The Dutch built pinnaces during the early 17th century.[citation needed] Dutch pinnaces had a hull form resembling a small "race-built" galleon, and was usually rigged as a ship (square rigged on three masts), or carried a similar rig on two masts (in a fashion akin to the later "brig"). Pinnaces were used as merchant vessels, pirate vessels and small warships. Not all were small vessels, some being nearer to larger ships in tonnage.