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Re: Ships and boats and barks
From: Douglas Denny
Date: 2010 Feb 20, 03:10 -0800
From: Douglas Denny
Date: 2010 Feb 20, 03:10 -0800
And if they were being _really_ pedantic they would be making the distinction between a:-
BARK: three masted vessel with fore-aft rigged mizzen mast, fore and main square-rigged); and a
BARKENTINE (Barquentine) a three masted vessel with the fore-mast square-rigged, and main and mizzen fore and aft rigged.
Douglas Denny.
Chichester. England.
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