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- masts, all of them square-rigged. Such a vessel is said to have a ship rig or be ship-rigged, with each mast stepped in three segments: lower, top, and topgallant...
- mainmast, and any additional masts are rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) is rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen...
- A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel. Po****r modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques....
- 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"...
- single-masted vessel rigged in a way that would today be called a gaff cutter (but usually without the square topsails then carried by cutter-rigged vessels), though...
- sails on every mast Brig: two square-rigged masts and headsails Fully rigged ship: three or more (all) square-rigged masts and headsails With some masts...
- be referred to as a full-rigged ship or a vessel may be described as "ship-rigged". Alongside this rig-specific usage, "ship" continued to have the more...
- 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...
- smaller, two, sometimes three-masted ship Carrack Three or four masted ship, square-rigged forward, lateen-rigged aft; 14th–16th century successor to the...
- A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century...