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

-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 Pac ...

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America The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

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La Amistad ''La Amistad'' (; Spanish for ''Friendship'') was a 19th-century two- masted schooner, owned by a Spaniard colonizing Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives, who had been captured and sold to European slave ...

'' * '' Annie Larsen'' * '' Arbuthnot'' * '' ''Atlantic'''' * '' Benjamin C. Cromwell'' * '' Bertha L. Downs'' * '' Bethune Blackwater Schooner'' * ''

Bluenose ''Bluenose'' was a fishing and racing gaff rig schooner built in 1921 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. A celebrated racing ship and fishing vessel, ''Bluenose'' under the command of Angus Walters, became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia and ...

'' * '' Booya'' * '' Texan schooner Brutus'', First Texas Navy * ''

Casuarina ''Casuarina'' is a genus of 17 tree species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa. It was once treated as the sole genus in the fam ...

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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 or ...

'' * '' Carroll A. Deering'' * ''

City of New York (1885 ship) The ''City of New York'' was a steam barquentine best known for being Richard E. Byrd's flagship on his 1928–30 exploration of Antarctica, mistakenly for the rescue of Shackleton in 1915, and most infamously for possibly being the ship tha ...

'' * '' Clipper City'' * '' Columbia'' * ''

Coverack Coverack ( kw, Porthkovrek, meaning ''cove of the stream'') is a coastal village and fishing port in Cornwall, England. It lies in the parish of St Keverne, on the east side of the Lizard peninsula about south of Falmouth. Coverack has seve ...

'' * * '' Cymric'' * '' Delawana'' * * '' Diosa del Mar'' * * '' Dorothea Weber'' * '' Edward M Reed'' * '' Empire Cononley'' * '' Empire Contamar'' * * ''

Endymion Endymion primarily refers to: * Endymion (mythology), an Ancient Greek shepherd * ''Endymion'' (poem), by John Keats Endymion may also refer to: Fictional characters * Prince Endymion, a character in the ''Sailor Moon'' anime franchise * Raul ...

'' * '' Enterprize'' * ''

Equator The equator is a circle of latitude, about in circumference, that divides Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. It is an imaginary line located at 0 degrees latitude, halfway between the North and South poles. The term can al ...

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Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international commun ...

'' * ''Fantome'' * ''Forester'' * '' Fort Chesterfield'' * * '' Gertrude L. Thebaud'' * '' Golden State'' * ''

Governor Ames The ''Governor Ames'' was the first five-masted schooner. In the late 19th century, she was the world's largest cargo vessel. She was launched on December 1, 1888, by the Leavitt-Storer shipyard of Waldoboro, Maine, United States, and was named ...

'' * * , first armed American naval vessel * '' Happy Harry'' * * '' Helen Miller Gould'' * ''

Henry Ford Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that mi ...

'' * '' Henry Roop'' * '' Hesper and Luther Little'' * * '' Hope Haynes'' * '' Ilsley'' * ''

Inca (schooner) The Inca was "the first true five-masted schooner built on the West Coast." ''Inca'', "the second of her rig built on the Pacific, was launched at Port Blakely by Hall Bros. in 1896." Launching "The ''Inca'', because of its size and rig, had ...

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Independence Independence is a condition of a person, 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 st ...

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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 United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

* ''Lady Ada'' * ''

Liberty Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom. In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...

'' 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 Phoenix most often refers to: * Phoenix (mythology), a legendary bird from ancient Greek folklore * Phoenix, Arizona, a city in the United States Phoenix may also refer to: Mythology Greek mythological figures * Phoenix (son of Amyntor), a ...

'' * * * '' Postboy'' * ''

Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends eastward into the footh ...

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Pride of Baltimore The ''Pride of Baltimore'' was a reproduction of a typical early 19th-century "Baltimore clipper" topsail schooner. This was a style of vessel made famous by its success as a privateer commerce raider, a small warship in the War of 1812 (1812–18 ...

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

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Rebecca Rebecca, ; Syriac: , ) from the Hebrew (lit., 'connection'), from Semitic root , 'to tie, couple or join', 'to secure', or 'to snare') () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical ...

'' * ''Result'', in the

Ulster Folk and Transport Museum The Ulster Folk Museum and the Ulster Transport Museum are situated in Cultra, Northern Ireland, about east of the city of Belfast. The Folk Museum endeavours to illustrate the way of life and traditions of the people in Northern Ireland, past ...

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River Witham The River Witham is a river almost entirely in the county of Lincolnshire in the east of England. It rises south of Grantham close to South Witham at , passes through the centre of Grantham (where it may be closely followed using the Riversid ...

'' * '' 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 governme ...

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Second Texas Navy The Texas Navy, officially the Navy of the Republic of Texas, also known as the Second Texas Navy, was the naval warfare branch of the Texas Military Forces during the Republic of Texas. It descended from the Texian Navy, which was established in ...

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St Helena Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constitu ...

'' * '' 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) ''Wanderer'' was the next to last documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia on November 28, 1858. It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people ...

'' * * '' Wawona'' * ''

Wawaloam Wawaloam (before 1620 – after 1661) (also known as Wararme) was a leader of the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island, and she was the wife of Miantonomi. Wawaloam was a daughter of Sowheag (often mis-stated to be Sequasson), an ally of Miantonom ...

'' * '' Westward'' * '' William F. Garms'' * * ''Wuta'' * ''Wyoming'' * * '' Zavala'', the first steamship of war in the western hemisphere,

* ''Zawisza Czarny I''

Fictional schooners

* ''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 ...

Facing the Flag ''Facing the Flag'' or ''For the Flag'' (french: Face au drapeau) is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the ''Voyages extraordinaires'' series. Like ''The Begum's Millions'', which Verne published in 1879, it has the t ...

* ''Ghost'', seal-hunting schooner in

Jack London John Griffith Chaney (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 to ...

The Sea-Wolf Seawolf, Sea wolf or Sea Wolves may refer to: Animals * Sea wolf, a wolf subspecies found in the Vancouver coastal islands * Seawolf (fish), a marine fish also known as wolffish or sea wolf * A nickname of the killer whale * South American sea ...

* ''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 a ...

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 n ...

* ''Kestrel'', Revolutionary War privateering topsail schooner, Danelle Harmon's Captain of My Heart, My Lady Pirate, and Wicked at Heart * ''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, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and cen ...

'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 Ro ...

* ''Seaspray'', a privately owned topsail schooner belonging to journalist Dan Wells in the

Roger Mirams Roger Eastgate Holden Mirams (16 April 1918 – 26 February 2004) was a New Zealand-born film producer and director, whose career extended over 60 years. Mirams co-directed '' Broken Barrier'', the only local dramatic feature film made in New Zeal ...

1960's Australian TV Series "The Adventures of the Seaspray" * ''Sweet Judy'', in

Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his ''Discworld'' series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first no ...

Nation A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those ...

* Unnamed Schooner, crewed by Chris 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 foot ...

by The Highwaymen. * "We're Here", in

Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)'' The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. ...

Captains Courageous ''Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks'' is an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese f ...

* 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 and Jerry Seinfeld created the television sitcom ''Seinfeld'', on which David was head writer and executive producer for the first seve ...

in HBO's

Curb Your Enthusiasm ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'' is an American television sitcom produced and broadcast by HBO since October 15, 2000, and created by Larry David, who stars as a semi-fictionalized version of himself. It follows David's life as a semi-retired televisi ...

* Lucretia, Cleopatra Highbourne's schooner in

Jimmy Buffett's Jimmy may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Jimmy'' (2008 film), a 2008 Hindi thriller directed by Raj N. Sippy * ''Jimmy'' (1979 film), a 1979 Indian Malayalam film directed by Melattoor Ravi Varma * ''Jimmy'' (2013 f ...

book A Salty Piece of Land * ''Wild Cat'', in Arthur Ransome's

Swallows and Amazons ''Swallows and Amazons'' is a children's adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome and first published on 21 July 1930 by Jonathan Cape. Set in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District, the book introduces the main characters of John, S ...

stories

Peter Duck ''Peter Duck'' is the third book in the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series by Arthur Ransome. The Swallows and Amazons sail to Crab Island with Captain Flint and Peter Duck, an old sailor, to recover buried treasure. During the voyage the ''Wildcat ...

and

Missee Lee ''Missee Lee'' is the tenth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, set in 1930s China. The Swallows and Amazons are on a round-the-world trip with Captain Flint aboard the schooner ''Wild Cat''. After the ''Wil ...

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Schooners A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...

Active schooners

Historical schooners

Fictional schooners

See also

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