brig
A two-masted square rigged vessel. On the aft mast, there is also a gaff sail.
brigands ...
Brig: two masts, both square-rigged with a spanker on the mainmast.
Brigantine: two masts, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast.
brig - A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both masts; the "jail" on a marine vessel.
Brigantine - a two masted vessel square rigged on the foremast, with fore-and-aft sails on the mainmast ...
Brig:
A two:masted vessel with both masts square rigged. On the sternmost mast, the main mast, there is also a gaff sail ...
Brig: 1. A two masted vessel square rigged on both masts.Generally in the 150 - 200 ton range. 2. A sailing vessel's jail.
A BRIG is a vessel with two square-rigged masts. On the aft mast there is also a gaff sail often called the spanker.
A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had multiple masts and a square rig.
Snow: "A Brig bends her boom-sail (or trysail) to the mainmast, while a Snow bends it to a trysail mast: in other respects these two vessels are alike." (Young's Nautical Dictionary 1846.) ...
The collier brig Brotherly Love, of South Shields, was over one hundred years old when she was broken up; and the schooner Polly built in 1805, was still sailing in 1902; as also was the brig Hvalfisken, built at Calmar in Sweden in 1801.
Sailing Ships
~ Confused about the difference between a brig and a bark? Here are common sailing vessels of the 1700's.
The Points of the Compass
~ The Thirty-Two Points of the Compass, illustrated.
Square-Rigged - Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels. Rigged with square sails as the principal ones.
 See also: Sailing, Boom, Rigging, Sail, Light
  
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