A three-masted Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy, ca.

1831 painting of a three-masted Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy, entering a West Indies port.

1831 painting of a three-masted Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy, entering a West Indies port.

In its purest form, it is single-masted, although Bermuda sloops can have up to three masts, three-masted ships being referred referred to as schooners.

This fact was the reason the Bermuda Sloop Foundation chose a three-masted, rather than a single-masted, design for its newly-built Spirit of Bermuda, which is intended as a training ship for inexperienced youths ).

On a three-masted vessel the masts are, from bow to stern, Fore, Main and Mizzen ; the " plain " square sails are, bottom to top, Course, Topsail, Topgallant, Royal and Sky.

Otherwise all ships in the Royal Navy are known as HM Ships, though formerly when a distinction was made between three-masted ship-rigged ships and smaller vessels they would be called HM Frigate X, or HM Sloop Y.

Hoping to revive commerce raiding, the Imperial Navy equipped the impounded three-masted sailing ship Pass of Balmaha ( 1571 tons ) with two 105 mm guns hidden behind hinged gunwales, several machine guns, and two carefully hidden 500 HP auxiliary engines.

The U. S. Navy sailed the historic wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate USS Constitution to Alexandria for the dedication.

* HMS Beagle, a Cherokee-class brig-sloop re-rigged as a three-masted barque, is famous as the ship Charles Darwin sailed around the world in between 1831 and 1836.

A typical three-masted carrack such as the São Gabriel had six sails: bowsprit, foresail, mizzen, spritsail, and two topsails.

Thayer is typical of the sort of three-masted schooners often used in the west coast lumber trade.

With the three-masted ship established, propelled by square rig and lateen, and guided by the pintle-and-gudgeon rudder, all advanced ship design technology necessary for the great transoceanic voyages was in place by the beginning of the 15th century.

With the three-masted ship established, propelled by square rig and lateen, and guided by the pintle-and-gudgeon rudder, all advanced ship design technology necessary for the great transoceanic voyages was in place by the onset of the 15th century.

The results were immediate and, by 1848, three wooden sailing vessels called " barks " or " barque " ( small three-masted sailing ships ), the Libra, the Maria Magdalena and the America, had been booked for passage to the east coast of the United States.

Also during that period, the bakufu commissioned around 720 Red Seal Ships, three-masted and armed trade ships, for intra-Asian commerce.

On January 5, 1841, a British Admiralty team in the Erebus and the Terror, three-masted ships with specially strengthened wooden hulls, was going through the pack ice of the Pacific near Antarctica in an attempt to determine the position of the South Magnetic Pole.

Also during that period, the bakufu commissioned around 350 Red Seal Ships, three-masted and armed trade ships, for intra-Asian commerce.

In the late 19th Century the Basin's shipyards produced some of the highest numbers of wooden ships in Canadian history and some of the largest, including the ship William D. Lawrence, the largest wooden ship built in Canada along with the giant barques Kings County, Canada's largest four masted-barque and Hamburg, Canada's largest three-masted barque.

Saint-Tropez ’ s shipyards built tartanes and three-masted ships that carried 1000 to 12200 barrels.

First practiced by three-masted sailing ships, Atlantic fishing trips could last more than six months, the time taken to fill the hold with cod, which were salted to preserve them.

On 30 April 1917 about 180 miles south of Ireland, in the Atlantic, Lieutenant Sanders was in command of HMS Prize, a three-masted topsail schooner ( one of the Q ships ) when she was attacked by German U-boat and badly damaged by shellfire.

* Rappahannock, a huge three-masted wooden down easter ( wooden tall ships of Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, at sea from 1869 to 1929 ) of 3, 054 tons, built and owned by Arthur Sewall & Co., in service from 1889-1891

In the narrow technical field of sailing rigs, a brig is distinct from a three-masted ship by virtue of only having two masts.

* a three-masted barque ( 1901-1917 ) sunk by the German commerce raider Seeadler on 5 March 1917

The Green Island Light was kept lit by day due to the obscuring smoke, but the three-masted schooner George L. Newman was wrecked offshore ; the crew was fortunately rescued without loss.

SMS Seeadler, the three-masted windjammer that raided the Atlantic and Pacific in an age of dreadnoughts ( painting by Christopher Rave

Luckner continued his voyage southwards, and by 21 January, he was in mid-Atlantic between Brazil and West Africa when he found the 2, 199 ton French three-masted barque Charles Gounod, loaded with corn.

There are seals of Saltash: A three-masted ship with sails furled at anchor ; and An escutcheon charges with a lion rampant within a bordure bezantee resting upon water surmounted by a coronet composed on crosses patee and fleurs-de-lis and either side an ostrich feather ; with the legends " Sigillum aquate Saltash " and " Sigillum Saltashe " respectively.

The reverse of the original Arctic Medal showed a three-masted ship surrounded by ice floes.

* A three-masted barque ( 1901 – 1917 ) sunk by the German commerce raider Seeadler on the 5 March 1917

On April 17, 1610, the sturdy little three-masted bark, Discovery, weighed anchor in St. Katherine's Pool, London, and floated down the Thames toward the sea.

The more precise meaning " three-masted ship " arose in the 17th century, and often takes the French spelling for disambiguation.

Alexandra was a three-masted sailing ship with auxiliary steam power, and despite remaining flagship was already outdated in a navy which was steadily transitioning from sail to steam.

** The Low Lantern: A three-masted ship moored on the northeast side of the harbor along Stormshore Street.

It was a three-masted schooner of 220 tons, 38. 34 m long, with a 100 hp ( 75 kW ) steam engine.

* Athena, 90m classic three-masted gaff aluminum schooner.

The earliest recorded European contact occurred in 1696 when a British ship, the barkentine ( three-masted ship ) Reformation, sailing from Jamaica to Philadelphia sank close to the shore north of Jupiter Inlet, carrying 25 passengers and crew and a cargo of sugar, rum, beef, molasses, and Spanish currency.

When they came to the area, great three-masted schooners could sail all the way up Back River to the heading.

A brig is “ generally built on a larger scale than the schooner, and often approaches in magnitude to the full-sized, three-masted ship .” Brigs vary in length between 75 and 165 ft ( 23 – 50 m ) with tonnages up to 480.

The Sydney Heritage Fleet restored an iron-hulled three-masted barque, the James Craig, originally constructed as " Clan Macleod " in 1874 and sailing at sea fortnightly.

He joined the merchant marine of Norway and Sweden when he was 15, first on a Norwegian three-masted schooner, and later on Swedish and German vessels.

The Zephyr was a three-masted barque that was built in Medford, Massachusetts in 1855.