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Types of Sailing Ships

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There are many types of sailing ships, mostly distinguished by their rigging, hull, keel, or number and configuration of masts. There are also many types of smaller sailboats not listed here. The following is a list of vessel types, many of which have changed in meaning over time:

  • barque, or bark: at least three masts, fore-and-aft rigged mizzen mast
  • barquentine: at least three masts with all but the foremost fore-and-aft rigged
  • bilander: a ship or brig with a lug-rigged mizzen sail
  • brig: two masts square rigged (may have a spanker on the aftermost)
  • brigantine: two masts, with the foremast square-rigged
  • caravel
  • carrack
  • catamaran: vessel with two parallel hulls, usually identical or mirror images, linked by beams and deck or "trampoline", with a central mast or hull mounted in rarer circumstances e.g. Team Philips.
  • clipper: a square-rigged merchant ship of the 1840–50s designed for speedy passages
  • cog: plank built, one mast, square rigged
  • corvette: an imprecise term for a small, often ship-rigged vessel
  • cutter: Fore-and-aft rigged, single mast with two headsails
  • dhow: a lateen-rigged merchant or fishing vessel
  • dinghy: a small open boat, usually one mast
  • wangga ndrua or drua, a sacred double hull canoe of Fiji, last made in the 1880s.
  • frigate: a ship-rigged European warship with a single gundeck, designed for commerce-raiding and reconnaissance
  • fishing smack
  • fluyt: a Dutch oceangoing merchant vessel, rigged similarly to a galleon
  • full-rigged ship: three or more masts, all of them square rigged
  • galleon: a large, primarily square-rigged vessel of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • hermaphrodite brig: similar to a brigantine
  • junk: a lug-rigged Chinese tradeship
  • ketch: two masts fore-and-aft rigged, the mizzen mast forward of the rudder post
  • Koch (boat)
  • longship: vessels used by the Vikings, with a single mast and square sail, also propelled by oars.
  • lugger: vessel with at least two masts, carrying lugsails
  • luzzu
  • pink: in the Atlantic, a small oceangoing ship with a narrow stern.
  • pram
  • schooner: fore-and-aft rigged sails, with two or more masts, the aftermost mast taller or equal to the height of the forward mast(s)
  • ship of the line: the largest warship in European navies, ship-rigged
  • sloop: a single fore-and-aft rigged mast and bowsprit
  • snow: a brig carrying a square mainsail and often a spanker on a trysail mast
  • tjotter
  • trimaran: vessel with three hulls, the central usually larger, linked by beams and deck.
  • waʻa kaulua
  • windjammer: large sailing ship with an iron or for the most part steel hull, built to carry cargo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
  • xebec: a Mediterranean warship adapted from a galley, with three lateen-rigged masts
  • yawl: two masts, fore-and-aft rigged, the mizzen mast aft of the rudder post

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