{"id":2234,"date":"2020-08-20T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/werft.nauticalfiction.net\/de\/?page_id=2234"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:11:51","slug":"hintergrundwissen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nauticalfiction.net\/uk\/hintergrundwissen\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Age of Sail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Golden Age of Sailing Warships<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, large sailing ships ruled the oceans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an age of adventure that inspired many tales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, I would like to give you some background information on these stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The variety of ships, the men who sailed them, the weapons they fought with, and the historical context in which it all took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-features so-widget-sow-features-default-91a0bd70ae09\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><ul\n\tclass=\"sow-features-list\n\tsow-features-responsive\">\n\n\t\t\t<li\n\t\t\tclass=\"sow-features-feature sow-icon-container-position-top\"\n\t\t\tstyle=\"display: flex; 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