Posted by Jock on July 02, 2007 at 17:02:52 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Ship posted by Jim Hadfield on July 02, 2007 at 16:34:25:
Your "Pocket Oxford Guide to Sailing Terms" definition is too restrictive. A vessel with a bowsprit and three masts, each with topmast and topgallant masts, and square rigged on all three is certainly a fully rigged ship. but a steel masted vessel without separate topmasts and topgallant masts could also carry a ship rig as also could four or even five masted vessels. I think that the Wikipedia entry is much more comprehensive: A full rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with three or more masts, all of them square rigged... a vessel will... be called a ship, particularly in 18th to early 19th century and earlier usage, to distinguish it from other vessels such as schooners, barques, barquentines, brigs... .