bark or barque

Ships were generally classed by the way they were rigged for sail. A bark (also spelt barque) is a sailing ship which has:

three masts,
square sails on the front or forward mast
square sails on the middle or mast mast, and
triangular sails on the back or mizzen mast.

They were relatively small sailing ships in the 1830s.

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