A Schooner is a two-masted vessel, with fore and aft topsails, which are called gaff-topsails. Sometimes she has a square fore-topsail and top-gallantsail.
A Brigantine is something between a schooner and a brig, and is worked either with oars (called sweeps) or sails.
DUTCH GALLEOT.
A Dutch Galleot is rigged like a schooner, but of a broader and more Chinese build, her bottom being nearly flat.
A Billy-boy is rigged sometimes like a sloop, and sometimes like a schooner; but her bottom is nearly flat, and she draws but little water.
A Smack is a small vessel with one mast like a cutter, used principally for fishing.