Golet , galet , gulet ( fr. Goelette - schooner ) - sailing and rowing two-masted merchant ship or warship of European states of the XVIII - beginning of the XIX century. At the turn of the XIX — XX centuries, the name “Golet” was supplanted by the name “schooner”.
Construction
A typical ship of this type had a gaff yacht as a schooner . Between the masts he carried a main-staysail , sometimes instead of him he carried stitages with topsails and bom-topsails . On the bowsprit there were two jib sail or jib and staysail [1] .
The total length of the vessel was 17–23 meters, width 5.2–9.1 meters, board height 1.8–3.4 meters, carrying capacity 50–100 tons. Artillery armament of such ships consisted of 3 - 26 guns. They had a good ability to maneuver and could be controlled by a small crew.
History
For the Baltic and Black Sea fleets of the Russian Empire , about three dozen golets were built; their drawings were created by G. S. Isakov , I. V. Kurepanov , A. S. Katasanov [2] . Military goleta were widely used in the Russian skerry fleet , and the transport mainly in the Black and Azov seas [3] [4] .
Notes
- ↑ K. I. Samoilov. Golet // Marine Dictionary. - L .: Naval Publishing House of the USSR NKVMF, 1939. - Vol. 1. - Stb. 253
- ↑ Golet // Marine Encyclopedic Dictionary / V. V. Dmitriev. - L .: "Shipbuilding", 1991. - T. 1. - p. 339. - 504 p. - ISBN 5-7355-0280-8 .
- ↑ Golet // Marine Encyclopedic Reference / NN Isanin . - L .: “Shipbuilding”, 1987. - T. 1. - p. 189. - 512 p. - 30 000 copies
- ↑ Yu. N. Pavlyuchenko, A. A. Gundobin, G. P. Turmov. Golet // Architecture of ships and ships. Concise marine dictionary. - Vladivostok : Far Eastern University Publishing House, 1992. - P. 58. - ISBN 5-7444-0120-2 .