- Look up
lateen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
lateen (from
French latine,
meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a
triangular sail set on a long yard...
- to
explore along the West
African coast and into the
Atlantic Ocean. The
lateen sails gave it
speed and the
capacity for
sailing windward (beating). Caravels...
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sometimes known as the
Oceanic lateen or the
Oceanic sprit, even
though it is not
restricted to Oceania, is
neither a
lateen sail nor a spritsail, and has...
- of the mid-1600s.
Galleons generally carried three or more
masts with a
lateen fore-and-aft rig on the rear masts, were
carvel built with a
prominent squared...
-
square rig and
lateen were very similar.
Lateen provided a
cheaper rig to
build and maintain, with no
degradation of performance. The
lateen was adopted...
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ships similar to
galleys primarily used by
Barbary pirates,
which have both
lateen sails and oars for propulsion.
Early xebecs had two
masts while later ships...
- century, a
brigantine referred to a sail- and oar-driven war vessel. It was
lateen rigged on two
masts and had
between eight and
twelve oars on each side....
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vessels often with a
lateen hoisted on the
foremast (which was
slanted forward to
accommodate the
large lateen yard) and a gaff or
lateen on the
mizzen mast...
- three-masted ship
Carrack Three or four
masted ship, square-rigged forward,
lateen-rigged aft; 14th–16th
century successor to the cog
Cartel A
small boat used...
- mizzen: the
fourth mast on
larger sixteenth-century galleons,
typically lateen-rigged and
shorter than the main mizzen. Jigger-mast: typically,
where it...
