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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 144362, member: 25&quot;]Webster is using the modern generic description of a ship, as is appropriate for the current speakers of English. None the less, in the period this model represents the distinction would have been as clear and important to seafaring folk as the distinction between a car, a van and a truck nowadays.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just because the language has in this respect become degraded is no excuse not to bear in mind that when these distinctions were important, the terms for sailing craft would have quite clear, no-one would have described a barque as a pink, or a brigantine as a wherry.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason I make a point of this is that to identify a period model of a vessel, using the correct nomenclature makes it far easier to identify something from a written description. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is like putting the right name for something into a seach engine. You get fewer irrelevant results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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