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Warburton's love of sailing brought him across the Atlantic twice, once as sailing master in 1972, and returning in 1973 as skipper aboard the 72 ft brigantine Black Pearl. Warburton sailed with his father regularly, and joined him in Opsail ’64, New York, Tall Ships '72, Cowes, Malmo and Travemünde, and then again in '76 from Newport ...
The word brig has been used in the past as an abbreviation of brigantine (which is the name for a two-masted vessel with foremast fully square rigged and her mainmast rigged with both a fore-and-aft mainsail, square topsails and possibly topgallant sails). The brig actually developed as a variant of the brigantine.
The brigantine was the second-most popular rig for ships built in the British colonies in North America before 1775, after the sloop. [6] The brigantine was swifter and more easily maneuvered than a sloop or schooner, hence was employed for piracy, espionage, and reconnoitering, and as an outlying attendant upon large ships for protecting a ...
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A new free art space will open on the east side of Fort Worth to empower underrepresented artists and share their work with the community. The Tubman Gallery, in partnership with CommUnity ...
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Black Pearl (yacht), a sailing yacht launched in 2016; Black Pearl, New Orleans, a neighborhood in Louisiana, US; Black Pearl, a community art installation at New Brighton, Merseyside, England; Black Pearl, subname of Louis XIII (cognac) Black Pearl, a brigantine once owned by Barclay H. Warburton III, and the restaurant named after it
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.