Spritsail (square-rigged)
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On large sailing ships a spritsail is a square-rigged sail carried on a yard below the bowsprit.
A replica of the Batavia setting a spritsail (lower right) and a sprit-topsail
Full-rigged ship
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A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. Such a vessel is said to have a ship rig or be ship-rigged, with each ma
Spritsail (square-rigged)
…the mid-18th century, most ships also set a sprit-topsail from the short sprit topmast that rose vertically above the fore end of the bowsprit. The full-rigged ships of the golden age of sail had no spritsails, as the area under the bowsprit was instead occupied by rigging (martingales and dolphin striker…
Full-rigged sailing ship Christian Radich
Full-rigged sailing ship Royal Clipper
Amerigo Vespucci, full-rigged ship of the Italian Marina Militare
Ship Garthsnaid at sea, c. 1920