Snow

Description

The most common two-masted merchant vessel in northern Europe. They looked rather like a brig with two square-rigged masts, a main and a foremast, but to the seaman, the additional trysail mast hoisting a gaff-headed loose-footed sail abaft the main mast was unmistakable. When brigs were rigged as snows, they used a horse (stout rope) as the trysail mast, the fore part of the sail being attached by rings to it.

Stats

• Crew - 30-120 men (average - 60)
• Passangers - 10
• Speed (Knots) - 18
• Max Guns - 20 (10 broadside)
• Max gun size - 9 lbs
• Hull Points - 220
• Cargo - 120 ton
• Length - 100 ft
• Draft - 15 ft
• Manuever - 5