Schooner - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Originally a small sharp built vessel with two masts and fore and aft rig Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner About 1840 longer vessels with three masts fore and aft rigged came into use and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts so rigged are built Schooners with more than two masts are designated three masted schooners four masted schooners etc See Illustration in Appendix...
Ballahoo
A fast sailing schooner used in the Bermudas and West Indies...
Barkentine
A threemasted vessel having the foremast square rigged and the others schooner rigged Spelled also barquentine barkantine etc See Illust in Append...
Masted
Furnished with a mast or masts chiefly in composition as a three masted schooner...
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