sailing vessels |
Extra info: The list with all of our ships can be found just under this summary. |
extra info: "S" means that the ship was scrapped, "M" stands for museum ship and "C" is that the ship is converted and still in service |
Summary of the most common types |
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Full-rigged Ship |
Barque |
Brig |
A vessel that has at least three masts, all of them fully square rigged is called a full-rigged ship or just a ship. Most such ships also have a small gaff sail on their sternmost mast. |
A barque is a vessel with at least three masts, all of them fully square rigged except for the sternmost one, which is fore-and-aft rigged. |
A brig is a two-masted vessel with both masts square rigged. On the aft mast, the main mast, there is also a gaff sail, in some languages referred to as the brig sail but in English often called the spanker. |
Schooner |
Barquentine |
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The schooner is not a specific kind of vessel, but a large family of ship types. What every schooner has in common is that it's mainly fore-and-aft rigged (the main sail must be a fore-and-aft sail), and that it has at least two masts (a foremast and a mainmast; a two-masted vessel with a mainmast and a mizzen mast is not a schooner). |
A barquentine is a vessel with at least three masts, all of them fore-and-aft rigged, except for the foremost one, which is square rigged. |
A brigantine is a two-masted vessel with her foremast fully square rigged and her mainmast rigged with both a fore-and-aft mainsail (usually a gaff sail) and square topsails (and possibly topgallant sails). |
Ketch |
Cutter |
Sloop |
A ketch is a two-masted fore-and-aft rigged vessel with the first mast taller than the aft mast, and the steering position behind the aft mast (the mizzen mast). |
A cutter is a one-masted fore-and-aft rigged vessel with more than one jib (staysail) before the mast. |
A sloop is a one-masted fore-and-aft rigged vessel with one jib (staysail) before the mast. |
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