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- rigged so is called a square-rigger. In 'Jackspeak' (Royal Navy slang) it also refers to the dress uniform of Junior Ratings. Single sail square rigs...
- with lateen rigged sails and the fore-mast with two square sails, and by its hull design which was narrower and longer. The square-rigged caravel was...
- A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. Such a vessel is said...
- Barquentine with one square-rigged mast and two fore-and-aft masts behind Full-rigged ship with three or more masts with square sails on each The following...
- rigged (main, mizzen, etc.) masts Bilander: two masts, main mast course sail lateen rigged, all others square rigged Schooner brig: one square-rigged...
- On large sailing ships a spritsail is a square-rigged sail carried on a yard below the bowsprit. One of the earliest depictions of a spritsail is carved...
- rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged...
- fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sails fore and aft, or as a gaff-rig with triangular foresail(s) and a gaff rigged mainsail...
- unweatherly – but most distinguishable for its square-rigged foremast, and three other masts bearing lateen rig. In this form it was referred to in Portuguese...
- yard arms with respect to the wind on square-rigged vessels. Full-rigged ship Bermuda rig Lateen rig Junk rig Shipbuilding Superstructure "Definition...