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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...
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    full-rigged pinnace was the larger of two types of vessel called a pinnace in use from the sixteenth century. The word pinnace, and similar words in many...
    5 KB (519 words) - 03:45, 23 May 2024
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    Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and...
    10 KB (1,142 words) - 18:25, 29 July 2024
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    already in service at the time. Endeavour happened to be a full-rigged ship with a plain bluff bow and a full stern with windows. William Falconer's Dictionary...
    16 KB (1,813 words) - 17:13, 26 August 2024
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    Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular...
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    Lateen (redirect from Lateen rig)
    Look up lateen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A lateen (from French latine, meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard...
    22 KB (2,787 words) - 23:31, 4 July 2024
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    A Bermuda rig, Bermudian rig, or Marconi rig is a configuration of mast and rigging for a type of sailboat and is the typical configuration for most modern...
    15 KB (1,859 words) - 06:18, 18 May 2024
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    The junk rig, also known as the Chinese lugsail, Chinese balanced lug sail, or sampan rig, is a type of sail rig in which rigid members, called battens...
    35 KB (4,553 words) - 03:14, 16 June 2024
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    Schooner (redirect from Schooner rig)
    SKOO-nər) is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast...
    12 KB (1,372 words) - 21:20, 11 September 2024
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    Maltese Falcon (yacht) (category Articles lacking in-text citations from February 2021)
    Maltese Falcon is a full-rigged ship using DynaRig technology, which was built by Perini Navi in Tuzla, Istanbul, and commissioned by her first owner,...
    12 KB (1,177 words) - 19:30, 29 August 2024
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    Sail plan (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    rigging that supports the rig. By extension, "sail plan" describes the arrangement of sails on a craft. A sailing craft may be waterborne (a ship or boat)...
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    sailing vessel's rig is its arrangement of masts, sails and rigging. Examples include a schooner rig, cutter rig, junk rig, etc. A rig may be broadly categorized...
    34 KB (4,281 words) - 22:04, 1 August 2024
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    triangular lateen sail rig. By the fourteenth century, their size had increased and their use had spread; for instance, there is mention, in 1307, of larger...
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    Drilling rigs can be massive structures housing equipment used to drill water wells, oil wells, or natural gas extraction wells, or they can be small enough...
    17 KB (1,995 words) - 09:40, 29 July 2024
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    Gunter rig is a configuration of sail and spars used in sailing. It is a fore and aft sail set abaft (behind) the mast. The lower half of the luff (front)...
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    Sloop (redirect from Sloop-rigged)
    in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with...
    5 KB (553 words) - 21:20, 2 April 2024
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    Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged ship, said to be "ship-rigged" when there are three or more masts. Others carry only...
    75 KB (7,910 words) - 00:19, 11 July 2024
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    to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and manoeuvrability, intended to be used in scouting, escort and patrol roles...
    75 KB (9,306 words) - 05:57, 7 September 2024
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    later full-rigged ship. The principal warships of the opposing English and Spanish fleets in the 1588 confrontation of the Spanish Armada and in the 1589...
    21 KB (2,514 words) - 20:24, 22 August 2024
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    Barquentine (category Sailing rigs and rigging)
    masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts. While a full-rigged ship is square-rigged on all three masts...
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