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Dutch fluyt, 1677
A fluyt (archaic Dutch: fluijt "flute"; Dutch pronunciation:[flœyt]ⓘ)[1] is a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed by the shipwrights of Hoorn as a dedicated cargo vessel.[2] Originating in the Dutch Republic in the 16th century, the vessel was designed to facilitate transoceanic delivery with the maximum of space and crew efficiency. Unlike rivals, it was not built for conversion in wartime to a warship, so it was cheaper to build and carried twice the cargo, and could be handled by a smaller crew. Construction by specialized shipyards using new tools made it half the cost of rival ships. These factors combined to sharply lower the cost of transportation for Dutch merchants, giving them a major competitive advantage.[3][4]: 20 The fluyt was a significant factor in the 17th-century rise of the Dutch seaborne empire.[4]: 68 In 1670 the Dutch merchant marine totalled 568,000 tons of shipping—about half the European total.[5]
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A fluyt (archaic Dutch: fluijt "flute"; Dutch pronunciation: [flœyt] ) is a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed by the shipwrights of Hoorn...
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built in Nantes that the French Royal Navy purchased and commissioned as a fluyt. In 1781, she was reclassified as a fireship and renamed Pulvérisateur,...
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rendering an enemy vulnerable Floating fuel station A fuel dispensing vessel Fluyt A Dutch-made vessel from the Golden Age of Sail, with multiple decks and...
believed that the Flying Dutchman was a 17th-century cargo vessel known as a fluyt. The first known print reference to the ship appears in Travels in various...
being fine-tuned to optimize the output. Pirklbauer, Jan; Sach, Marvin; Fluyt, Kristoff (2023). "Evaluation Metrics for Generative Speech Enhancement...
shipbreaker c. 1624 General characteristics Class and type Dutch cargo fluyt Tonnage 180+ tons Length ~80–90 ft (24–27 m) on deck, 100–110 ft (30–34 m)...
Another example of tumblehome hull design were the Dutch fluyt, 17th century cargo sailing vessels. Fluyt ships were designed to facilitate transoceanic delivery...
twenty-eight galliots, and nine fireships. Transports included seventy-six fluyts for the soldiers, one hundred and twenty small transports with five thousand...
to 400 tons (bm), similar to a ketch, with a rounded fore and aft like a fluyt. Galiots had nearly flat bottoms to sail in shallow waters. These ships...
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