Barks, ketches, snows, and brigantines carried fore-and-aft rigs in connection with square sails on either mast, but now for the first time two masts were rigged fore and aft, and the square sails wholly discarded.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Sloops, schooners, brigantines, and scows of 40 or 50 tons burden, carrying crews of nine men including the captain and mates, were the customary craft in the early days of the eighteenth century.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Where the merchants with their wares, And their gallant brigantines Sailing safely into port Chased by corsair Algerines?
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow