five-masted

five-masted (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Having five masts.
   • 1909, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the United States. Part I: General conditions of transportation by water., page 143:

     The first five-masted seagoing schooner was built in 1888, the Governor Ames, of 1,778 tons, designed for the trade between the southern coal ports and New England. Five-masted schooners had, however, been used on the Great Lakes before that date.

   • 2012 June 11, Romola Anderson; R. C. Anderson, A Short History of the Sailing Ship, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 124:

     The biggest of all was the French five-masted barque France, built in 1913 and wrecked in 1923. She was 430 feet long and 55¾ feet wide.

   • 2015, Matthew Lawrence, Deborah Marx and John Galluzzo, Shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank:: Disaster in New England's National Marine Sanctuary, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 52:

     The transition from four-masted to five-masted schooners was not a fluid development. In 1888, the Leverett Storer shipyard in Waldoboro, Maine, built the first five-master on the East Coast: the Governor Ames.

   • 2021 May 27, Kent Augustson, The Twenty-five Years that Changed the World: Our Place in Time Volume II, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 11:

     Warships (five-masted, 165 ft. long); each one a mighty ship unsurpassed in their day.