brigantine

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Recent Examples of brigantine On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024 Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel. Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brigantine
Noun
  • Help hoist the sails of the Schooner Freedom, a massive topsail schooner captained by John and Sarah Zaruba.
    Kara Franker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Renamed Magic Circle, Guthrie’s schooner became a lowly minesweeper along the Scottish coast.
    Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the Caribbean, wandering yachtsmen on sloops and catamarans know these masts well.
    Joe Sills, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • To ensure Blackbeard was neutralized, Spotswood gave Robert Maynard, an officer in the Royal Navy, control of 60 men and two sloops—small sailboats that lacked cannons but could pursue Blackbeard in the narrow inlets and shallows of the coast.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The British Royal Navy's frigate also launched a Merlin helicopter from 814 Naval Air Squadron to ascertain valuable information aerially.
    Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Taiwan's Pan Chao frigate (PFG2-1108) monitors PLAN Siming Shan Type 071 LPD (986) and Qiandaohu Type 903 replenishment ship (886).
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The seven-foot canvas features only two figures, who stand in a green shallop like Adam and Eve.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 4 May 2022
  • And so had the shallop, built in Massachusetts in 1957 at the Plymouth Marine Railway.
    Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
Noun
  • The wintry Atlantic roiling, frothing, glittering like a gigantic skin shaking itself, great galleon-clouds passing overhead, torn and tattered by the wind.
    Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • In my first go, my ancient Romans became the Spanish, who sent galleons to distant lands.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • One 203-feet sailing ketch called Simena which will have an on-deck Jacuzzi, six guest cabins and ample exterior deck spaces.
    Katia Damborsky, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Photo : Perini Navi ‘Badis,’ 230 Feet, 2016 Perini Navi Originally launched as Sybaris in 2016 for experienced yachtsman Bill Duker, Badis is an all-aluminum ketch built by Italian shipyard Perini Navi.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The move makes the yacht’s interior volume, already considerable at 500 gross tons, feel significantly larger.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2025
  • When Tanya began shooting up the yacht and then fell to her death from it, that was all played for laughs, after all.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.
    Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
    Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017

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“Brigantine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brigantine. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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