Beautiful Sailing Ships
 

The Age of Sail is long over, but sailing ships still remain beautiful in their own way. The way the bow breaks over the waves and the ensign flying at the stern, it makes my heart melt.
Who else thinks that sailing ships are beautiful, even when compared to today's yachts?

I hope your kidding :D

Beautiful Ship .:up:

How to flunk seamanship 101: gravity is not 64 yr old's friend
 

Found somewhere on t' internet...
 

I saw this nice looking sloop (it's a sloop of war I think) while I was in Conway, Wales back a few years ago. I also have a photo of a single decked two masted ship docked next to the HMS Belfast but it photo is quite bad.

http://s6.postimg.org/5eo1hj2ip/Europe_Trip_265.jpg

Beautiful! but as the foremast is shorter (as also on a brig)than the mainmast AND there are two gaff rig masts What ya got there is a magnificent square rigged Schooner. At least two headsails to the bowsprit and possibly three. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ter_Harbor.jpg <Schooner The brig also has the shorter foremast but is not double gaffed(with two booms)>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._full_sail.jpgThe brigantine, also two masted, has a fully rigged foremast, generally of equal height>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...copperEtch.png definitely not a sloop-of-war such as USS Constellation>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...llation_1.jpegIt's all a little confusing and I can't keep track of it (all that different rigging) myself:timeout: No wonder they called it 'learning the ropes':know:

Ah, I guess I got confussed between the differences of sloop and schooner. Really I don't know a lot about ships from the days of sail, speaking of I found this buried deep in my screenshot archives from a campaign I did in NTW.
http://s6.postimg.org/qtxsl0jnl/Stormy_Naval_Battle.jpg

Aye, she's a beautiful ship. Lived 30 minutes away from her once, had a sleep out on the USS Constellation. Was great fun, especially firing the cannon at party boats:D

Actually there is a difference in terminology between the rig and the hull, especially when dealing in naval designations.

A sloop rig has a single mast.

If it has two masts and they're fore-and-aft rigged, then it's a schooner. If both masts are square rigged then it's a brig. If the foremast is square rigged and the after mast is fore-and-aft, then it's a brigantine.

On the other hand a brig hull has the guns along the weather deck but also has raised fore and after castles. A sloop has all the guns on the weather deck and no raised decks. The vessel pictured would be described in an 18th century navy as a brig-rigged sloop. And yes, it's a sloop-of-war.

I've got myself a successful thread here :D
Great photos, guys!

A fighting topsail schooner: HMS Pickle
 

:D YER IN A 'pickle' now SIR!:woot: She's the HMS PICKLE Representation of HMS Pickle (1800), A Baltic Trading Schooner built in Russia as Alevtina Tuy. Used for charters and at the various bicentennial Trafalgar celebrations in the UK. based at Conwy Wales. The original was a 'topsail schooner'. Pickle was at the Battle of Trafalgar, and though she was too small to take part in the fighting, Pickle was the first ship to bring the news of Nelson's victory to Great Britain. She also participated in a notable single-ship action when she captured the French privateer Favorite in 1807. Originally with six guns later with 8 12-pounder carronades; which precludes any brig sloop consideration as those (2) types had far greater firepower.

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of the Cruizer class (18 guns) and the Cherokee class (10 guns). The brig rig was economical of manpower (important given Britain's chronic shortfall in trained seamen relative to the demands of the wartime fleet) and when armed with carronades (32-pounders in the Cruizers, 18-pounders in the Cherokees) they had the highest ratio of firepower to tonnage of any ships in the Royal Navy

Quite a little warrior!!! More of a make-do schooner privateer actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pickle_(1800)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...klereplica.jpg(only two head sails)

Not 'square rigged' schooners