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Ship class
A ship class is a group of ships, usually warships, built to substantially the same design and typically named for the lead ship, as distinct from ship types such as destroyer.
Ship delivery
Ship delivery is the shipbuilding stage at which the builder hands the completed vessel over to the buyer after sea trials, when title and risk pass.
Ship loader
A ship loader is a large conveyor-based machine at a port that loads bulk cargo such as coal, ore, and grain into a ship's holds.
Ship model basin
A ship model basin is a water tank laboratory where scale models of ships are towed to predict full-size performance, begun by William Froude in 1872.
Ship mortgage
A ship mortgage is a registered security interest in a vessel granted by its owner to a lender to secure a loan, enforceable against the ship through arrest and sale.
Ship naming and launching
Ship naming and launching is the ceremony in which a new ship is blessed, named, and entered into the water, usually with a sponsor breaking a bottle of champagne.
Ship of Fools (film)
Ship of Fools (1965) is Stanley Kramer's drama adapted from Katherine Anne Porter's novel, set on a 1933 German liner bound for Bremerhaven; it starred Vivien Leigh in her final film and won two Oscars from eight nominations.
Ship of Fools (satire)
Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff), Sebastian Brant's 1494 Basel satire of 112 fools sailing to Narragonia, with Dürer woodcuts, Locher's 1497 Latin Stultifera navis, and translations into French, Dutch, and English by 1509.
Ship of the line
A ship of the line, or line-of-battle ship, was a heavily armed sailing warship of the 17th to early 19th century, built to fight in the line-of-battle formation.
Ship of Theseus
The Ship of Theseus, or Theseus's paradox, is a metaphysics thought experiment from Plutarch's Life of Theseus, extended by Hobbes in De Corpore, asking whether a ship with every plank replaced remains the same object.
Ship of Theseus (film)
Ship of Theseus is a 2012 Indian drama film, Anand Gandhi's debut, applying Plutarch's identity paradox through three stories of a blind photographer, a Jain monk, and a stockbroker; it won the 2014 National Film Award for Best Feature Film.
Ship prefix
A ship prefix is a short code placed before a ship's name, as in USS Enterprise or RMS Titanic, identifying its navy, nationality, propulsion type, or service role.
Ship registration
Ship registration is the act of entering a vessel in a State's official register of ships, giving it that State's nationality and the right to fly its flag.
Ship Self-Defense System
The Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS) is the US Navy's integrated combat system for non-Aegis carriers and amphibious ships, automating detection and engagement of anti-ship cruise missiles.
Ship to Shore Connector
The Ship to Shore Connector (SSC) is an amphibious air cushion landing craft built by Textron Systems to replace the United States Navy's LCAC fleet.
Ship-Submarine Recycling Program
The Ship-Submarine Recycling Program (SRP) is the US Navy's program for disposing of defueled nuclear submarines and cruisers, centered at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, since 1991.
Ship's bell
A ship's bell is a bell carried aboard a vessel to mark the passage of time, sound fog signals, and serve ceremonies, with records dating to around 1436.
Ship's cat
A ship's cat is a cat carried aboard a vessel, historically to catch rats and mice damaging stores and ropes, and to serve as companion and mascot.
Ship's wheel
A ship's wheel, also called a boat's wheel, is the spoked steering wheel a helmsman turns to control a ship's rudder, replacing the whipstaff in the early 1700s.
Shipai Village (石牌村)
Shipai Village (石牌村) is Guangzhou's biggest and oldest urban village, founded in 1273 in Tianhe District; restructured in 1997 as Sanjun Enterprise Group, it houses tens of thousands of migrants in dense self-built rental housing.
Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding, also called ship construction or the shipbuilding industry, designs and constructs ships at shipyards, an industry tied to maritime transport carrying over 80% of world trade.
Shipbuilding steel
Shipbuilding steel is the family of plate and section steels certified by classification societies for ship hulls and marine structures, typically mild steel with controlled strength, weldability, and resistance to brittle fracture.
Shipi San
实脾散 (Shipi San, also 实脾饮), a classical Chinese medicine formula from Yan Yonghe's Jisheng Fang (1253); warms yang, boosts the spleen, moves qi, drains water; treats spleen-kidney yang deficiency yin-water edema; derived from Zhenwu Tang.
Shipin (Gradings of Poets)
Shipin (诗品) is a work of poetry criticism by Zhong Rong of the Liang dynasty, ranking 123 poets in three grades as China's first systematic work of criticism.
Shiping Zhu
Shiping Zhu is a chemical engineer known for polymer reaction engineering, Presidential Chair Professor and Vice President at CUHK-Shenzhen since 2017 and Professor Emeritus at McMaster University.
Shipitbaal I (king of Byblos)
Shipitbaal I (Šipitba'al) was an early king of Byblos who reigned around 900–880 BC and is known from the Phoenician royal inscription KAI 7, which names his father Elibaal.
Shipitbaal III (king of Byblos)
Shipitbaal III was a king of Byblos around 500 BC, the first attested ruler of the city in the Persian period, known only from a descendant's inscription and a silver roll.
Shipitbaal inscription
The Shipitbaal inscription (Šipitbaal) is a Phoenician royal building inscription of Shipitbaal, king of Byblos, recording his rebuilding of a wall for the Mistress of Byblos, dated to about 900–880 BC.
Shiplap
Shiplap is a wooden board with rabbeted edges that overlap, long used as exterior siding and sheathing, and since the 2010s as decorative interior paneling.
Shipova
Shipova (×Sorbopyrus auricularis), the Bollwiller pear, is a rare nearly sterile pear × whitebeam hybrid from Bollwiller, Alsace, before 1610, propagated by grafting, slow to fruit, with sweet yellow apricot-sized fruit.