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Re: Uncertain Definition of a Ship Type...?
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Tue, 9 May 2000 01:04:57 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> >
> > Okay...now what do you call the "bonus mast" on a schooner with *four*
> masts...?
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> Foremast, foreward mainmast, mainmast, and mizzen. And I have no doubt that
> there are exceptions to the rule. When a mizzen becomes a jigger, I don't
> know.
Why, when it dances! (rim shot)
> > Or do the rules go out the window when money flies innuendo...no, wait, wrong
> > ending. I mean, do rules go out the window when you no longer have "true"
> > ship-rigs? What on Earth do you call the four bonus masts on the _Thomas W.
> > Lawson_?
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> Dunno what the Thomas W. Lawson is.
The _Thomas W. Lawson_ holds the world's record for most masts on a sailing ship.
T'was a 1910s schooner, IIRC, and it had *seven* masts.
I have no idea what you'd call the four extras. Interesting page, though, is at
the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (Canadian, natch'ly).
http://www.ednet.ns.ca/educ/museum/mma/rigs.html
It identifies the Lawson as a seven-mast steel schooner on the standard
"four-masted schooner" pattern.
From a ship modelling site at
http://www.bateaux-leclerc.qc.ca/anglais/galerie4.htm:
This was the only seven-mast schooner
ever built, and was designed for the
coasting trade of North America. She
was built in 1902 by the Fore River
Shipbuilding Company, at Quincy, Mass.
Its dimensions were : Length : 385
feet, Breadth : 50 feet. Tonnage :
5218 tons. This huge schooner was
handled by sixteen men. She made many
coastal trips between Texas and
Philadelphia, but was lost in 1907
when making a passage across the
Atlantic. On December 13 she anchored
off the Scilly Islands with the
intention of riding out a gale, but
during the night she capsized and
except for one survivor all hands were
lost.
It includes a little picture of a model of this strange beast.
best
Lindsay
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| (...) masts...? Foremast, foreward mainmast, mainmast, and mizzen. And I have no doubt that there are exceptions to the rule. When a mizzen becomes a jigger, I don't know. (...) Dunno what the Thomas W. Lawson is. Bruce (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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