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A fully-rigged ship was a popular design, [52] and for some sailors it represented traversal of Cape Horn, an important trade route that was especially dangerous. [55] It could also indicate a skilled topman. [5]: 547 A clipper ship labeled "Homeward" or "Homeward Bound" was a reference to adventure and return. [56]
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. [1] Such a vessel is said to have a ship rig or be ship-rigged , with each mast stepped in three segments: lower, top, and topgallant.
Types of rig (ie the configuration of masts and sails) used on sailing vessels and specific items of rigging used on sailing vessels, from full-rigged ships to sailboats Contents Top
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This fully-rigged ship has a blue hull and employs all of the modern safety and navigation equipment as well as an engine which the 1638 vessel did not have. She is owned by the Kalmar Nyckel ...
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Ship or full-rigged ship Historically a sailing vessel with three or more full-rigged masts. "Ship" is now used for any large watercraft Ship of the line [of battle] A sailing warship generally of first, second or third rate, i.e., with 64 or more guns; until the mid eighteenth century fourth rates (50-60 guns) also served in the line of battle.
Niobe, training ship of the German navy, here rigged as jackass-barque (1930) Schematic view of a three-masted jackass barque sailing rig.. A jackass-barque, sometimes spelled jackass bark, is a sailing ship with three (or more) masts, of which the foremast is square-rigged and the main is partially square-rigged (topsail, topgallant, etc.) and partially fore-and-aft rigged (course).