While searching for phones online one day, my mind wandered to the Wyoming, because much like the phone I was hoping to buy, it was a technological dinosaur.The Wyoming | And Other Technological Dinosaurs | Justin Shatwell | February 25, 2015
While searching for phones online one day, my mind wandered to the Wyoming, because much like the phone I was hoping to buy, it was a technological dinosaur.The Wyoming | And Other Technological Dinosaurs | Justin Shatwell | February 25, 2015
Quite a magnificent beast of a ship.
A six masted schooner? WOW!
Bump
More cowbell and more sail!
A massive wooden sailing ship. Quite remarkable, actually, for its day. But the current champion, the Royal Clipper, is larger, and much faster.
When you write repeatedly that “ it was the biggest schooner of all time” you might oh I don’t know GIVE HER FRIKIN SIZE AND DISPLACEMENT.
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.
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
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
The gloBULL warming crowd would love for these types of ships to be built again.
Anyone get video on their cell phone of the wreck?
You know the rules. Cell phone video on youtube or it didn’t happen.
Maybe I missed it, but the documentary didn't mention the Wyoming's life-sized, white skeleton (hull) sculpture that is located on the museum property, on the very spot where the ship was built.
As "the longest confirmed wooden ship in history", the Wyoming is analogous to Noah's Ark.
And while Noah's Ark was a box [Hebrew תיבה], not a schooner, Wyoming is the shape of a box.
What's in a name..
The last picture on this page is a nice view of the sculpture. From the coordinates on that link, it's a short hop over to a satellite map view.
Notice the streets at the corner location of the bowsprit of "the longest confirmed wooden ship in history".
Percy & Small *is* the Mars 2020 mission.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat." :)
