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The ship was fitted with afore-and-aftrigon her two masts, which had been designed to allow progress in the event of engine failure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some had a single mast, with afore-and-aftrig, while some had an additional mizzen mast.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Traditional fore-and-aft rigs used a four-sided gaff rigged mainsail, sometimes setting a gaff topsail above it.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In that time she was re-rigged as a four-masted barquentine with a square-rigged foremast and three fore-and-aft rigged other masts.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The foremast was square rigged while the other three or four masts were fore-and-aft rigged, barquentine fashion but carrying very simplified standing and running rigging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For example, in the 17th century, brigantine referred to a two-masted sailing ship that was square-rigged on the foremast, and fore-and-aft rigged on the main mast.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Such sails are described as fore-and-aft rigged.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mizzen mast is fore-and-aft rigged.
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