Ships & Their Parts
Sailing Words
Weapons & Punishments
Instruments & Jobs
Pirate Terminology
100
An old type of ship moved along by oars and/or sails (a) Boatswain (b) Sloop (c) Galley
(c) Galley
100
What is word for the right side of a boat or ship? (a) fore (b) starboard (c) lee
(b) starboard
100
A short, slightly curved sword with a single cutting edge. (a) dagger (b) cutlass (c) blunderbus
(b) cutlass
100
An instrument used to determine direction. (a) sextant (b) capstan (c) compass
(c) compass
100
A person who is not use to or knows little about life at sea. (a) Boatswain (b) Landlubber (c) rogue
(b) Landlubber
200
A single masted sailing boat (a) sloop (b) Rogue (c) Schooner
(a) sloop
200
The side or part of a ship that is turned away or protected from the wind. (a) lee (b) keel (c) port
(a) lee
200
A short hand gun with a wide, flaring muzzle. (a) musket (b) sextant (c) blunderbus
(c) blunderbus
200
An instrument used for winding in ropes, cables, etc. (a) Doubloon (b) capstan (c) sextant
(b) capstan
200
An old Spanish, Spanish American gold coin. (a) Barnacle (b) Ballast (c) Doubloon
(c) Doubloon
300
A sailing vessel that has at least 2 masts (a) Doubloon (b) Careen (c) Schooner
(c) Schooner
300
At or towards the front of a ship
Fore
300
A long barrelled, muzzle-loading shoulder gun used in the 16th and 18th centuries. (a) musket (b) doubloon (c) capstan
(a) musket
300
The person on a ship who is in charge of rigging, anchors, deck crew. (a) Buccaneer (b) Rogue (c) Boatswain
(c) Boatswain
300
Items taken from others by pirates e.g. treasure.
Booty
400
Ropes or chains that are used to support and work the mast and sails on a ship.
Rigging
400
At or towards the back of a ship.
Aft
400
To be put ashore or abandoned at sea as a form of punishment.
Maroon
400
An instrument used to measure and work out your position at sea.
Sextant
400
Another name for a pirate in the 16th - 18th centuries
Buccaneer
500
What is the name given to the 3rd mast on a ship that has three or more masts?
Mizzenmast
500
A measurement of speed on water or when travelling through the air
Knot
500
To abandon or destroy a vessel.
Scuttle
500
A person makes records or notes in this during the journey of a ship telling what happens during the trip.
Log
500
A person who had permission from a government to cause trouble or steal from ships that came from other countries.
privateer
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