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schooner A schooner ( ) is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel defined by its Rig (sailing), rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more Mast (sailing), masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than t ...

-rigged vessels.

Active schooners

Historical schooners

* '' A. W. Greely'', originally named ''Donald II'' * '' Ada K. Damon'' * ''

Albatross Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Paci ...

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America The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

'' * '' American Spirit'' * '' La Amistad'' * '' Annie Larsen'' * '' Arbuthnot'' * '' ''Atlantic'''' * '' Benjamin C. Cromwell'' * '' Bertha L. Downs'' * '' Bethune Blackwater Schooner'' * '' Bluenose'' * '' Booya'' * '' Texan schooner Brutus'', First Texas Navy * ''

Casuarina ''Casuarina'', also known as she-oak, Australian pine and native pine, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae, and is native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and e ...

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Chasseur ''Chasseur'' ( , ), a French term for "hunter", is the designation given to certain regiments of French and Belgian light infantry () or light cavalry () to denote troops trained for rapid action. History This branch of the French Army o ...

'' * '' Carroll A. Deering'' * '' City of New York (1885 ship)'' * '' Clipper City'' * '' Columbia'' * '' Cora F. Cressey'' * '' Coverack'' * * '' Cymric'' * '' Delawana'' * * '' Diosa del Mar'' * * '' Dorothea Weber'' * '' Dorothea Weber'' * '' Edward M Reed'' * '' Edward J. Lawrence'' * '' Empire Contamar'' * * '' Endymion'' * '' Enterprize'' * ''

Equator The equator is the circle of latitude that divides Earth into the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Southern Hemisphere, Southern Hemispheres of Earth, hemispheres. It is an imaginary line located at 0 degrees latitude, about in circumferen ...

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Esperanto Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...

'' * ''Fantome'' * ''Forester'' * '' Fort Chesterfield'' * * '' Gertrude L. Thebaud'' * '' Golden State'' * '' Governor Ames'' * * , first armed American naval vessel * '' Happy Harry'' * * '' Helen Miller Gould'' * ''

Henry Ford Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American Technological and industrial history of the United States, industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automob ...

'' * '' Henry Roop'' * '' Hesper and Luther Little'' * * '' Hope Haynes'' * '' Ilsley'' * '' Inca (schooner)'', 5-masted * ''

Independence Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state, in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the status of ...

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'', First Texas Navy * * '' Invincible'', First Texas Navy * * '' James Postlethwaite'' * * '' Joffre'', shipwreck listed on the American

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

* ''Lady Ada'' * ''

Liberty Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. The concept of liberty can vary depending on perspective and context. In the Constitutional ...

'' First Texas Navy * '' Liverpool Packet'' * '' Lucia A. Simpson'' * * SS ''Mahratta'' * '' Marie Clarisse'' ex '' Archie F. MacKenzie'' * ''Margarethe'' * '' Mary B Mitchell'' * * * '' O. H. Brown'' * '' Olad'' * '' Paul Palmer'', 5-masted * '' Phoenix'' * * * '' Postboy'' * ''

Pretoria Pretoria ( ; ) is the Capital of South Africa, administrative capital of South Africa, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to the country. Pretoria strad ...

'' * '' Pride of Baltimore'' * ''

Reaper A reaper is a farm implement that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass, especially wheat. The first documented reaping machines were Gallic reapers that were used ...

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Rebecca Rebecca () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca's father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim. Rebecca's brother was Laban (Bi ...

'' * ''Result'', in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum * '' River Witham'' * '' Rouse Simmons'' * ''

Royalist A royalist supports a particular monarch as head of state for a particular kingdom, or of a particular dynastic claim. In the abstract, this position is royalism. It is distinct from monarchism, which advocates a monarchical system of gove ...

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San Antonio San Antonio ( ; Spanish for " Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio. San Antonio is the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the ...

'' Second Texas Navy * '' San Bernard'' Second Texas Navy * '' San Jacinto'' Second Texas Navy * ''

St Helena Saint Helena (, ) is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory. Saint Helena is a volcanic and tropical island, located in the South Atlantic Ocean, some 1,874 km ...

'' * '' Santa Eulàlia (Catalan Pailebot/schooner, 1919)'' * '' Samuel P. Ely'' * '' Speranța'', 2-masted gaff, square topsails * * *'' Tho Pa Ga''Sinking of ''Tho Pa Ga'', 16 July 2008
* '' Thomas W. Lawson'' * '' Thomas G. Matteson (New York Pilot Schooner N.Y. 20)'' * '' Tyrronall'' * * '' Virgen de Covadonga'' * '' Wanderer (slave ship)'' * * '' Wawona'' * '' Wawaloam'' * '' Westward'' * '' George H. Wetter'' * '' William F. Garms'' * * ''Wuta'' * ''Wyoming'' * * '' Zavala'', the first steamship of war in the western hemisphere, Second Texas Navy * ''Zawisza Czarny I''

Fictional schooners

* ''Demeter'', used by Dracula to travel from Varna to Whitby in

Bram Stoker Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912), better known by his pen name Bram Stoker, was an Irish novelist who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel ''Dracula''. The book is widely considered a milestone in Vampire fiction, and one of t ...

's novel ''

Dracula ''Dracula'' is an 1897 Gothic fiction, Gothic horror fiction, horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is Epistolary novel, related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens ...

'' * ''Dragon'', in Iain Lawrence's The Smugglers and The Buccaneers, The High Seas Trilogy * ''Ebba'', Ker Karraje's pirate schooner in

Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...

's Facing the Flag * ''Ghost'', seal-hunting schooner in

Jack London John Griffith London (; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t ...

's The Sea-Wolf * ''Hispaniola'', a schooner in

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...

Treasure Island ''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure a ...

* ''Kestrel'', Revolutionary War privateering topsail schooner, Danelle Harmon's Captain of My Heart, My Lady Pirate, and Wicked at Heart * ''Lucretia'', Cleopatra Highbourne's schooner in Jimmy Buffett's book A Salty Piece of Land * ''Prudence'' & ''Apostle 1219'', in Iain Lawrence's The Smugglers and The Buccaneers, The High Seas Trilogy * ''Ringle'', a Baltimore clipper, in

Patrick O'Brian Patrick O'Brian (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series. These sea novels are set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and ...

's ''The Commodore'' and subsequent novels in the

Aubrey–Maturin series The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the R ...

* ''Seaspray'', a privately owned topsail schooner belonging to journalist Dan Wells in the Roger Mirams 1960's Australian TV series

Adventures of the Seaspray An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme s ...

* ''Sweet Judy'', in

Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and Satire, satirist, best known for the ''Discworld'' series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the Apocalyp ...

Nation A nation is a type of social organization where a collective Identity (social science), identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, t ...

* Unnamed Schooner, crewed by Kris Kristofferson's character in the song,

Highwayman A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers. This type of thief usually travelled and robbed by horse as compared to a footpad who travelled and robbed on foot; mounted highwaymen were widely considered to be socially superior to foo ...

by The Highwaymen. * Unnamed Schooner, claimed to belong to

Larry David Lawrence Gene David (born July 2, 1947) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer. He is known for his dry wit, portrayals of awkward social situations, and brutally honest takes on everyday life. He has received two Prim ...

in HBO's

Curb Your Enthusiasm ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', also known colloquially simply as ''Curb'', is an American television comedy of manners created by Larry David that premiered on HBO with an hour-long special in October 17, 1999, followed by 12 seasons broadcast from Oc ...

* "We're Here", in Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous * ''Wild Cat'', in Arthur Ransome, Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series, Swallows and Amazons stories Peter Duck and Missee Lee

References

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Active schooners

Historical schooners

Fictional schooners

See also

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