Shipbuilding

A bark has three or more masts with all but the after most mast square-rigged. The aft mast is fore-and-aft rigged.

The diagram is from the Nova Scotia Musuem Informational poster, Sailing Ship Rigs.

A ship has three masts, all three square-rigged. This was the typical rig for clipper ships, Down Easters, and other sailing vessels in the deep sea trades.

The diagram is from the Nova Scotia Museum informational poster, Sailing Ship Rigs.

A brig has two masts, both square-rigged.

The diagram is from the Nova Scotia Musuem Informational poster, Sailing Ship Rigs.

Schooners are fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessels, with at least two masts; the after mast is the same height or taller than the foremast. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, all schooners had only two masts.

The diagram is from the Nova Scotia Museum Informational poster, Sailing Ship Rigs.

Schooners are fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessels with at least two masts; the after mast is the same height or taller than the foremast. Three-masted schooners were also called tern schooners. The only 7 masted schooner was the Thomas W. Lawson. More commonly found in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th century coastal trade were 4 and 5 masters. A few six masters were built.

The diagram is from the Nova Scotia Museum Informational poster, Sailing Ship Rigs.

J. Hunt's 1607 map of Ft. St. George in Popham, Maine, showed a sketch of a pinnace, thought to be the Virginia, built at the Popham colony in 1607-1608. How accurate an image this is, is hard to determine, but it does correspond with what other sources call a pinnace. Virginia was the first European style vessel to be built in North America. After sailing some of the colonists home in 1608, she made at least two more transatlantic voyages to Jamestown. Virginia lies just to the left of the fort in the drawing, turned 90 degrees. 

With the frames in place, the shipbuilder is laying out where the keelson will be placed, along the centerline of the ship, on top of the frames. Note the auger used to drill holes for treenails. These were generally made by having a auger bit welded to a iron crank shaped handle. Two men have are boring, while the others are posing for the camera.

The Brewer waterfront from the Bangor shore or from a boat in the Penobscot River. The large building to the right is an ice house. Next to it lies the Barbour shipyard with a steamboat, probably the Sedgwick under construction.