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Default A Frigate with Scarlet Sails in St Petersburg

Tim W wrote:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...html#ref=nlint

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Don't know quite what makes it a 'Frigate' exactly. I would have called it
a Schooner. Has she got a gun deck?

Tim W



Schooners are not square rigged, with the exception of a fore topsail.

This one is called a brig (by sail plan).
Two masts square rigged on both.


http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/AtoZ/rigs.html

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