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An armed vessel used for raiding disguised as a merchant vessel Mistico Small, fast two or three-masted Mediterranean sailing vessel Monitor A small, very heavily gunned warship with shallow draft, designed for coastal operations Motor ship or motor vessel A vessel powered by a non-steam engine, typically diesel. Ship prefix MS or MV Nef
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.
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. B. Brigantines (5 C, 31 P) Brigs (6 C, 46 P) Pages in category "Two-masted ships"
Tourism/charter vessel 2 masted gaff [16] Argo: 2006 Road Town, Tortola: Education/sail training vessel 2 masted Marconi/ staysail [17] Atalanta: 1901 Wismar: Education/sail training and charter vessel 2 masted gaff [18] Athos: 2010: World's largest two-mast schooner at launch: 2-mast Bermuda: Atlantic: 2010 Douglas, Isle of Man
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.
Sistership of the flybridge steel sloop Heritage II: Saudade IX: 45.19 m (148 ft) Wally Fano: William Henry Tripp III: 2008: Aramid foam core/prepreg carbonfiber sandwich sloop Windy: 45.00 m (148 ft) Detyens Shipyard: Robert Marthai: 1995: Steel four-masted schooner Aiglon: 45.00 m (148 ft) Abeking & Rasmussen: André Mauric: 1970: Auxiliary ...
Colombia has launched the initial phase of an underwater expedition to explore a Spanish warship that sank in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago – believed to contain billions of dollars ...
The word 'snow' comes from 'snauw', which is an old Dutch word for beak, a reference to the characteristic sharp bow of the vessel. [1] The snow evolved from the (three-masted) ship: the mizzen mast of a ship was gradually moved closer towards the mainmast, until the mizzen mast was no longer a separate mast, but was instead made fast at the main mast top.