wooden ships
Sailing boats, oak-built
Wooden ships are vessels built primarily from timber, the dominant form of watercraft from antiquity through the mid-nineteenth century.
The phrase evokes an age of sail—naval battles, exploration, and maritime trade before iron and steel hulls.
Wooden ships and iron men romanticizes the era's seafarers as tougher than their fragile vessels.
- longshipSlender Norse rowing vessel
- hullOuter covering or frame
- keelHull's structural base
- figureheadNominal leader, no authority
- riggingRopes controlling ship sails
mast · dhow · caravel · timber · rudder · sea shanties · planking · caulking · deck · shipwreck tales · trade routes · bow · brigantine · oakum · galleon · junk · clipper · naval warfare
- watercraftboat, sailboat, kayak, canoe, ships
- maritime historysailors, ships, seamen, sailing ships, celestial navigation
- naval historybattleships, naval battles, naval history, admiral, battleship
- collectible modelsmodel trains, model cars, diecast cars, model kits, scale models
- timber industrylumber, sawmills, logging camps, lumberjacks, timber trade
- shipbuildingshipyards, shipyard, dockyards, dockyard, hull
hull material
wooden shipsironclads
Wooden warships with armor
dreadnoughts · battleships · nuclear submarines · aircraft carriers · destroyers