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Also known as schooner barque, barkentine, schooner bark, clipper bark

A barquentine or schooner barque (alternatively "barkentine" or "schooner bark") is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts.

Key facts

Weapon.is_vehicle
yes
Weapon.type
Sailing rig
Weapon.origin
Northwest Europe and America
Weapon.name
Barquentine
Weapon.image
Belgian barquentine Mercator. Trinidad, c. 1960.jpg
Weapon.image_size
200
Weapon.caption
Belgian barquentine Mercator

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Belgian barquentine Mercator. Trinidad, c. 1960.jpg
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Commons category
Barquentines
topic's main category
Category:Barquentines
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Modern barquentine sailing rig
  • Etymology
  • Historic and modern examples
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

A barquentine or schooner barque (alternatively "barkentine" or "schooner bark") is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts.

==Modern barquentine sailing rig== thumb|left|Barquentine sail-plan|sail plan

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “barquentine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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