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barque
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thumb|Three-masted barque (United States Revenue Cutter Service|US Revenue Cutter Salmon P. Chase, 1878–1907) thumb|Three-masted barque sail plan
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Bark
- Barque rig
- Barques and barque shrines in Ancient Egypt
- Barque of St. Peter
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Three-masted barque (United States Revenue Cutter Service|US Revenue Cutter Salmon P. Chase, 1878–1907) thumb|Three-masted barque sail plan
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) is rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “barque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.