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A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). [1] The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts.
Replica of the Victoria, the only one of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships to return to Spain in 1522, showing both a forecastle (left) and quarterdeck (right).. The forecastle (/ ˈ f oʊ k s əl / ⓘ FOHK-səl; contracted as fo'c'sle or fo'c's'le) [1] [2] is the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or, historically, the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters.
A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. 1618–1620 A Spanish galleon Carracks, galleon (center/right), square rigged caravel (below), galley and fusta (galliot) depicted by D. João de Castro on the "Suez Expedition" (part of the Portuguese Armada of 72 ships sent against the Ottoman fleet anchor in Suez, Egypt, in response to its entry in ...
Therefore, in a brig, the forward mast is the foremast and the after mast is the mainmast. In a schooner with two masts, even if the masts are of the same height, the after one usually carries a larger sail (because a longer boom can be used), so the after mast is the mainmast.
Fluyt: a Dutch oceangoing merchant vessel, rigged similarly to a galleon; Galleon: a large, primarily square-rigged, armed cargo carrier of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Junk: a lug-rigged Chinese ship, which included many types, models and variants. Koch: small, Russian clinker-built ship, designed for use in Arctic waters
A barquentine or schooner barque (alternatively "barkentine" or "schooner bark") is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts.
The Encarnación sank in 1681 during a storm near the mouth of the Chagres River on the Caribbean side of Panama. The Encarnación sank in less than 40 feet of water. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] The remains of the Urca de Lima from the 1715 fleet and the San Pedro from the 1733 fleet , after being found by treasure hunters, are now protected as Florida ...
Spanish galleon San José; San Juan Bautista (ship) San Juanillo; San Miguel (1551 shipwreck) San Salvador (Guipúzcoan squadron) San Salvador (Cabrillo's ship) Santa Luzia (galleon) Santa Rosa (1726) Santa Teresa (1637) Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad (1751) São João Baptista (galleon) São Martinho (1580)