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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 ...
Barquentine is a fictional character in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. He is the son of Sourdust , the Master of Ritual of Gormenghast Castle. He is a one-legged, hunchbacked dwarf with a bitter, vicious personality; he never washes, he dresses in filthy rags, and his hair and beard are long, tangled and dirty.
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Since then the ship has been rebuilt several times. In 1992 another conversion took place, with more modern rigging and new interior fittings, and has since then been used as a sail charter ship. In 2001/2002 the hull was lengthened again and the ship was converted into a three-masted gaff schooner. In 2008/2009 it was converted to a ...
Sometime in the 1970s, Esmeralda's rigging was changed to a four-masted barquentine by replacing the fore gaffsail by two main staysails. The third (top) main staysail is still in place. She has now five staysails, three gaff topsails, six jibs, three gaff sails, four square sails, 21 all in all.
Skoda, a 658-ton barquentine, was built in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, designed by veteran master shipbuilder Ebenezer Cox.The barquentine marked the end of his thirty-year shipbuilding career, and was also the last deep sea vessel built and launched in Kingsport, bringing the shipbuilding era to a close at a yard that built some of the largest sailing ships in Canada.
Atlantis is a three-masted barquentine active as a sailing charter ship often cruising the Mediterranean and Baltic seas in Europe. History as a lightvessel [ edit ]
The Hera was a 4 mast 280 ft long steel barque, that foundered in rough weather on 30 January 1914. [1] [2]The wreck is now a popular site with scuba divers, [citation needed] at a maximum depth of around 18m it is suitable for levels from Open Water and up.