Sakoleva

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Sakoleva or Sakoleve , also written Sacoleva in older or foreign publications, ( modern Greek Σακολέβα ) is the name for a type of slim-built sailing ships with different rigging , which was used by southern and eastern Mediterranean countries until the end of the sailing ship era. Common to all forms were raised ship ends and a strikingly large jump in the hull and the long-continued use of pole masts, while composite masts lower mast and attached masts were already common. One-and-a-half and two-masted ships of this type carried sloping, spreader, latin or gaff sails on both masts. In three-masted ships, the mainmast was just in front of the center of the ship and tilted forward, it carried Mars and Bramrah sails. The other two masts at the rear were designed like the two-masted sakolevas.

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