Editing Sailing ship (section)

==Examples==
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These are examples of sailing ships; some terms have multiple meanings:

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'''Defined by general configuration'''
* [[Caravel]]: small maneuverable ship, lateen rigged
* [[Carrack]]: three or four masted ship, square-rigged forward, lateen-rigged aft
* [[Clipper]]: a merchant ship designed specifically for speed
* [[Cog (ship)|Cog]]: plank-built, one-masted, square-rigged vessel
* [[Dhow]]: a lateen-rigged merchant or fishing vessel
* [[Djong (ship)|Djong]]: large tradeship used by ancient Indonesian and Malaysian people
* [[Fluyt]]: a Dutch oceangoing merchant vessel, rigged similarly to a galleon 
* [[Galleon]]: a large, primarily square-rigged, armed cargo carrier of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
* [[Junk (ship)|Junk]]: a lug-rigged Chinese ship, which included many types, models and variants. 
* [[Koch (boat)|Koch]]: small, Russian [[clinker-built]] ship, designed for use in Arctic waters
* [[Longship]]: vessels used by the Vikings, with a single mast and square sail, also propelled by oars.
* [[Pinisi]]: Indonesia's traditional sailing ship
* [[Pink (ship)|Pink]]: in the Atlantic, a small oceangoing ship with a narrow stern.
* [[snow (ship)|Snow]]: a brig carrying a square mainsail and often a spanker on a [[trysail]] mast
* [[Superyacht|Sailing superyacht]]: a large sailing [[yacht]]
* [[Hokulea|Waʻa kaulua]]: Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe
* [[Windjammer]]: (informal) large [[Iron-hulled sailing ship|merchant sailing ship with an iron or steel hull]]
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'''Defined by sail plan'''

''All masts have fore-and-aft sails''
* [[Schooner]]: fore-and-aft rigged sails, with two or more masts, the aftermost mast taller or equal to the height of the forward {{not a typo|mast(s)}}
''All masts have square sails''
* [[Brig]]: two masts, square rigged (may have a spanker on the aftermost)
* [[Full-rigged ship]]: three or more masts, all of them square rigged
''Mixture of masts with square sails and masts with fore-and-aft sails''
* [[Barque]], or "bark": at least three masts, fore-and-aft rigged [[mizzen]] mast
* [[Barquentine]]: at least three masts with all but the foremost fore-and-aft rigged
* [[Bilander]]: a ship or brig with a [[lug sail|lug-rigged]] mizzen sail
* [[Brigantine]]: two masts, with the foremast square-rigged
* [[Hermaphrodite brig]]: a brigantine
'''Military vessels'''
* [[Corvette]]: lightly armed, fast sailing vessel
* [[Cutter (ship)|Cutter]]: small naval vessel, fore-and-aft rigged, single mast with two headsails
* [[sailing frigate|Frigate]]: a ship-rigged warship with a single gundeck 
* [[Ship of the line]]: the largest warship in European navies, ship-rigged
* [[Xebec]]: a Mediterranean warship adapted from a galley, with three lateen-rigged masts
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