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A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). [1] The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts.
The brigantine Yankee was a steel hulled schooner, originally constructed by Nordseewerke, Emden, Germany as the Emden, renamed Duhnen, 1919. As Yankee, it became famous as the ship that was used by Irving Johnson and Exy Johnson to circumnavigate the globe four times in eleven years. [1] She appeared on the cover of National Geographic in ...
The word brig has been used in the past as an abbreviation of brigantine (which is the name for a two-masted vessel with foremast fully square rigged and her mainmast rigged with both a fore-and-aft mainsail, square topsails and possibly topgallant sails). The brig actually developed as a variant of the brigantine.
Brigantine; Sail Area: 5,032 sq ft (467 m 2). Two Masts, 13 Sails; Note: While it is customary to refer to these vessels as "brigantines" today, the classic definition of that rig would require one or more square sails on the mainmast. As rigged, these vessels would have been called "hermaphrodite schooners" in the 19th century and earlier ...
The following are or were sailing vessels rigged as brigantines. ... Pizarro (brigantine) TS Playfair; R. Robert C. Seamans (ship) S. Sally (1764 ship) St. Lawrence II;
SSV Robert C. Seamans is a 134-foot steel sailing brigantine operated by the Sea Education Association (SEA) for oceanographic research and sail training; designed by Laurent Giles, she is named for former Secretary of the Air Force and NASA Deputy Administrator, Robert Channing Seamans, a former Chairman and Trustee of SEA's board.
Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships. It is sorted by overall length.
She is the largest brigantine in the world, as well as the largest two masted sailing vessel, with an overall length of 61 metres (200 ft). She carries a maximum of 1,300 square metres (14,000 sq ft) of sail, and with an air draft of 44 metres (144 ft) is one of the tallest of the tall ships. She currently operates as a charter vessel in Europe.