yacht...... east indiaman,galleon,frigate,man o war,ship of the line were the largest type of sailing vessels
Second answer
Mostly the word "ship" was reserved to the larger kinds with three or more masts and a full bowsprit, while the smaller types were named for their sail-plan, e.g. barque, brig, brigantine.... So in general the answer is that large sailing ships were called "ships" and that it was the small ones that had different names.
There were some types of large ships as mentioned above (except for "frigate" and "yacht", frigates were small ships, and yachts are boats: they have a single mast), but no other general term for large ships as distinguished from small ones.
They still are
Wooden sailing ships.
The ships he used were mostly large sailing ships from France, and Caravels. Three of them were called the Esperanza, San Christoval, and Miguel.
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A Clipper was the fastest of all sailing ships.For a sailing ships to be faster draught of that ship must be low.Other fast-sailing ships are:CarrackCaravelSloopSchoonerBrigBrigandineBarque
they were called Sailing Ships
A brig or a bark.
Some of the earliest sailing ships were merely rafts, as proven by Thor Heyerdahl with the "Kon Tiki" in 1947.
That would be our clipper ships, sailor!
They were called shipwrights
First were sailing ships, THEN steam ships.
Sailing ships had rudders at the stern.