Five-masted ship

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As a five-masted ships or Fünfmaster large are sailing ships with five masts called, regardless of the type of rigging. A distinction is made among other things

  • the five-masted full ship, it drives square sails on all masts ;
  • the five-masted barque, with sails on the last mast (mizzen mast) and square sails on the other masts;
  • the five-mast schoner, also called five-mast schonerbark, with square sails on the foremast (foremast), gaff sails on all other masts ; in individual cases square sails are used on the two front masts;
  • The five-mast topsail schooner drives a gaff sail on all masts as the main sail and above it a square top sail on the front masts and a gaff top sail on the other masts;
  • the five-mast gaff schooner has gaff sails as main and topsail on all masts

Examples

  • the Bark France I of the shipping company Bordes & fils, Bordeaux, with 6,160 register tons , 115 meters in length, 15 meters in width and 10.7 meters in draft
  • the Bark Maria Rickmers , built of steel in Bremen in 1891 , lost in 1892 on her way to India
  • the Bark RC Rickmers (sister ship of the Maria Rickmers )
  • 1895 at the shipyard of Tecklenborg in Geestemünde from the stack overflowed Bark Potosi the shipping company F. Laeisz in Hamburg, which for shipping of saltpetre was designed from the west coast of South America (3,955 tons, 3,780 tons tonnage, 120 meters in length, 15 meters in width and 9 , 5 meters high, load weight 6,500 tons)
  • the full ship Prussia, also built by Tecklenborg for F. Laeisz, with 8,200 register tons of deadweight; Launched in 1902
  • the topsail schooner Malahat (ship) , in the USA a. a. became famous for their smuggling trips during Prohibition
  • the five topsail schooners of the Vinnen schooner class, built in the 1920s, with square sails on the first and third masts as a special feature
  • the full ship Royal Clipper , built in 1990 based on the model of the Prussians , a four-star cruise ship, rigged as a full ship (4425 GT, 133 meters length, 16.30 meters width, draft 5.6 meters, 227 passengers)
  • the Club Med 2 , a modern Bermuda-rigged motor sailer cruise ship

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Larger ships with six or seven masts were also constructed, such as the gaff schooners Wyoming and Thomas W. Lawson and schooner barges .

See also

literature

  • Tony Gibbons: The World of Ships. Bassermann Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-8094-2186-3 .
  • Hans-Jörg Furrer: The four- and five-masted square sailors in the world. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1984. ISBN 3-7822-0341-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Union Tribute San Diego: Imported illegality poured in from Rum Row during Prohibition