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.