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This is also an alternate spelling of Brigandine , a type of Medieval armor. ]] In Sailing , a brigantine is a vessel with two masts, at least one of which is Square Rig ged. In modern parlance, a brigantine is a principally fore-and-aft rig with a square rigged foremast, as opposed to a Brig which is square rigged on both masts. In the late 17th Century , the Royal Navy used the term brigantine (often contracted to ''brig'') to refer to small two-masted vessels designed to be rowed as well as to sail, rigged with square sails on both masts. By the first half of the ged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzen. Many Sloop s were "brigantine-rigged". The 1780 ''Universal Dictionary of the Marine'' by William Falconer defines ''brig'' and ''brigantine'' as follows: :BRIG, or BRIGANTINE, a merchant-ship with two masts. This term is not universally confined to vessels of a particular construction, or which are masted and rigged in a method different from all others. It is variously applied, by the mariners of different European nations, to a peculiar sort of vessel of their own marine. :... :Among English seamen, this vessel is distinguished by having her main-sail set nearly in the plane of her keel; whereas the main-sails of larger ships are hung athwart, or at right angles with the ship’s length, and fastened to a yard which hangs parallel to the deck: but in a brig, the foremost edge of the main-sail is fastened in different places to hoops which encircle the main-mast, and slide up and down it as the sail is hoisted or lowered: it is extended by a gaff above, and by a boom below. Later, ''brig'' and ''brigantine'' developed distinct meanings. The '' Oxford English Dictionary '' (with citations from 1720 to 1854) defines ''brig'' as: :1. a. A vessel :(a) originally identical with the brigantine (of which word brig was a colloquial abbreviation); but, while the full name has remained with the unchanged brigantine, the shortened name has accompanied the modifications which have subsequently been made in rig, so that a brig is now :(b) A vessel with two masts square-rigged like a ship's fore- and main-masts, but carrying also on her main-mast a lower fore-and-aft sail with a gaff and boom. :A brig differs from a snow in having no try-sail mast, and in lowering her gaff to furl the sail. Merchant snows are often called brigs. This vessel was probably developed from the brigantine by the men-of-war brigs, so as to obtain greater sail-power. American usage was to refer to a brigantine as a '' Hermaphrodite Brig ''. OTHER TYPES OF SAILING VESSEL |