A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. Such a vessel is said to...
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The full-rigged pinnace was the larger of two types of vessel called a pinnace in use from the sixteenth century. The word pinnace, and similar words...
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sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged ship, said to be "ship-rigged"...
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classifications are not all mutually exclusive; a vessel may be both a full-rigged ship by description, and a collier or frigate by function. Aircraft Carrier...
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Barque (redirect from Bark (ship))
going to windward than a full-rigged ship. While a full-rigged ship is the best runner available, and while fore-and-aft rigged vessels are the best at...
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A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques....
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Named after Euterpe, the Greek muse of music, she was a full-rigged ship (a ship that is square-rigged on all three masts), built of iron in 1863 by Gibson...
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a full-rigged ship; only that there is a small mast behind the mainmast of the former, which carries a sail nearly resembling the mizzen of a ship. — Captain...
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Galleon (redirect from Galleon (ship))
prototype of all square-rigged ships with three or more masts for over two and a half centuries, including the later full-rigged ship. The principal warships...
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tips, outside the lifts, are called the yardarms. A ship mainly rigged so is called a square-rigger. In 'Jackspeak' (Royal Navy slang) it also refers to...
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