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Shot across the bow
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
A shot fired close to and in front of a moving vessel to warn her to stop, often for boarding.
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Waft, английский
- A signal flag on a vessel.
- Obsolete term for [1] a sailing ship convoy. [2] a flag flown with the fly attached to the mast as a request for customs clearance. [3] a piece of clothing or a rolled and knotted flag flown as a signal (see weft).
- Струя аромата; донёсшийся запах мимолётное ощущение
Carronade, английский
- A short, smoothbore, cast iron naval cannon, used from the 1770s to the 1850s as a powerful, short-range anti-ship and anti-crew weapon.
- A short gun, capable of carrying a large ball, and useful in close engagements at sea. it takes its name from the large iron-foundry on the banks of the carron, near falkirk, in scotland, where this sort of ordnance was first made, or the principle applied to an improved construction. shorter and lighter than the common cannon, and having a chamber for the powder like a mortar, they are generally of large calibre, and carried on the upper works, as the poop and forecastle.
- A short-barreled, very large caliber, muzzle-loaded gun for use at short ranges. named after the foundry at carron in scotland. prior to 1817, carronades were not counted when rating warships.
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