Posted on 01/24/2022 1:51:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Probably doesn’t haul much coal, though.
Would love to see it full sailed.
The Wyoming
Displacement 10,000 short tons (9,100 metric tons) approx.
Length
450 ft (140 m) overall
350 ft (110 m) on deck
329.5 ft (100.4 m) between perpendiculars
Beam 50.1 ft (15.3 m)
Draught 30.4 ft (9.3 m)
Depth of hold 33 ft (10 m)
Propulsion Sail
Sail plan six-masted schooner: 22 sails: 6 gaff main sails (No. 1 to 5 of equal size, spanker sail of larger size), 6 gaff topsails, 5 staysails, 5 foresails with 39,826.8 sq ft (3,700 m²) sail area
Speed 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement 13[2] (last voyage), 16[3] (captain, 1st & 2nd mates, engineer, cook, cabin boy, 7 - 10 abs)
Damm big. A 100 gun Naval ship of the line typically displaced about 7,000 tons and ran 175 ft in length.
Probably the military vessels needed the maneuverability. What's quite surprising to me is how long such large wood cargo vessels were built and in use. Clearly this one exceeded what most down the ages considered the practical limit. :^)
The late Lionel Casson wrote about the grain haulers of the Roman Mediterranean, they were huge, and those in the know who wanted to travel great distances by sea booked passage on those. I'd be surprised if the remains of some aren't down there on the seafloor, such as in the straits of Messina.
The USS Constitution was built with a lengthwise truss system to prevent "hogging", and at some unknown point in the past, some flagrant idiot had it all cut out. In one of the recent-years refits, this missing component was rediscovered somehow, restored, and it so stiffened the hull that it's again possible for it to go out under sail. Shame, it never will.
Yeah, good thing I’m not the author, huh?
Didn’t think you were the author. This sort of braindead writing is so common now and it’s infuriating. It suggests to me that these people really didn’t read dry much growing up.Or they read informally written things on the internet.
According to my reading those ships with lengths nearing and over 300 feet had a lot of problems with the hull planks working and leaking resulting in the need for constant pumping. A lot more than the usual large wooden ship experienced. A couple simply broke apart in heavy weather.
I had never heard of this ship. I dare say very few people living in the State of Wyoming today have heard of it.
Wyoming was a wooden six-masted schooner built and completed in 1909 by the firm of Percy & Small in Bath, Maine.[1] With a length of 450 ft (140 m) from jib-boom tip to spanker boom tip, Wyoming was the largest known wooden ship ever built.[4]
Name Københaven
Owner East Asiatic Company
Builder Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, Scotland
Laid down 1913
Completed 24 March 1921
Fate Disappeared after 22 December 1928
General characteristics
Class and type sail training
Type Five-masted barque
Tonnage 3,965 GRT
Length 131.9 m (432.74 ft) o/a
Beam 14.9 m (48.88 ft)
Height 48.6 m (159.45 ft)
Depth 8.7 m (28.54 ft)
Propulsion Auxiliary diesel engine
Sail plan Barque
4,644.4 m2 (49,992 sq ft) sail area
Crew 26 crew and 45 cadets
This may interest some.
Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn 1928 - Captain Irving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLzBDhilDL0
Estimated Noah’s ark....510 feet....rectangular boxy also...definitely not a schooner....
Ptolemy V warship....426 feet(tessarakonteres) or so
USS Gerald Ford...1100 feet...
For comparison only...
The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) was a combat vessel that carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She carried no evaporators (i.e. fresh water distillers). However, let it be noted that according to her log, “On July 27, 1798, the U.S.S. Constitution sailed from Boston with a full complement of 475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7,400 cannon shot, 11,600 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum.”
Her mission: “To destroy and harass English shipping.”
Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 pounds of flour and 68,300 gallons of rum. Then she headed for the Azores, arriving there 12 November. She provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and 64,300 gallons of Portuguese wine.
On 18 November, she set sail for England. In the ensuing days she defeated five British men of war and captured and scuttled 12 English merchantships, salvaging only the rum aboard each. By 26 January, her powder and shot were exhausted. Nevertheless, although unarmed she made a night raid up the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Her landing party captured a whisky distillery and transferred 40,000 gallons of single malt Scotch aboard by dawn. Then she headed home.
The U.S.S. Constitution arrived in Boston on 20 February, 1799, with no cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum, no wine, no whisky and 38,600 gallons of stagnant water
And not wood
Nice tall tale.
No way. LOL!
BS! no one drinks Portuguese wine when u got 40k of single malt!! ;)
Didn’t Francis Drake circumcise the world with a 100 foot clipper?
I thought I read that somewhere, like “The History of the World according to High School students.”
“And not wood.”
Nope, Royal Clipper is decidedly not a wooden vessel. I kind of wish it were, though, for nostalgia.
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