Ms. Bertone
Use these websites to answer the questions in your webquest:
Frigate - great diagrams with a side view, cutaway view, overhead view, and a detailed view of a single mast.
History of Sailing Ships - from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - explains the evolution of the European sailing ships in the middle ages.
Tall Sailing Ships of Yesteryear - describes Barques, Blackwall Frigates, Brigs, Brigantines, Caravels, Clippers, Schooners, Sloops-of-War.
19th century Sailing Ships - describes the principal parts of a sailing ship in the British or American fleets of the 19th century, as well as the locations and naming protocol of masts, yards, gaffs, stays and booms and the sails they spread.
Local connections:
Tall Ships - a fan site about wooden tall ships, their construction and history.