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Re: Uncertain Definition of a Ship Type...?
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lugnet.pirates
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Fri, 12 May 2000 16:08:46 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Mr L F Braun wrote:
> 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.
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> I have no idea what you'd call the four extras.
Check at <http://www.infa.abo.fi/~fredrik/sships/tw_lawson.html>. Quoting
from that page:
> According to a letter from her first master Captain Crowley the masts were
> called fore mast, main mast, mizzen mast, number 4, number 5, number 6, and
> spanker mast, although number 4,5,6 might also have been called jigger
> mast, driver mast and pusher mast.
Steve
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| (...) Why, when it dances! (rim shot) (...) 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, (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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