Barque

A barque, sometimes spelled bark, originally referred to a particular type of ship-rigged sailing vessel with a plain bluff bow and a full stern with windows. HM Bark Endeavour, commanded by Captain James Cook was a famous example.

By the end of the 18th century, however, the term came to refer to any vessel with a particular type of rig comprised of three (or more) masts, fore and aft sails on the aftermost mast and square sails on all other masts. A well-preserved example of a commercial barque built in 1878 is Falls of Clyde, now preserved as a museum ship in Honolulu. The United States Coast Guard still has an operational Barque, built in Germany in 1936 and captured as a war prize, the Eagle (http://www.uscg.mil/datasheet/wixtrain.htm).

Related rigs are brigantine (2 masts), barquentine (square-rigged on only the fore mast), and the sole instance of a vessel with 2 fore-and-aft rigged masts and 2 square-rigged (the Olympia).

Throughout the period of sail, the word also was used as a shortening of the barca-longa of the Mediterranean Sea.

Standing rigging of a 3-masted barque

1. Fore-royal
2. Flying-jib stay
3. Outer-jib stay
4. Inner-jib stay
5. Fore-topmast stay
6. Fore-stay   6'.Jib-boom stay, Martingale stay
7. Bobstay
8. Martingale guys, Martingale back ropes
9. Martingale boom, Martingale
10. Flying martingale stay, Flying jib boom stay
11. Jib foot rope
12. Bowsprit shroud
13. Flying-jib guy
14. Bowsprit
15. Outer-jib boom
16. Flying-jib boom
17. Crane for the anchors
18. Capstan
19. Lighthouse for the sidelights
20. Anchor purchase
21. Vangs for the crane
22. Hawse holes, Hawse pipes
23. Stem
24. The bow
25. Boat
26. Forecastle
27. Damper on the brace-booms
28. Guys on the brace-booms
29. Fore-mast
30. Fore-rigging, Fore lower rigging
31. Rigging screws
32. Top backstay, Backstay for the Masthead
33. Futtockshroud
34. Fore-top
35. Sling-chain for the Fore-yard
36. Parral on Fore-yard
37. Fore-yard
38. Horses
39. Stirrups
40. Yard-arm horses
41. Fore-lifts
42. Topmast
43. Topmast futtockshroud
44. Truss-hoop Futtockring
45. Fore-topmast crosstrees
46. Outrigger
47. Mast Gap
48. Topmast shroud
49. Fore-top gallantmast
50. • Fore-top gallantmast rigging
    • Head funel, Stop
51. Fore-royal mast
52. • Fore-royal mast rigging
    • Head, Funnel, Stop
53. Pole
54. Truck
55. Fore lower topsail yard
56. Fore upper topsail yard
57. Fore topsail lifts
58. Fore topgallant yard
59. Fore topgallant lifts
60. Fore-royal yard
61. Fore-royal lifts
62. Spur or Standard for Fore lower topsail yard
63. Fore royal braces
64. Fore topgallant brace pendants
65. Fore topgallant braces
66. Fore runner on Fore upper topsail braces
67. Fore upper topsail brace pendants
68. Burton on Fore upper topsail braces
69. Fore runner on Fore lower topsail braces
70. Fore lower topsail brace pendants
71. Burtons on Fore lower topsail braces
72. Fore brace pendants
73. Lower Fore brace pendants
74. Fore-braces
75. Fore top rnast backstays
76. Fore topgallant backstays
77. Fore royal backstays
78. Sheerpole, Sheer batten
79. Main-shroud
80. Main-mast
81. Main-parral
82. Sling-chain for the Main yard
83. Main-futtock shroud
84. Main-top
85. Rigging screws on the topmast shroud
86. Standard for Main lower topsailyard
87. Head of the Main-mast
88. Main-topmast shroud
89. Main lower topsail parral
90. Main topmast
91. Neclace, Trusshoop, Futtockring
92. Topmast futtock shroud
93. Brace bloks
94. Main topmast crosstrees
95. Topmast cap
96. Main topgallant mast
97. Main-topgallant mast rigging and Flead, Funnel, Stop
98. Main-royal mast
99. Main-royal mast rigging and Head, Funnel, Stop
100. Royal mast pole
101. Main truck
102. Main-royal lifts
103. Main-royal yard
104. Main-topgallant lifts
105. Main-topgallant yard
106. Main upper topsail lifts
107. Main upper topsail yard
108. Main lower topsail yard
109. Main-lifts
110. Main-yard
111. Main-stay
112. Main topmast stay
113. Main topgallant mast stay
114. Main-royal mast stay
115. Main-top backstay
116. Main-topmast backstays
117. Main-topgallant backstays
118. Main-royal backstays
119. Main-royal braces
120. Main-royal brace pendants
121. Main topgallant braces
122. Fore runner on main upper topsail braces
123. Main upper topsail brace pendants
124. Main upper topsail braces
125. Fore runner on main lower topsail braces
126. Main lower topsail brace pendants
127. Main lower topsail braces
128. Main braee pendants
129. Lower Main brace pendants
130. Main braees
131. Mizzen stay
132. Mizzen-topmast stay
133. Mizzen topgallant stay
134. Mizzen-shroud
135. Mizzen-mast
136. Necklace, Trusshoop
137. Mizzen futtock shrond
138. Mizzen top, Mizzen crosstrees
139. Mizzen cap
140. Mizzen topmast
141. Mizzen topmast shroud
142. Brace blocks
143. Topmast rigging and Head, Funnel
144. Mizzen topgallant mast
145. Topgallant mast rigging and Head, Funnel
146. Mast pole
147. Mizzen truck
148. Mizzen topgallant backstay
149. Mizzen topmast backstays
150. Peak halliard
151. Crowfoot on peak halliard
152. Ensign halliard
153. Vang pendants
154. Vangs
155. Mizzen gaff
156. Mizzen throat
157. Mizzen-boom lifts, Spanker-boom lifts
158. Mizen-boom; Spanker-boom
159. Goose neck on Mizzen-boom
160. Mizzen-sheet, Spanker-sheet
161. Spanker-boom guys
162. Rails
163. Boat davits
164. Boat cleats
165. Life boats
166. Boat taekles
167. Guy between the davits
168. Davit guy (aft)
169. Davit guy (fore)

External links

• Description of a four-masted barque (http://www.greatervancouverparks.com/KaiwoMaru03.html).

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