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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