Snow (ship)
A snow or snaw is a sailing vessel.[1] A type of brig (snows are often-referred to as "snow-brigs"), snows were primarily used as merchant ships, but saw war service as well. The twin brigs Lawrence and Niagara, American warships of the Battle of Lake Erie, were both snows.
Snows carried square sails on both masts, but had a small trysail mast, sometimes called a snowmast, stepped immediately abaft the mainmast. This mast could carry a trysail with a boom, with the luff of the trysail hooped to it. Sometimes, instead of a trysail mast, snows carried a horse on the mainmast, with the luff of the trysail attached to it by rings.
Snow: the largest of all old two-masted vessels. The sails and rigging on the main mast of a snow are exactly similar to those on the same masts in a ship; only that there is a small mast behind the mainmast of the former, which carries a sail nearly resembling the mizzen of a ship.
A snow, 'The Elizabeth', trading between Jamaica and Bristol, England, 1726 (It's Boswain, threw Captain & Mate overboard & took command, indicating a snow's command structure) : His Majesty's snow 'Happy' in 1700 also mentioned |Daniel Defoe|A General History of the Pyrates[3]}}
The Honourable English Company's snow 'The Elizabeth' mentioned on her captain's 1786 gravestone, Sri Lanka photo, ancestry.com
[edit] References
- ^ Abranson, Erik (1976). Ships of the High Seas. London: Eurobook Limited (Peter Lowe). pp. 14–17. ISBN 0856540196.
- ^ Defoe, Daniel (1999) [1724]. "The Introduction". In Schonhorn, Manuel. A General History of the Pyrates. Dover: Dover Publications. p. xlviii. ISBN 0486404889. http://books.google.com/books?id=aMn78z-oJ_cC&lpg=PR48&pg=PR48#v=onepage&q=snow&f=false. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
- ^ Defoe, Daniel (1999) [1724]. "The Introduction". In Schonhorn, Manuel. A General History of the Pyrates. Dover: Dover Publications. p. xlviii. ISBN 0486404889. http://books.google.com/books?id=aMn78z-oJ_cC&lpg=PR48&pg=PR48#v=onepage&q=snow&f=false. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
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