Brigantine
Sea Terms
In olden times a brigantine was a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the fore, and schooner-rigged on the main, with this addition, that she carried a light square topsail on the mainmast. In these days a brigantine dispenses with the square main topsail so that no difference exists between the rigs of a brigantine and an hermaphrodite brig. (See Hermaphrodite Brig.)
