She was a four-masted vessel, fitted with double topsails, with a spread of canvas about 4,500 square yards.
Below them a four-masted schooner was tacking in the light wind.
This 'ere is a real simon pure, four-masted womern an' she wants you fer Captain.
Used to be cap'n of a four-masted schooner, till he hurt his back and had to stay ashore.
Fourteen four-masted ships, a part of them with crews of two hundred and fifty men, were equipped and victualled for two years.
