Uli: reliance

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND "Reliance" was the largest sloop ever built. At 200 feet (61 m) overall sparred length, with the top of the topyard 215 feet (65.60 m) above the water, she carried more than 16,000 feet (1490 m.sq.) of sail, giving her more sail area than the clippership "Flying Cloud". Designed, engineered and built by Nat Herreshoff of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island, "Reliance" was an extreme design and a paragon of technical innovation. Her hull shape is that of a flat-sectioned scow, with a 20 feet (6.10 m) deep keel, so short in length as to be virtually a fin keel, with a bulb. She carried 90 tons of lead ballast. "Reliance" was constructed to give maximum strength and lightweight. Her hull was plated in bronze, steel and aluminium. http://www.gdnp.nl/

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