square-rigger

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Recent Examples of square-rigger The Pacific had struck the Orpheus, a 1,100-ton square-rigger that was traveling north along the Washington coast to load a shipment of coal at Nanaimo in British Columbia. Joel Sams, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025 Lindblad Expeditions' Sailing the Caribbean Aboard Sea Cloud Duration: Seven nights What to expect: This cruise aboard Sea Cloud, a historic square-rigger ship that can accommodate 64 passengers, begins in Bridgetown, Barbados, for a true sailing adventure. Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for square-rigger
Noun
  • The 200 square miles of surrounding coral reefs proved rough for mariners, but divers now reap the benefits with some 300 shipwrecks to explore, from the 192-foot American schooner Constellation that sank during World War II to the Mary Celestia, a Civil War era paddle-wheeler.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 22 May 2025
  • The Californian is a 41 year-old wooden topsail schooner that was built as a replica of the 1847 Revenue Cutter C.W. Lawrence.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • The brand has worked on several high-profile legacy ship restoration projects, such as the Cynara, a 96-foot classic yacht built by Camper and Nicholson in 1927 that was expertly restored in Japan in 2021, reinforcing its anchor positioning in the classic sailing sector.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 31 July 2025
  • Hello magazine publishes photos of de Armas and Cruise vacationing together on a yacht in Menorca, Spain.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • One of the survivors was Henry Percy, aide de camp to Wellington, who after the Battle had to row halfway across the Channel with the news of the Duke’s victory, as an absence of wind had halted his sloop.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • After an encounter with a whale-like dino, their sloop capsizes.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Reflecting the masts and sails of a Spanish galleon rising from the sand, the installation symbolizes irreversible choices and the sacrifices required for collective liberation.
    Lilian Raji, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • There’s no music, either, to soften or ennoble proceedings, only the indifferent murmur of weather over the startling debris of human conflict, or the slow creak of a galleon on lapping waters as sailors are sent cruelly to their deaths.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • Those who prefer something more active can rent jet skis or head on a catboat tour in a two-person catamaran.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2024
  • At the Seafire, everything from nautical motif chairs upholstered in international flags to a traditional wooden Cayman catboat and prints from local pop artist Dready are found beneath the lobby’s 20-foot ceiling, grounded by natural materials, like weathered wood and polished coral stone.
    Shayne Benowitz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • Blasetti is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly swiping a keelboat from the Dyckman Marina in Inwood around noon Saturday and rowed it to a trimaran moored out in the Hudson River.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 24 July 2025
  • However, apart from his time competing on high-speed M32 catamarans, Canfield’s experience and success have come through racing traditional keelboats.
    Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Those looking for a larger trailer with a galley will want to check out Badac's $24,000 SD-10, while those looking around for something even simpler than the SS-7 might consider its GH-7 gear-hauling tent-topper.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 June 2025
  • One was an old paper copy of the duplicate galleys for the last novel in the Toronto Trilogy, which bore an early version of the title—To Name the Bigger Light—shortened, of course, to The Bigger Light when it was published in 1975.
    Darcy Ballantyne July 16, Literary Hub, 16 July 2025

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“Square-rigger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/square-rigger. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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