from the sea in the same year. Under her new master Captain T. H. Evans she sailed between New Zealand, Australia and the US west coast in the timber trade. Towards the end of World War I she changed hands to Thomas Crowley & Co. In that time she was re-rigged as a four-masted barquentine with a square-rigged foremast and three fore-and-aft rigged other masts. During the slump years cargo space of a sailing ship wasn't needed anymore. After being laid up for some years the 30-year-old ship was converted into a towing barge. The California A well-known example of a steel four-masted jackass-barque was the California (1890), the last and largest of the White Star sailing ships. The use of steel enabled the addition of another hundred feet to the two hundred foot effective maximum length of a wooden vessel. A fourth mast, called the jigger, provided the driving power for the increased length. The lower and topmast were built in one steel tubular piece. Mechanical improvements were introduced to the rigging. On the Great Lakes The City of Grand Haven had two masts "set far apart to accommodate high piles of lumber on the deck and to make it easier to load and unload the vessel. This rig was called the Grand Haven Rig or (Jack Ass Rig)..." It was said to have been the result of a serendipity, when the master of a three-masted schooner had its mainmast removed due to rot, and found how well the ship sailed. There "were at least a dozen craft with this rig many of them in Lake Michigan." Similar rigs might be called a "jackass schooner." Bibliography See also Barque Barquentine Schooner SS Great Eastern, a ship with paddle wheels and a screw propeller, also rigged with six masts, three (1,5,6) fore-and-aft rigged and three (2,3,4) square-rigged References External links 3-masted jackass-barque Ziba with four square top sails on her main mast 4-masted jackass-barque Olympic at drydock in Bath in 1892 with the main sky yard taken down on deck Barques Sailing rigs and rigging Sailing ship types Tall ships de:Schonerbark