Barquentine

Barquentine

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A barquentine (also spelled barkentine) is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts. See also sail-plan. An example of a barquentine is the Gazela Primeiro, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Related rigs are brigantine (2 masts), barque (square-rigged on all but the mizzen mast), and the "Olympia". The Olympia is the sole instance of a vessel with 2 fore-and-aft rigged masts and 2 square-rigged masts. Earlier and very controversial examples of this class of vessel were the "Transits" of 1800 and her successors. Their inventor, Richard Hall Gower, claimed that they could be worked entirely from the deck.


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  • barquentine — Barkentine Bark en*tine, n. [See {Bark}, n., a vessel.] (Naut.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square rigged, and the others schooner rigged. [Spelled also {barquentine}, {barkantine}, etc.] See Illust. in Append. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • Barquentine California — The Barquentine California was a barquentine ship measuring 83 feet. It was designed by Al Mason in 1927 while he was still in high school.During World War II, it was a Navy vessel in the South Pacific. After sailing around the world in the late… …   Wikipedia

  • barquentine — variant of barkentine …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • barquentine — /bahr keuhn teen /, n. barkentine. Also, barquantine. * * * …   Universalium

  • barquentine — noun A sailing vessel similar to a barque, but fore and aft (schooner) rigged on the mainmast …   Wiktionary

  • barquentine — n. barkentine, type of sailing ship …   English contemporary dictionary

  • barquentine — [ bα:k(ə)nti:n] (US barkentine) noun a sailing ship similar to a barque but with only the foremast square rigged and the remaining masts rigged fore and aft. Origin C17: from barque, on the pattern of brigantine …   English new terms dictionary

  • barquentine — bar·quen·tine …   English syllables

  • barquentine — /ˈbakəntin/ (say bahkuhnteen) noun Nautical a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square rigged on the foremast and fore and aft rigged on the other masts. Also, barquantine, barkentine. {barque + (briga)ntine} …  

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