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The Xebec .

The step-by-step construction and fitting of the morroco xebec of 1785

Much favoured by the Barbary pirates, the xebec differed from the polacre largely in her hull form, but shared the same concept of rig interchangeable between laten (for close-hauled performance) and square rig for running free. In calms, she could be rowed. A large crew was required to handle the complex rigging, man the guns and board their victims.

The 74-gun ship Bellona - plank-on-frame ship model The H.M.S. Bellona was one of the most famous 74-gun ships of the British Navy.The Bellona, launched on 19 February 1760, sailed t join the battlefleet wich was then blockading Brest. On 30 December 1780 the Bellona took part in the capture of the 44-gun Dutch ship Pricess Caroline; then she cruised off Gibraltar, in the North Sae and the West Indies. She was employed in the blockade of Cadiz; then the Bellona was at Jamaica, at Portsmouth and at Barbados. Although more than 50 years from her launch were passed, the Bellona served in the Navy until February 1814.

The construction of the naval training ship -Pedro Nunes (first named Thermophylae)

The history of Thermopylae - 1868-2007

Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen to the design of Bernard Weymouth of London for the White Star Line of Aberdeen. She measured 212'0"×36'0"×20'9" and tonnage 991 GRT, 948 NRT and 927 tons under deck. The under deck coefficient was 0,58. Rigged with royal sails, single topgallant and double top-sails. She was designed for the China tea trade, and set speed records on her maiden voyage to Melbourne -- 63 days, still the fastest trip under sail. In 1872 she raced the clipper Cutty Sark from Shanghai back to London and won by seven days after Cutty Sark lost her rudder. In 1895 she was sold to Portugal to be used as a naval training ship. The Portuguese Navy torpedoed her at sea in 1907 near Cascais.

Plank-on-frame model of a sloup from 1920

Portuguese Discovery ship from the XVI century

The Muleta from Seixal

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Woods for wooden model ships building

Wooden boatbuilding (preparation of the woods)

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