With the slow flow of the centuries, the sailing ship had conformed in all its forms to the varied necessity of the commerce and of the war, but finally, it found his more perfect formula under the form of the ship called Clipper by English from which gave origin to our "Brigantino," then disappeared from the seas forever. The brig is a type of very fast sailing-ship that becomes popular in the XIX century. Brigs gave inspiration for a lot of books and you legends. The term "Clipper" was referred to a completely new manner of building the bow of a ship. The long bow of the Brigs splits the water, instead of pushing it ahead like the paunchy bows of the more ancient hulls, being able to reach sometimes twenty-four knots: the speed of a modern transatlantic. The transport of the immigrants from Europe to America and the discovery of the gold in America and in Australia, gave an enormous impulse to the construction of these ships in the second half of the 1800.

The Brig were used for the commerce of tea with India, spices, ice, coal, rum. The speed that it was able to reach allowed a surer and more rapid commerce, because it was able to escape the frequent attacks of the pirates. Quickly the four seas became populated in each angle of this fast ship. Before of the invention of the steamships, the Brigs finished dashed on the rocks or swallowed by the seas or also attracted by the songs of perfidious sirens, or by the fires lighted by the farmers of the coasts to confuse the commanders and to cause therefore a rich shipwreck. Nowadays there is an only one original survivor of this fantastic ship: the "Cutty sark", now preserved in a basin of Greenwich in England.