The Hispaniola
Does anyone know what class ship was used for the Hispaniola in the movie
shareThe book indicates it was schooner around 200 tons. In the movie, the Hispaniola is not rigged like a schooner, its square rigged if I remember right, so I'd guess that would make it more of a brig or some other type merchant vessel.
Dammit, now I'm going to have to go watch this movie again...
Ahhh......the old Hispaniola. This story was set in 1765, well past the Golden Age of Piracy....but the clothing in this film looks to be from the 1720's. The large cuffs were definitely out by 1765.
shareHispaniola was a schooner (sails rigged fore-and-aft and gaff-rigged) in the story, as you say, but in the film she has a short mizzen and thus is not a brig (two masts only--fore and main mast).
Hispaniola in the film is a "ship-rigged," a term for a vessel with three masts (fore, main, and mizzen) all square-rigged, differentiating it from the two-masted brig.
Such vessels were commonly called, simply, "ships" but some, such as Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour (a former collier) were re-rigged as a bark (sails on the fore and main square-rigged but rigged fore-and-aft on the mizzen).