There are but a few insights of how sailing ships really behaved when tacked, though many factors might affect the time to complete the manoeuvre. This article is concerned with French tacking trials of square-rigged warships in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and introduces data on comparative performance.


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    Title :

    Some Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century French Trials of Square-rigged Warships Tacking


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    The Mariner's Mirror ; 97 , 4 ; 289-298


    Publication date :

    2011-01-01


    Size :

    10 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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