Brigantine
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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. The main mast is the second and tall
The steamship Columbia, an example of a late 19th-century brig-rigged vessel
Snow (ship)
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In sailing, a snow, snaw or snauw is a square-rigged vessel with two masts, complemented by a snow- or trysail-mast stepped immediately abaft the main mast.
Brigantine
…fully rigged ship - a mast, topmast, and topgallant mast. With the advent of modern (metal) pole masts, this last difference typically no longer exists. Snow (ship) Brig (ship…
1759 painting of a Royal Navy snow in two positions by Charles Brooking
The "snow-brig" USS Niagara (center) in 1913