Four-masted barques were the workhorses of the last days of commercial sail. This article considers how different they were from their predecessors, and how their development included a final boom in square rig shipbuilding. It also discusses the degree to which they benefited, or not, from technical developments in the maritime world.


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    Title :

    The Austin Farrar Memorial Article


    Subtitle :

    Technology and the Four-masted Commercial Sailing Ship, 1875–1950


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    The Mariner's Mirror ; 98 , 4 ; 409-420


    Publication date :

    2012-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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