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.
1759 painting of a Royal Navy snow in two positions by Charles Brooking
The "snow-brig" USS Niagara (center) in 1913
Sloop-of-war
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During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns. The rating system of the Royal Navy covered all vessels with 20 or
Snow (ship)
…Battle of Lake Erie in 1813, were both snow-brigs. In Patrick O'Brian's 1969 novel Master and Commander, the first in the Aubrey-Maturin series, the sloop HMS Sophie is disguised as a civilian snow by rigging a cable vertically behind the mainmast. Brig…
c. 1752 model of a 12-gun Royal Navy sloop
1831 painting of a Royal Navy Bermuda sloop entering a port in the West Indies by John Lynn
USS Portsmouth in 1896.
The Grimsby-class HMS Wellington. Launched in 1934, the vessel is now berthed on the Thames