Brig, Brigantine.

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 452

Brig, Brigantine. A brig is a square-rigged vessel with two masts. A brigantine, or herma-phrodite brig, is a two-masted vessel, with the mainmast of a schooner and the foremast of a brig.

A detailed black and white illustration of a three-masted sailing vessel, likely a brig or brigantine, on the water. The ship has multiple sails on each mast, with the mainmast being the tallest and the foremast being the shortest. The vessel is shown from a side-on perspective, sailing towards the left. The water is depicted with simple lines representing waves. — Brig.

A brig's mainsail is the lowest square-sail on the mainmast, whereas the mainsail of a brigantine is a fore-and-aft sail like that of a schooner.

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