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The world’s largest wind-powered cargo ship just made its first delivery across the Atlantic (www.fastcompany.com)

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[+] Tramort -9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The headline says largest, not first?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's also not the largest. During the age of sail one of the largest shipping boat was almost 8 times larger than this one. They are just playing the technicality of being wind powered and not a sail ship to con startup investors out of their money. But there have been even larger sail cruise ships. It's just the game tech bros play, reinventing the wheel but coming up with a catchy marketing name that looks like disrupting the status quo to bait capital injection.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If someone asks what is the world's largest reptile, the answer is a saltwater croc and not an ichthyosaur. It doesn't say largest ever.

[–] 0x0 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not the komodo?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I googled it right before commenting, I was going to put komodo but turns out the saltwater croc is way bigger.

Here's from the wiki:

The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile.[5] Males can grow up to a weight of 1,000–1,500 kg (2,200–3,300 lb) and a length of 6 m (20 ft), rarely exceeding 6.3 m (21 ft).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Still by that standard, there are larger sail ships today. Just not cargo ships, but cruise ships. It's still a manipulative statement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

On 5 November 1910,[2][3] on her 14th outbound voyage, carrying a mixed cargo including a number of pianos for Chile, Preussen was at 23:35 rammed by the small British cross-channel steamer Brighton 8 nautical miles (15 km) south of Newhaven.[4] Contrary to regulations, Brighton had tried to cross her bows, underestimating her high speed of 16 knots (30 km/h). Preussen was seriously damaged and lost much of her forward rigging (bowsprit, fore topgallant mast), making it impossible to steer the ship to safety.

Brighton returned to Newhaven to summon aid and the tug Alert was sent to assist Preussen. A November gale thwarted attempts to sail or tug her to safety in Dover Harbour. It was intended to anchor her off Dover, but both anchor chains broke, and Preussen was driven onto rocks at Crab Bay, where she sank as a result of the damage inflicted on her. While crew, cargo and some equipment could be saved from Preussen, with the keel broken she was rendered unsalvageable. She sits in 6 metres (3.3 fathoms) of water at 51°8.02′N 1°22.17′E. The Master of Brighton was found to be responsible for the accident and lost his licence as a result. A few ribs of Preussen can be seen off Crab Bay at low spring tides.

Wow, that captain messed up big time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For some reason I also read "first" the first time I looked at the title

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

it was the first time in nearly a century that a large cargo ship crossed the Atlantic powered almost entirely by the wind.

Not that far off, really

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good thing we have highly trained historians on Lemmy to tell us these things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oh wow who would've thought?