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bucc | 11:05 Tue 16th Jan 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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What are stackies, stumpies and swimmies?
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Alternative names for Barges.
Specifically Thames spritsail barges.

Stackies carried huge loads of hay and straw piled on deck; often the ship's boy had to stand on top and direct the helmsman.

Stumpies had no topsail.

Swimmies had a flat bow, not pointed, known as a swimhead bow.
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