brigantine

Example Sentences

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To this day, what turned that brigantine into a ghost ship remains a maritime mystery.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2014

What prompted him to suppose the ship was a brigantine were its overall dimensions, he said.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2010

His first command was a brigantine, which he sailed to Tahiti.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite sleet and freezing drizzle, some 10,000 spectators watched at Griffin's Wharf while history buffs crept aboard the 97-ft. brigantine Beaver II, a replica of one of the three ships sacked in 1773.

From Time Magazine Archive

On a morning in mid-April, 1687, the brigantine Dolphin left the open sea, sailed briskly across the Sound to the wide mouth of the Connecticut River and into Saybrook harbor.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare