25 Sep 22:
An painting depicting the snow-brig ST. JACQUES surfaced recently at auction, without much accompanying information. The ship depicted in the painting is period correct for the time frame that the Skipper's 4th Great Grandfather Pierre Surget was Captain on a snow-brig named ST. JACQUES, so could this be his boat in later years..?
(Painting by Frederick Roux: Image credit of painting unknown)
The snow/snau is a specific type of brig, a brig with a 3rd smaller mast to handle a fore-aft gaff or sloop rig. The mast gradually moved forward over the years and eventually the rigging was set off of a cable on the mainmast. Fast and handy, snows would have been the choice of patriot-pirate-privateers.
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