brigantine

Example Sentences

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Cortés deployed newly built brigantines with sails, oarsmen and cannon while blockading supplies of food and fresh water to the city.

From Los Angeles Times

Zebu is a registered historic traditional brigantine rigged tall ship and was declared the National Historic Ships regional flagship of the year for the north-west in 2020.

From BBC

And the brigantines and the rest of the European military technology also won Cortés thousands of allies among Native American groups that were hostile to Aztec rule.

From Time

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

From New York Times

He spent weeks on a 150-foot-long brigantine combing the Pacific for the Great Garbage Patch, an area about twice the size of France where marine currents accumulate the world’s discarded and degraded plastic rubbish.

From New York Times