In the age of sail especially for warships an important role was the collection of drinking water.

Timeline of ships boats and yachts. These European Cargo Ships are from the 15th century. 4000 BC - 2500 BC Egyptians was the first man to travel in water. First boats include rafts skin hide and bark boats kayaks and dugouts.

It is Greek fire first used in the 7th century. A second and third mast was added to this ship to catch more wind. Huckins reintroduces the elegance of 1950s and 60s yachting.

There was a large variety mostly based on much older conservative designs. Ships boats have always provided communication with the shore and with other ships. In modern use the term designates two different classes of watercraft namely sailing and power yachts boats.

Modern Ships 1912 A practically unsinkable luxury liner called Titanic secures a place in history as the most famous ocean catastrophe of all time when it hits an iceberg and sinks killing over 1500 people. The ship is made up of wooden planks. Egyptian civilization developed along Nile River making maritime transportation essential to trade.

These ships were considerably larger than other ships and could therefore carry more cargo. Airboat a light flat-bottomed boat driven by a propeller revolving in the air aircraft carrier a warship built with an extensive flat deck space for the launch and recovery of aircraft auxiliary a vessel such as a tug hospital ship etc not used for combat banker a fishing vessel of Newfoundland barge a boat allocated to a flag officer used esp for ceremonial occasions and often carried on board his. A swift design of boat powered by oars is developed in northwest Europe from the 5th century onwards when the Germanic tribesbegin raiding by sea.

Both the earliest civilizations the Egyptian and the Mesopotamian make extensive use of boats for transport on the Nile Euphrates and Tigris. From Navy ships to luxury yachts and fishing boats it is truly marvelous how humans have constructed countless ways to navigate the seas and rivers throughout history. The Egyptian reed boats had a mast and sails and were used on the river Nile.