A pram or pramm describes a type of shallow-draught flat-bottomed ship, usually propelled by pushing the ship through the water using a long pole, although sailing prams also exist. The name pram derives from the Latin ''premere'' ("press
erb).
Historically, prams were often used to transport agricultural cargo or cattle through shallow canals and wetlands in Europe. During the times of the
Great Northern War
The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedi ...
, those types of watercraft were used as a
floating battery
A floating battery is a kind of armed watercraft, often improvised or experimental, which carries heavy armament but has few other qualities as a warship.
History
Use of timber rafts loaded with cannon by Danish defenders of Copenhagen a ...
for artillery support during amphibious assault.
There is also an unrelated type of
boat called "pram".
Gallery
File:Pram, Nicolaes Witsen (1671).jpg, Drawing of a 17th-century pram by Nicolaes Witsen
File:Praam.jpg, A pram in use, cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by soci ...
collection
Collection or Collections may refer to:
* Cash collection, the function of an accounts receivable department
* Collection (church), money donated by the congregation during a church service
* Collection agency, agency to collect cash
* Collectio ...
, Zuiderzee Museum
File:Zuideinde, Nieuwkoop. Praam met strorollen 02.jpg, Veense pram with thatching reed bales in Nieuwkoop
File:Wbtholen praam.jpg, W.B. Tholen
Willem Bastiaan Tholen (Amsterdam, 13 February 1860 – The Hague, 5 December 1931) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and printmaker with some connections to members of the Hague School and later associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. ...
, pram, collection of the Zuiderzee Museum
File:Boeierpraam 'De Hoop' in het Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen.jpg, Boeier pram ''De Hoop'' in the Zuiderzee Museum
File:Pram from Tavrov.JPG, Russian 44-gun pram of Tavrovo Admiralty
See also
*
Hull
Hull may refer to:
Structures
* Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle
* Fuselage, of an aircraft
* Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds
* Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
* Submarine hull
Mathematics
* Affine hull, in affi ...
*
Watercraft
Any vehicle used in or on water as well as underwater, including boats, ships, hovercraft and submarines, is a watercraft, also known as a water vessel or waterborne vessel. A watercraft usually has a propulsive capability (whether by sail, ...
References
Further reading
* ''Aeloude en Hedendaegse Scheepsbouw en Bestier''
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
1671.b (In archaic Dutch)
* ''Schepen die verdwijnen'' 1947. (In Dutch)
* ''Nederlandsche binnenschepen'' 1944. (In Dutch)
External links
Ship types
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