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schooner and is
* 1814 – War of 1812: The American schooner USS Carolina is destroyed.
* 1772 – The British schooner Gaspée is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
Marmaris on the Turkish Riviera | Turquoise Coast of Turkey, which is famous for its Blue Cruise voyages with gulet type schooner s.
The development of the schooner is connected with that of the Bermuda sloop.
The dominant issue with a schooner is how to most effectively fill the space between the the two masts.
An equivalent Bermuda rigged schooner is less likely to have a boomed triangular sail abaft the foremast, as the shape is of insufficient area to maximise drive, and such a sail does little to prepare the wind for the mainsail.
Advantages of the staysail schooner rig are that it is easily handled and reefed by a small crew, and in lighter airs a loose-footed " fisherman " may be flown above the mainstaysail.
A gaff-rigged schooner that is not set up to carry one or more gaff topsails is sometimes termed a " bare-headed " or " bald-headed " schooner.
A schooner with no bowsprit is known as a " knockabout " schooner.
A two-masted schooner has the mainsail on the aft mast, and its other mast is the foremast.
Although the ketch ( and to a much lesser extent, the yawl ) is more popular than the schooner in Europe, the schooner is arguably more efficient.
A two or three masted schooner is quite maneuverable and can be sailed by a smaller crew than some other sailing vessels.
They are transferred to a schooner, but not before one is opened by the crew, revealing a multitude of rats.
Some sailors who have sailed on them say it is a poor-handling compromise between a barque and a ship, though having more speed than a barque or schooner.
The result is that a ship can run down or away from a schooner of the same hull length.
The ship, the schooner Sultana, is then boarded by the angry citizens, and the tea is thrown into the sea.

schooner and type
* Fredonia schooner, a type of schooner
One particularly famous Baltimore Clipper, and one of the last of the type in commercial service, was the schooner Vigilant that traded around the Danish Caribbean islands for over a century before sinking in a hurricane on September 12, 1928.

schooner and sailing
The voyage across the western Mediterranean, around the Iberian Peninsula by sailing schooner took about five weeks.
“ On a balmy day in the late summer of 1847, The Eagle, a sailing schooner northbound from Chicago, with a family of six aboard, stood off the entrance to Pere Marquette Lake.
He also developed an interest in sailing, and briefly commanded a small merchant schooner trading between Britain and Holland, which allowed him to import examples of furniture and carving from Flanders, with which he later furnished his house at Ramsgate.
The schooner sailing ship in the engraving is the USS Babcock which served in the United States Navy from 1917 – 1919, and is seen passing through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay, its port of call.
In 1868 he led the escape of 168 prisoners, seizing the schooner Rifleman and sailing back to the North Island where he began a series of raids.
Harstad is home port for the Anna Rogde, the world's oldest sailing schooner, also known as the sailing queen of Norway.
Cabin Fever consisted of a group of ten contestants chosen specially for the show, most of whom had no sailing experience ( though they had received a quick course in sailing technique prior to setting sail ), who were to be put on the 27. 4 metre ( 90 foot ), two-masted schooner with a professional crew of two.
See also the Thames sailing barge and the Norfolk wherry, two British equivalents to the scow schooner.
Its building is filled with interactive exhibits, theaters, the Reiman Family Aquarium and Wisconsin's official flagship, the Denis Sullivan, a fully functional sailing vessel modeled after a 19th-century Great Lakes schooner.
They returned to the UK in 1931 where he built his own schooner, the Mary Fortune, which he and his mother spent the next two years sailing around the British coast.
On April 15, 1848, seventy-seven slaves attempted to escape Washington D. C. by sailing away on a schooner called The Pearl.
* Adventure ( schooner ), an American sailing vessel built in 1926
U. S. Navy Lieutenant John M. Brooke, sailing on the naval schooner Fenimore Cooper, formally took possession of French Frigate Shoals for the United States on 14 January 1859, in accordance with the Guano Islands Act.
The school also owns Tabor Boy, a Dutch Pilot schooner, which is a certified school sailing vessel.
The following year saw the launching of one of the fastest and most famous sailing vessels in history, the three-masted schooner Atlantic.
Robinson subsequently returned to Saint-Paul in 1826 to gather sealskin, sailing from Hobart aboard his own vessel, the schooner Hunter.
He first arrived in Australia in January 1849 as captain of the schooner Royal Sovereign, visiting Adelaide, Circular Head and Sydney., sailing in ballast for Singapore in June.
The schooner Alma Doppel sailing off Grassy Point at Portarlington in 1997. The Port Phillip area was first significantly explored by Europeans in January 1802, when Lieutenant John Murray spent three weeks investigating the Bay entrance.
One gang member however, Slipsey Ward, was arrested and imprisoned at Auburn Prison after attempting to hijack a schooner sailing past Pike Street killing three of the six man crew before he was detained by the remaining crew members.
Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight.
* Albatross ( 1920 schooner ), a Dutch / German sailing ship that was later used as a training ship, inspiring the film White Squall

schooner and vessel
* was a five-gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1814 and 1820
According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, the first vessel called a schooner was built by builder Andrew Robinson and launched in 1713 from Gloucester, Massachusetts.
If a vessel has two masts of approximately the same height, the rig with the larger sail forward is called a ketch, while the rig with the larger sail aft is a schooner.
On July 4, 1868, Te Kooti led a dramatic prison break, and with 168 other prisoners seized the schooner Rifleman, with supplies and rifles, scuttled another vessel and set off back to the North Island.
* USS Dorchester ( SP-1509 ), a schooner in commission as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918
In April 1814, the Americans launched the corvette USS Saratoga of 26 guns and the schooner USS Ticonderoga of 14 guns ( originally a part-completed steam vessel ).
Although none of the original crew was aboard when the schooner was boarded, the vessel was escorted into New Haven, where the trial made famous by the film Amistad was held.
Another harbour tour vessel, the tern schooner Silva broke from her moorings an caused extensive damage to the Cable Wharf on the Halifax Waterfront.
Gaff rig remains the most popular rig for schooner and barquentine mainsails and other course sails, and spanker sails on a square rigged vessel are always gaff rigged.
Other natives joined in and boarded the schooner, forcing them to run their vessel into an inlet.
* Virginia ( schooner ), a wooden replica vessel launched 2005
One therefore needs to distinguish between the established armament of a vessel ( which rarely altered ) and the actual guns carried, which might happen quite frequently for a variety of reasons ; guns might be lost overboard during a storm, or " burst " in service and thus useless, or jettisoned to speed the ship during a chase, or indeed removed down into the hold in order to use the ship ( temporarily ) as a troop transport, or for a small vessel, such as the schooner, to lower the center of gravity and thus improve stability in bad weather.
* Cro ' jack or crossjack: a square yard used to spread the foot of a topsail where no course is set, e. g. on the foremast of a topsail schooner or above the driver on the mizzen mast of a ship rigged vessel.
The sixth mast of the only seven-masted vessel, the gaff schooner Thomas W. Lawson, was normally called the pusher-mast.
* Spanker: A fore-and-aft or gaff-rigged sail on the aft-most mast of a square-rigged vessel and the main fore-and-aft sail ( spanker sail ) on the aft-most mast of a ( partially ) fore-and-aft rigged vessel such as a schooner, a barquentine, and a barque.
The three-masted, fore-and-aft schooner Wawona sailed from 1897 to 1947 as a lumber carrier and fishing vessel based in Puget Sound.
* The last Irish Sea sail-using cargo vessel, and the last sail ship to trade on the Mersey, the auxiliary schooner De Wadden, ceases trading commercially.
In 1964, while Neale was in Rarotonga, June von Donop, a former accountant from Honolulu, lived alone in his house on Suwarrow for a week, while her crewmates on the schooner Europe stayed on board their vessel.
He was assigned to special service on a vessel named Hunter ( apparently not part of the U. S. Navy ) during the mid-1840s, then was off Africa and in the Mediterranean as an officer of the frigate United States and as commanding officer of the schooner.

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