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    • Source: Man-of-war

      • In Royal Navy jargon, a man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or simply man) was a powerful warship or frigate of the 16th to the 19th century, that was frequently used in Europe. Although the term never acquired a specific meaning, it was usually reserved for a sailing ship armed with cannon. The rating system of the Royal Navy classified men-of-war into six "rates", a "first-rate" having the greatest armament, and a "sixth-rate" the least.


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      The man-of-war was developed in Portugal in the early 15th century from earlier roundships with the addition of a second mast to form the carrack. The 16th century saw the carrack evolve into the galleon and then the ship of the line. The evolution of the term has been given thus:

      man-of-war. "A phrase applied to a line of battle ship, contrary to the usual rule in the English language by which all ships are feminine. It probably arose in the following manner: 'Men of war' were heavily armed soldiers. A ship full of them would be called a 'man-of-war ship.' In process of time the word 'ship' was discarded as unnecessary and there remained the phrase 'a man-of-war.'" – Talbot.

      The man-of-war design developed by Sir John Hawkins was a type of galleon which had three masts, each with three to four sails. The ship could be up to 60 metres long and could have up to 124 guns: four at the bow, eight at the stern, and 56 in each broadside. All these cannons required three gun decks to hold them, one more than any earlier ship. It had a maximum sailing speed of eight or nine knots.


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      Nautical References
      Project Gutenberg: The World of Waters
      Gallery of photos of men-of-war (Museo delle Navi, Bologna, Italy)

    • Source: Man of war

      • Man of war may refer to:

      Man-of-war, refers to any type of heavily armed warship from the 16th to the 19th centuries
      Man-of-war fish, a driftfish generally found in open sea or close to the Portuguese man o' war
      Max Manus: Man of War, a 2008 Norwegian World War II film
      Portuguese man o' war, also referred to as Portuguese man of war, a floating marine colonial hydrozoa
      "Man of War" (song), a song by Radiohead
      Man of War (video game), a 1997 naval combat strategy game
      Man of War gneisses, a sequence of metamorphosed igneous rocks found on the Lizard peninsular in Cornwall, UK
      Man of War, Fingal, Ireland, a small populated place


      See also


      Man o' War (1917–1947), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
      Manowar, an American heavy metal band
      Men of war (disambiguation)

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