The ship was a tall ship, a square-rigged brigantine. From Wordnik.com. [SUNK] Reference
The lowest yard on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced] Reference
She could outsail her square-rigged pursuers, and she did. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
"It's a fantastic chance to learn about sailing a square-rigged boat.". From Wordnik.com. [Sailing home with the Vikings] Reference
Ocean in forty different square-rigged vessels; have trod the plains of. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
The two masts were square-rigged, apart from a fore-and-aft mizzen sail. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Two square-rigged sails were mounted on separate masts set fore and aft. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
The Dido was the first square-rigged vessel that had ever entered those waters. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
When all the masts are square-rigged, the names are bowmast, foremast, main and mizzen. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
The ship was a large one, square-rigged, and had three masts, it being of good tonnage. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
I heard of him after the war as being a member of the crew of a square-rigged sailing ship. From Wordnik.com. [Coming of Age: 1939-1946] Reference
If the aftermost mast is not square-rigged, the order is foremast, main, mizzen and jigger. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
Yardarm is the fing that teh sail hang frum on wun ob dem old timey square-rigged sailin shipses. From Wordnik.com. [Sloe death - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
"Though why an old square-rigged reme would be out so far from the coast, I cannot begin to guess.". From Wordnik.com. [Mortalis]
There were also a few square-rigged trading-vessels, and twenty or thirty native praus of various sizes. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
The “Chancellor” is a fine square-rigged three-master, of 900 tons burden, and belongs to the wealthy. From Wordnik.com. [The Survivors of the Chancellor] Reference
Each hull boasted a pair of masts, one square-rigged for speed, the other fore-rigged for maneuverability. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
The sovereigns of Siam and Cochin China have recently built and fitted-out several square-rigged vessels, those of. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
She was a side-wheeler, with a thin raking funnel, and was square-rigged on her fore-mast, fore-and-aft on her mizzen. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Exactly ten years ago - on this very day - I was living on a square-rigged sailing ship as it circumnavigated the globe. From Wordnik.com. [10 years ago today...] Reference
The square-rigged pirate craft could not tack as well as the modern, fore-rigged sloop, nor could it overtake them on oar power. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Dissonance]
T. Momfanoi, the introducer of square-rigged vessels and many other improvements, and afterward as King Somdet Phra Pawarendr Kamesr Maha. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
The Eidolon, moored at pier number one, the one closest to the sea, carried one square-rigged mast and whatever they called a sloop's mast. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic of Recluce]
A moderate breeze from the north and east had been blowing ever since daylight and every stitch of canvas on board the square-rigged steamer in our wake was drawing. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
Prince Maurice, that the largest square-rigged vessels of Holland and. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
She was square-rigged on the foremast, carrying fore-topsail and fore-course. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
Conrad would rather be whipped than go from New York to Liverpool on a square-rigged ship. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
Every man is a soldier and wears his square-rigged hat, sword, epaulets, and military uniform. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference
I looked again, and made out the royals and part of the topgallant-sails of a square-rigged vessel. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilds of Africa] Reference
Yeo's squadron was mostly square-rigged, and was therefore equally serviceable in all kinds of weather. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
He is said to have owned eighty square-rigged vessels in this port, from which not one such craft now sails. From Wordnik.com. [Oldport Days] Reference
First I made out the topgallant-sails; then the topsails; and at last the courses of a square-rigged schooner. From Wordnik.com. [Old Jack] Reference
The square-rigged ship, or bark, has been very largely replaced by the fore-and-aft, or schooner-rigged vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference
Captain Swarth looked at the square-rigged ship, now on the port quarter -- an ill-defined blur to his imperfect vision. From Wordnik.com. ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference
That she was "square-rigged," and generally of the then prevalent style of vessels of her size and class, is altogether probable. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
She had three masts, two of them square-rigged, with a latine sail on the mizzen mast; and she carried a crew of fifty-two persons. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 2] Reference
While the work was progressing, a square-rigged ship hove in sight, and was soon made out to be one of the enemy's twenty-gun ships. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
"She is a square-rigged craft of about three or four hundred tons, under close-reefed topsails, lying end-on to us, sir," answered the man. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast] Reference
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