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There was little wind, so the galleys towed the sailing vessels, which did the fighting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Hulks of now outdated sailing vessels served this purpose.
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These figures relate to steam (and motor) vessels of 100 tons gross and upwards and sailing vessels of 100 tons net and upwards.
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There were then perhaps 70 old sailing vessels which never went far out to sea.
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On navigation buoys and aboard sailing vessels they keep lights burning.
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The question would not apply to sailing vessels, because they do not require bunkers.
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The only vessels excluded are (1) all fishing craft, (2) ail sailing vessels arriving and sailing coastwise, (3) all vessels engaged in estuarial traffic.
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They consisted of 1,760 steamers, 442 motor boats, and 424 sailing vessels.
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Tugs, whalers, dredgers, wood and composite vessels, and sailing vessels with auxiliary engines are excluded from the table.
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Practically during that period sailing vessels have almost disappeared, and steam vessels are far safer.
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They are not ordinary sailing vessels.
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The principal cause of the decline in the number of vessels from 3,433 to 904 has been the substantial reduction in the number of sailing vessels, from 1,868 to 194.
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It does not matter whether that protection was provided by the sailing vessels of bygone days or by the up-to-date oil-fired turbine-driven ships of the present day.
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There is, first of all, the extraordinary development of mechanical propulsion in the matter of boats as distinguished from the old sailing vessels with which we are familiar.
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They were able to berth over 300 sailing vessels simultaneously, but by 1971 they closed, no longer able to accommodate modern shipping.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These early ice sailing vessels led to the development of boats designed strictly for racing on ice.
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