How To Use Square-rigger In A Sentence
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For square-riggers, the island had a perfect strategic location for control of the island chain to the south, and it had, in English Harbour, one of the world's most protected anchorages.
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A ship in ballast has high sides, presenting more surface to the tearing wind than the biggest square-rigger.
Times, Sunday Times
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We'd boarded the five-masted square-rigger Royal Clipper about 12 hours earlier, but my first evening afloat was shrouded in a somewhat hazy glow.
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But the men who rounded the Horn in the old square-riggers were really tough guys and the Association of Cape Horners adopted the albatross as its symbol.
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In 2001, an exact replica of Capt. James Cook's famous square-rigger was launched with a modern crew to retrace the most perilous leg of his historic voyage of discovery from Australia to Indonesia.
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Fanshawe counted ninety-six craft, stretched from shore to shore: square-riggers, lateen-rigged gunboats, fast galleys.
John Paul Jones
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‘People love ‘tall ships’ of course,’ Cullivan says pointing to a 300-foot square-rigger of 1886 moored at the pier.