The foremast was set very much aft--often nearly amidships.

The snow was practically a brig, carrying a fore-and-aft sail on the mainmast, with a square sail directly above it.

A pink was rigged like a schooner, but without a bowsprit or jib.

For the fisheries a multitude of smaller types were constructed--such as the lugger, the shallop, the sharpie, the bug-eye, the smack.

Some of these survive to the present day, and in many cases the name has passed into disuse, while the type itself is now and then to be met with on our coasts.
The importance of ship-building as a factor in the development of New England did not rest merely upon the use of ships by the Americans alone.
That was a day when international trade was just beginning to be understood and pushed, and every people wanted ships to carry their goods to foreign lands and bring back coveted articles in exchange.