to put low-lying water in to irrigation canals. It
is still used today for grain.
A pirate ships primary use is to loot other ships in order to collect their treasure and seriously benefit the pirate. But their are many other different types of ships, a cargo ship takes different materials according to the location and conditions. A cargo ship could transport silks, food, wool, wax, and more enticing for pirates, jewels and treasures. It will generally not be very fast or well defended but it will have a large cargo space. Some ships were even used to defend cargo ships against pirate ones, these ones needed to be quite fast and well-armed. There are also human and animal transportation ships, designed for mass transport and not particular speed or comfort. Fishing vessels were all relatively small as they aren't really made for long trips, mainly a day trip, large enough to hold the fish and people on board. Naval vessels are used to attack and defend the countries waters against pirates or other invading countries, fast well-armed and sturdy, and seaworthy. Modern ships are now moved by propellers and the people on board often have guns and even other assortments of a military arsenal. Although most vessels are used for different purposes and different times.
