HERMAPHRODITE BRIG rigged

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aukepalmhof
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HERMAPHRODITE BRIG rigged

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Dec 27, 2017 6:27 pm

St Pierre et Miquelon issued in 1989 a miniature sheet for “Philixfrance 89” in Paris and the bicentenary of the beginning of the Revolution and the storming of the Bastille in 1789 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille

One stamp has a maritime theme the top right stamp shows us the Bastille and in the foreground a sailing vessel, between the Bastille and the sailing vessel is a silhouette of St Pierre visible. The sailing vessel is rigged as a hermaphrodite brig. A term used in the late 18th and early 19th century for a vessel that carried as many as 5 square sails on the foremast and a fore-and-aft mainsail with a gaff topsail. Numerous staysails between the masts and the jibs to a long bowsprit.
The type is now mostly called a brigantine.
I think the vessel depict was used in the fishing on the Grand Banks and has not much to do with the Bastille.

Source: Aak to Zumbra a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft.
St Pierre et Miquelon 1989 5.00 Fr. sgMS 615, scott?a
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