Citations:masted

- 1973, William A. Baker, A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region, page 798:
  Theodore Lucas, writing on large schooners in the December 1900 issue of the Nautical Gazette, gave a proposal for a steel eight-masted schooner.
- 1993 March 1, Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb, Thomas A. Underwood, Randall Kennedy, Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 286:
  The guitar was purchased in New York, after days of searching. It is not a common instrument.
  "Twelve strings–It sounds like an eight-masted schooner," Prof. Robert Hillyer, one of the sponsors of his Harvard visit, remarked yesterday.
- 2018 September 24, Jürgen Sorgenfrei, Port Business: Second Edition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 19:
  Equine ships, carrying horses and tribute goods and repair material for the fleet: eight-masted, about 103 m (339 ft) long and 42 m (138 ft) wide.
- 2021 November 23, Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts, AK Press, →ISBN:
  I can't describe what it was like to pull into King's Station (née Pior Station) and see the iron palisades, to walk out onto King's Square (née Vorros Square) and look out on the steel-clad, eight-masted palace ship, moored in the bay, stationary now for 450 years, attached to the shore as much by polished barnacle as by chain and rope.
- 1909, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the United States. Part I: General conditions of transportation by water., page 143:
  The first five-masted seagoing schooner was built in 1888, the Governor Ames, of 1,778 tons, designed for the trade between the southern coal ports and New England. Five-masted schooners had, however, been used on the Great Lakes before that date.
- 2012 June 11, Romola Anderson, R. C. Anderson, A Short History of the Sailing Ship, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 124:
  The biggest of all was the French five-masted barque France, built in 1913 and wrecked in 1923. She was 430 feet long and 55¾ feet wide.
- 2015, Matthew Lawrence, Deborah Marx, John Galluzzo, Shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank:: Disaster in New England's National Marine Sanctuary, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 52:
  The transition from four-masted to five-masted schooners was not a fluid development. In 1888, the Leverett Storer shipyard in Waldoboro, Maine, built the first five-master on the East Coast: the Governor Ames.
- 2021 May 27, Kent Augustson, The Twenty-five Years that Changed the World: Our Place in Time Volume II, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 11:
  Warships (five-masted, 165 ft. long); each one a mighty ship unsurpassed in their day.
- 1968, All Hands, November 1968, page 33:
  You refer, of course, to the yacht owned by the late Joseph E. Davies, which the Navy chartered and commissioned as USS Sea Cloud for service during World War II. We referred to her as a four-masted brigantine clipper (All Hands, June 1968). You are right; our account was wrong. Read on.–Ed.
- 1973, William A. Baker, A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region, page 797:
  The first four-masted schooner built as such and the first of the type launched at Bath, the William L. White of 1880, was a centerboarder.
- 2014 January 21, Nick Robins, Scotland and the Sea: The Scottish Dimension in Maritime History, Pen and Sword, →ISBN:
  The logical first move was to produce a four-masted ship, and the first of these, the County of Peebles, came down one of Barclay Curle's Upper Clyde slipways in 1875.
- 2003 September 18, Rick Bass, The Hermit's Story: Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
  Huge dragon-headed clouds tower in an azure sky, and nine-masted schooners plow in all directions the eternal blue, trailing in their wake schools of leaping porpoises.
- 2011 July 1, Shih-shan Henry Tsai, Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 207:
  However, the fact thatthe total number of ships involved in different expeditions varied from 48 to 249, whereas the number of personnel remained about twenty-seven thousand led Paul Pelliot to conclude that Zheng He's fleet consisted of smaller numbers of nine-masted ships and larger numbers of middle-sized and small-sized vessels, numbering between one hundred and five hundred.
- 2017, Long Tang, The Book of War: From Chinese History, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 136:
  The fleet consisted of seven types of ships: Treasure ships (宝船, Bǎo Chuán) — They were four-tiered, nine-masted fleet carriers of the time, about 416 feet long and 170 feet wide, used by Zheng He and his deputies as command vessels and for storage of collected valuables. Each ship had the capacity to carry 800 men.
- 1972 11, “MotorBoating”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 48:
  For practical purposes, 90% of today's cruising sailors can limit their study of rigs to just two—the one-masted rig (sloop, cutter) and the two-masted rig (yawl, ketch).
- 2015 March 8, Christian J. Koot, Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 207:
  He consigned shipments on twenty vessels—usually smaller (one-masted) sloops but also some (two-masted) brigantines—from New York to Curaçao between August 12, 1699, and June 20, 1702, a route that accounted for almost one-quarter of
- 2021, Ana Crespo Solana, Heritage and the Sea: Volume 1: Maritime History and Archaeology of the Global Iberian World (15th-18th Centuries)., Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 81:
  Sergio Bellabarba called this rigging arrangement quadra-latina and proposed two possible roots for the development of three-masted, ship-rigged vessels, one from the two-masted lateeners and one from the one-masted square-rigged cogs,
- 1909, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the United States. Part I: General conditions of transportation by water., page 143:
  This vessel was a seven-masted, double-bottom, steel schooner of 5,218 tons gross and 4,914 tons net register; carrying capacity about 8,000 tons of coal, draft of 26 feet, fully laden; manned by a crew of 18,
- 2006 December 4, Rowena Cory Daniells, Exile, Solaris, →ISBN:
  Between the supplies on his left he saw a seven-masted ship being loaded by lantern light. Everywhere he looked, people moved with purpose. 'What do we have here?' Tobazim asked as he jumped down from the platform by the barricade gate.
- 2009, Frederic E. Wakeman, Telling Chinese History: A Selection of Essays, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 10:
  The rest of the fleet of several hundred ships consisted of eight-masted “gallopers” (machuan), seven-masted grain junks (liangchuan), six-masted transports (huochuan), and five-masted combat vessels (zhanchun).
- 1851, Johann Georg Heck, Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, page 734:
  Galliots are two-masted. They carry masts and sails like brigs, only the fore-mast is the highest.
- 1901, United States. Life-Saving Service, Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service, page 196:
  A two-masted schooner was warned away from the shore during the first watch by the Coston light of the station patrol.
- 1989, C. Patrick Labadie, Submerged Cultural Resources Study: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, page 162:
  The two-masted schooner ORIOLE (1857) was sunk in a collision with a sidewheeler ILLINOIS about 8 miles north of the Pictured Rocks, carrying iron ore. Twelve crewmen were lost, one survived.
- 2011 March 30, Kaushik Roy, War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 17:
  The two-masted galivat, by comparison, was about 70 tons. Kanhoji also possessed ghurabs (or grabs) which were equivalent to frigates.
- 1904, Hearings before The Merchant Marine Commission, page 507:
  Senator Mallory. Take a five-masted schooner of 2,000 tons, or a six-masted schooner. Was not that a six-masted schooner we saw at Philadelphia? Take a six-masted schooner of 2,000 tons.
  Mr. Foley. I do not think there is any schooner of that size now.
  Senator Mallory. Yes: she is 2,400 tons net.
  Mr. Foley. Six masted?
  Senator Mallory. Yes; we saw her in Philadelphia yesterday.
- 1912, Emory Richard Johnson, Panama Canal Traffic and Tolls, page 271:
  One of the two six-masted schooners is 302 feet 11 inches long on the keel and 345 feet long on deck. She has 48 feet 3 inches beam and is 22 feet 6 inches deep; her gross tonnage is 2,974, the net tonnage 2,743, and she will carry a little over 5,000 tons of coal.
- 2009 January 1, Dan Michael Worrall, The Anglo-German Concertina: A Social History, Dan Michael Worrall, →ISBN, page 275:
  Originally built as a six-masted, screw-propelled steamer in 1843, it was later converted to a three-masted, square-rigged steamer for the England-to-Australia run in the 1860s and 1870s.
- 1973, ABM, volume 2, number 4, page 78:
  Seven of his watercolours and screen prints are illustrated, and they include such fantasies as a sixteen-masted barque and a seven-layered steam locomotive.
- 1973, Horizon, volume 50, number 1, Horizon Publishers, page 50:
  The magnificent sixteen-masted bark at right, Eureka II, fell to pieces off Cape Hatteras, reports Crutchfield.
- 2017, Bradley P. Beaulieu, The winds of Khalakovo, Quillings Literary Services, →ISBN, page 405:
  Behind them, in the blowing snow, a small, eight-masted caravel resolved against the background of the dark grey clouds. Moments later, another came clear—a huge, sixteen-masted clipper.
- 1893, Meriwether Lewis, Elliott Coues, History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri River, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, Performed During the Years 1804–5–6, by Order of the Government of the United States, page 790:
  The others are: Youens, who comes also in a three-masted vessel, and is a trader; Tallamon, in a three-masted vessel, but is not a trader; Callalamet, in a ship of the same size; he is a trader and they say has a wooden leg
- 2002 September 1, Lynn M. Turner, Three Cuts of Courage, Hard Shell Word Factory, →ISBN, page 34:
  Already a dozen ships waited within: three-masted barquentine, two-masted brigs, and a handful of smaller sloops and schooners. With a rattle and bang, the anchor splashed into the Halifax Harbour waters.
- 2009, Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 113:
  In order to ward off pirates, the Rosita and a leased three-masted vessel, the Miceno, carried guns and 100 pounds of ammunition provided by Joel Abbott, commander of the U.S. East India Squadron.
- 2014 February 26, The Stationery Office, Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Export of Objects of Cultural Interest 2012/13, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 24:
  The Kathleen & May is a three-masted topsail schooner built largely in wood with a variety of metal fastenings and fixtures, and is fully rigged with textile sails set from wooden spars.

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