Or be 2 people on a brigantine if you are only 2 people. A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail behind the mast.
Modern American definitions include vessels without the square sails on the main mast. He also bought an entire cart worth of treats during his first trip on the Hogwarts Express. How many people does it take to man a brigantine? In comparison the brig is made from three parts and is more equal to a full rigged ship which has a mast, a topmast and a topgallant mast.
Since the invention of metal masts the distinction between these two ships no longer exists in the modern era. Privacy Policy. Naval Combat. Boarding a Ship. Golden Hind. The brigantine was swifter and easier to maneuver than a sloop or schooner, and thus was used for piracy, espionage and reconnoitering. Brigantines could also be used as an outlying attendant for large ships, or for supply or landing purposes in a fleet. Brigantines could be various sizes, weighing between 50 and tons.
They were generally larger than sloops or schooners, but smaller than brigs. Woodes Rogers captained the Lion, a brigantine in his second fleet. She was commissioned by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in , and remains the only Canadian ship to be commissioned by a reigning monarch.
A brigantine is a two-masted square-rigged sailing vessel with fore-and-aft rigged sails on the mainmast. This is distinct from a brig that has square sails on both masts.
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