Posted by Jock on June 18, 2007 at 18:54:05 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Ships or Boats posted by John Wilson on June 18, 2007 at 14:55:44:
‘ship’ to be technically accurate, means a sea-going vessel with three or more square-rigged masts [my emphasis added]
That's what I always took a ship to be. Thus, returning to my post 28069, Tea Clippers were ships, though for a time the Cutty Sark had her rigging cut down to that of a barquentine, while the much larger Windjammers were ships, barques or even schooners.