How To Use Brigantine In A Sentence
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The brightly painted Karien brigantine was tied up at the end of the wharf, awaiting her prince.
TREASON KEEP
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The brigantine was a relic of an ancient period of shipbuilding, and her main cabin fitted her excellently.
Gold Out of Celebes
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But I found out that the vessel was not exactly a ship after all, but a sort of half schooner, half brig, -- what they call a brigantine, having two masts, a mainmast and a foremast.
Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner
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This peculiar form, and the symmetrical arrangement of a few cones which surround the Brigantine, made me at first think that this group, which is wholly calcareous, contained rocks of basaltic or trappean formation.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Some types such as barkentines and brigantines were introduced in the early 1800s, but were replaced by schooners, which could sail across the wind.
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Yet I had heard of vessels thus modelled for the sake of securing speed, and fitted with a very deep keel to ensure weatherliness, where light draught of water was not a consideration; and it remained to be seen whether the brigantine was a craft of this class.
A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
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The chart holds the key to the location of the wreck of an eighteenth-century brigantine.
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In the making of the sloops, brigantines, barks, and other vessels that were the stock-in-trade of Kingston's shipbuilders, hundreds of deep holes needed to be bored through heavy, oak timbers.
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I recall a brigantine coming into Leith when I was a child and there can't have been more than three men alive on her, and they were near death's door.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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She was some miles inshore of us, and as the day brightened we made her out to be a brigantine (an uncommon rig in those days), standing across our bows, with all studding sails set on the starboard side, indeed everything that could pull, including water sails and save-all.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
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Some types such as barkentines and brigantines were introduced in the early 1800s, but were replaced by schooners, which could sail across the wind.
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In a later chapter an attempt has been made to place before the reader pictures of the galley, the galeasse, and the nef, which were the names attached to the ships then in use; the name brigantine, far from having the significance attached to it by the sailor of the present day, seems to have been a generic term to denote any craft not included in the names already given.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
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Boats of all types, from fishing boats to a huge black brigantine with deep blue sails, were docked.
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Still in chase of the brigantine, which is making for the land.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
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But my joy on reaching the east coast was sadly imbittered by the news that Commander MacLune, of H.M. brigantine
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Not a few of the great ones of our own day commenced their career behind the apple-shaped bows of a Saltcoats coaler, whether it was a handy brigantine or a trig schooner is no matter.
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The brigantine was the _Maori Maid_ of Auckland, Captain Heselton, and the supercargo was young Robert Flemming.
The Flemmings And "Flash Harry" Of Savait From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
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Events such as Monday's parade of sail, where square-rigged barquentines and brigantines raise their sails and tour the harbour, evoke images of a time before steamships and attract thousands of binocular-toting sailing fans.
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With Capt. Bill Pinkney at the helm, Amistad held a place of honor, third in line behind the U.S. Coast Guard barque Eagle and a replica of the War of 1812 brigantine Niagara.
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From here Nelson would have seen a great variety of coasting vessels - galliots, busses, hoys, brigantines, sloops, wherries, bilanders, luggers, cutters, snows - carrying a flow of goods.
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Feloniously and Pyratically surprise, seise and take a Brigantine named ----, [11] One Moor Master, and belonging to His said Majesties good subjects, and out of Her then and there in manner as aforesd. did take and Carry away Cloths and Provisions of the Value of Two Hundred pounds.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
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In short, a brigantine is a mixed vessel, being a brig forward and a sloop aft.
Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
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When the crossjack was replaced by a gaff, the larger vessels started the square mainsail, and became "brigs," while the smaller kept the spanker as their mainsail, and became "brigantines," so that a genuine old brigantine is a brig without a square mainsail.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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Its prettiness helps explain its survival in boxes and cupboards for more than half a century, its original tuition (example: how to tell a barque from a brigantine) long forgotten.
A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
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Wreck exposed by Cyclone Yasi identified A SHIPWRECK exposed when Cyclone Yasi hit north Queensland has been identified as the brigantine Belle, lost in 1880.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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The visit of the barques, brigantines and schooners also seemed to drive off some of the tourism malaise created by a July shrouded in fog, damp and rain.
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91 The light brigantines of the Greeks were scattered in ignominious flight: the nine castles of the Venetians maintained a more obstinate conflict; seven were sunk, two were taken; two thousand five hundred captives implored in vain the mercy of the victor; and the daughter of Alexius deplores the loss of thirteen thousand of his subjects or allies.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The visit of the barques, brigantines and schooners also seemed to drive off some of the tourism malaise created by a July shrouded in fog, damp and rain.
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Few, if any, of the divers aboard the JdL for our late-summer dive cruise had prior sailing experience, particularly on a square-rigged sailing ship like this brigantine.
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He pointed toward a sleek two-masted brigantine anchored at the end of the long sloping street.
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By sundown the brigantine was hull down ahead of us, though the barque was a very smart vessel, and we were then making eleven knots.
"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
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Events such as Monday's parade of sail, where square-rigged barquentines and brigantines raise their sails and tour the harbour, evoke images of a time before steamships and attract thousands of binocular-toting sailing fans.
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The brigantine Young Endeavour, a bicentennial gift from the United Kingdom to Australia, is a unique ship.
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It is true the brigantine was a very beautiful, as well as an exceedingly swift vessel; but all this was lost on Rose, who would have admired a horse-jockey bound to the West Indies, in this the incipient state of her nautical knowledge.
Jack Tier; Or, the Florida Reef
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“As a family we watched the fireworks from the yacht club dock in the 50s [today the T-dock in front of the Community Center, which is the former site of the earlier yacht club building], as it was at the foot of our street, Brigantine,” he said.
Borough Fireworks a Decades-Long Tradition « Beachwood Historical Alliance
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The brigantine was called the Sarah, commanded by Tho's Smith, & had on board 11 hhd of rum, 23 hhd of sugar,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
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A tall and handsome man stood strong against the blowing wind, gazing out from the bow of a large brigantine ship.
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Just ahead of the barque was a very handsome brigantine, also bound for the Friendly Islands.
"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
