Snow (ship) 502797 216480549 2008-06-01T21:11:38Z Jeltz 124613 [[Image:Brig Niagara 1913 edit.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The "snow-brig" ''USS Niagara'' (center) in 1913.]] A '''snow''' (pronounced "snoo") or '''snaw''', is a sailing vessel. A type of [[brig]] – snows are often-referred to as "snow-brigs" – snows were primarily used as a merchant ship, but saw war service. The twin brigs [[USS Lawrence (1813)|''Lawrence'']] and [[USS Niagara (1813)|''Niagara'']], American war-ships of the [[Battle of Lake Erie]] were both snows. Snows carried square [[sail]]s on both [[mast (sailing)|masts]], but had a small [[trysail]] mast, sometimes called a 'snowmast', stepped immediately abaft the [[mainmast]]. This mast could carry a trysail with a [[Boom (sailing)|boom]], with the [[luff]] of the trysail hooped to it. Sometimes, instead of a trysail mast, snows carried a [[horse (nautical) | horse]] on the mainmast, with the luff of the trysail attached to it by rings. The Snow ''Rowand'' left [[Rotterdam]] and sailed to the port of [[Philadelphia]], arriving in September 1753, ''q.v.'', ([http://www.immigrantships.net/v6/1700v6/rowand17530929.html immigrantships.net]). {{Sailing vessels and rigs}} {{water-stub}} [[Category:Sailing vessels and rigging]] [[de:Schnau]] [[fr:Senau]] [[ja:スノー (船)]] [[ru:Шнява]]