Snow (ship)
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A snow (pronounced "snoo") or snaw, a two-masted merchant vessel of the 16th through the 19th centuries, the largest two-masted ship of her period, had a tonnage of up to around 1,000 tons. Resembling a brig and primarily used as a merchant ship, the snow also saw war service. She carried square sails on both masts, but had a small trysail mast (also called a 'snowmast') stepped immediately abaft the mainmast. This mast could carry a trysail with a boom, with the luff of the trysail hooped to it. Sometimes, instead of a trysail mast, snows carried a horse on the mainmast, with the luff of the trysail attached to it by rings.
Snows also carried immigrants to America. A ship called the Snow Rowand left Rotterdam and sailed to the port of Philadelphia, arriving in September 1753 (see immigrantships.net).
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