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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 ...
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 census. [24]
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Brigantine Good Fortune (18 April 1721 - April 1723) Thomas Anstis (died April 1723) was an early 18th-century pirate, who served under Captain Howell Davis and Captain Bartholomew Roberts , before setting up on his own account, raiding shipping on the eastern coast of the American colonies and in the Caribbean during what is often referred to ...
Søren Larsen was re-decked with iroko, she was re-masted with Douglas fir, and re-rigged as a 19th-century-style brigantine. [1] The new masts gave the ship a mast height of 30.5 metres (100 ft), and she was outfitted with 627 square metres (6,750 sq ft) of sail. [2] The vessel's homeport was changed to Colchester in the United Kingdom. [2]
Nancy was an American sailing vessel, noted in sources as either a brig or a brigantine, that was chartered to transport war supplies during the American Revolutionary War. After learning that independence had been declared, her captain, according to his daughter, raised the first American flag in a foreign port.
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 second USS Porpoise was a 224-ton Dolphin-class brigantine. (In early American usage, a brigantine was referred to as a hermaphrodite brig.) Porpoise was later re-rigged as a brig. She was based on the same plans as Dolphin.