Snow (ship)
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This article is about snow, the merchant vessel. For other meanings of snow, see Snow (disambiguation).
Description
A Snow was a two-masted merchant vessel of the 16th through the 19th centuries, the largest two-masted ship of her period with a tonnage of up to around 1,000 tons, primarily a merchant ship but also used at war. She carried square sails on both masts, but had a small trysail mast (also called a snowmast) stepped immediately abaft the mainmast from which a trysail with a boom was set, with the luff of the trysail hooped to it. At times the trysail mast was replaced by a horse on the mainmast, to which the luff of the trysail was attached by rings.
Other types of sailing vessel
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Bark | Barque | Barquentine | Bilander | Brig | Brig (Hermaphrodite) | Brigantine | Caravel | Carrack | Catamaran | Catboat | Clipper | Clipper (Dutch Clipper) | Cog | Corvette | Cutter | Dhow | Fluyt | Fore & Aft Rig | Frigate | Full Rigged Ship | Gaff rig | Galleon | Gunter rig | Hermaphrodite Brig | Junk | Ketch | Mersey Flat | Multihull | Nao | Norfolk Wherry | Pink |Pocket Cruiser | Pram | Proa | Schooner | Ship of the line | Sloop | Smack | Snow | Square rig | Tall ship | Thames Sailing Barge | Trimaran | Wherry | Windjammer | Xebec | Yacht | Yawl | |
