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  2. Brigantine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Category:Brigantines - Wikipedia

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  4. Brigantine, New Jersey - Wikipedia

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    Brigantine (or simply The Island) is a city in Atlantic County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census , the city's population was 7,716, [ 12 ] a decrease of 1,734 (−18.3%) from the 2010 census count of 9,450, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] which in turn reflected a decline of 3,144 (−25.0%) from the 12,594 counted in the 2000 ...

  5. Massachusetts Naval Militia - Wikipedia

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    The brigantine Active, a prize taken by Hazard, was purchased in 1779. [7] In April 1778, construction was authorized on the largest ship in the state navy. Protector , a 28-gun frigate and a crew complement of 200, was launched in the fall of 1779.

  6. Dei Gratia (brigantine) - Wikipedia

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    Dei Gratia was a Canadian brigantine built in Bear River, Nova Scotia in 1871. The brigantine was named after the Latin phrase for "By the Grace of God".She became famous in 1872 when, under the command of David Reed Morehouse, she discovered the ghost ship Mary Celeste without any crew near the Azores.

  7. Chilean brigantine Aquiles (1825) - Wikipedia

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    Aquiles was a Spanish brigantine of unknown builder that sailed on 13 January 1824 from Cadiz and arrived to Callao on 12 September 1824 to support the Spanish troops in America. After the defeat of the Battle of Ayacucho , the Asia , Aquiles , brigantine Constante and the merchant ship Clarington sailed on 2 January 1825 from Quilca to Manila ...

  8. Brigantes - Wikipedia

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    The name Brigantes (Βρίγαντες in Ancient Greek) shares the same Proto-Celtic root as the goddess Brigantia, *brigantī, brigant-meaning 'high, elevated', and it is unclear whether settlements called Brigantium were so named as 'high ones' in a metaphorical sense of nobility, or literally as 'highlanders', or inhabitants of physically elevated fortifications.

  9. Pizarro (brigantine) - Wikipedia

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    Pizarro was a brigantine in the service of the Chilean Ministry of the Interior between 1858 and 1859. [1]Pizarro was built in Spain.While she was at Valparaíso, Chile, her original private owners thought she was in such a bad state that she would not be able to return to Europe.