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- of the production of brigs. They were replaced in commercial traffic by gaffsail schooners (which needed fewer personnel) and steam boats. HMS Pilot, a...
- attached to the foot of a fore-and-aft sail. 3.  A spar to extend the foot of gaffsail, trysail or jib. 3.  A spar to extend the yards of square-rigged masts...
- rigging was changed to a four-masted barquentine by replacing the fore gaffsail (course sail) by two main staysails. The third (top) main staysail is still...
- she was built along merchant vessel lines and included trysail mast and gaffsail on all three masts to enable her to work to windward in strong winds. Her...