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Q: What purpose has the net attached near bowsprit of sailing ships?
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What were on sailing ships in the 1400s?

Belaying pins and bowsprit figureheads.


How is the mermaid figure attached to bowsprit?

Old sailing ships were built from wood joined with angled joinery wood pegs. In more modern construction bronze bolts and screws are also used.


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If it's above the surface, attached to the rigging, it's a bowsprit. If it's below the surface, it's a ram. More commonly found on rowing ships, triremes and such.


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yacht...... east indiaman,galleon,frigate,man o war,ship of the line were the largest type of sailing vesselsSecond answerMostly the word "ship" was reserved to the larger kinds with three or more masts and a full bowsprit, while the smaller types were named for their sail-plan, e.g. barque, brig, brigantine.... So in general the answer is that large sailing ships were called "ships" and that it was the small ones that had different names.There were some types of large ships as mentioned above (except for "frigate" and "yacht", frigates were small ships, and yachts are boats: they have a single mast), but no other general term for large ships as distinguished from small ones.


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