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Constructo - Constructo 1/100 "Union" Brigantine Wood Ship Model Kit #CON80616
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Constructo 1/100 "Union" Brigantine Wood Ship Model Kit
Model: CON80616
Size: 1/100
Age Range: 14-99
Skill Level: 2 (out of 10)
Constructo 1/100 Scale "Union" Brigantine Wood Ship Model Kit.
Entry Level Kit. Actual size 15-3/4"long x 14-1/2" height x 5-1/3" wide. Scale 1/10"=1 ft.
Two mast, square rigged brigantines like Constructo's Union were typical 18th and 19th century ships. They were used as merchant ships, light warships, and for Coast Guard activities. Many were granted privateering commissions by the government, allowing them to take or sink ships belonging to the enemy.
Two mast, square rigged brigantines like Constructo's Union were typical 18th and 19th century ships. They were used as merchant ships, light warships, and for Coast Guard activities. Many were granted privateering commissions by the government, allowing them to take or sink ships belonging to the enemy.
In sailing, a brigantine is a vessel with two masts, at least one of which is square rigged.
In modern parlance, a brigantine is a principally fore-and-aft rig with a square rigged foremast, as opposed to a brig which is square rigged on both masts.
In the late 17th century, the Royal Navy used the term brigantine (often contracted to brig) to refer to small two-mast vessels designed to be rowed as well as to sail, rigged with square sails on both masts.
By the first half of the 18th century the word had evolved to refer not to a ship type name, but rather to a particular type of rigging: square rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzen. Many sloops were “brigantine-rigged”.
The 1780 Universal Dictionary of the Marine by William Falconer defines brig and brigantine as follows: BRIG, or BRIGANTINE, a merchant-ship with two masts. This term is not universally confined to vessels of a particular construction, or which are mast and rigged in a method different from all others. It is variously applied, by the mariners of different European nations, to a peculiar sort of vessel of their own marine.
A brig is now a vessel with two masts square-rigged like a ship's fore- and main-masts, but carrying also on her main-mast a lower fore-and-aft sail with a gaff and boom. A brig differs from a snow in having no try-sail mast, and in lowering her gaff to furl the sail. Merchant snows are often called brigs. This vessel was probably developed from the brigantine by the men-of-war brigs, so as to obtain greater sail-power.
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