{"id":173,"date":"2018-08-28T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/?p=173"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:10:15","slug":"four-masted-merchant-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/blog\/four-masted-merchant-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Masted Merchant Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>This site becoming a &#8220;site-of-call&#8221; for &#8216;ship-lovers&#8217;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Many square-rig enthusiasts, and experts in related aspects of maritime history, are making this site (<b>www.ScottishClipper.com<\/b>) a port-of-call in their researches. An increasingly large group of contacts (around the world) intimates a wide range of erstwhile hidden knowledge of 19th Century iron and steel ships, and in particular four-masted sailing vessels. This is good news.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Numbers of 4-masted ships?<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>There are signs of on-going work, by dedicated enthusiasts, to identify each of the 4-masted iron\/steel ships, barques and shipentines (a term used in USA) which were built. Work continues to establish exactly how many 4-masted &#8216;full rig&#8217; ships and barques existed. Ask this question of the experts, and it reveals a considerable debate about the precise number of &#8220;4-masted ships ever built&#8221;. Adequate specification or other evidence is not always available. Estimates range from 397 to 455 at the last count, depending on a number of factors. Allowances must also be made for many &#8216;converted&#8217; vessels where the number and utilisation of masts varied. If you have more up-to-date numbers please contact this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site becoming a &#8220;site-of-call&#8221; for &#8216;ship-lovers&#8217; Many square-rig enthusiasts, and experts in related aspects of maritime history, are making this site (www.ScottishClipper.com) a port-of-call in their researches. An increasingly large group of contacts (around the world) intimates a wide range of erstwhile hidden knowledge of 19th Century iron and steel ships, and in particular &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/blog\/four-masted-merchant-vessels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Four Masted Merchant Vessels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vortext.org\/scotclip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}