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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.
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The scow schooner Alma of San Francisco, built in 1891, restored in the 1960s, and designated a National Historic Landmark ( NHL ) in 1988, was one of the last scow schooners in operation.
* Alma ( 1891 ), a scow schooner built in 1891
* Alma, an 1891 built scow schooner.
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schooner and sailing
The voyage across the western Mediterranean, around the Iberian Peninsula by sailing schooner took about five weeks.
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts.
A two or three masted schooner is quite maneuverable and can be sailed by a smaller crew than some other sailing vessels.
“ 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.
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 off
* 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
* 1772 – The British schooner Gaspée is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
* 1899 – 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when it floundered off the coast of Devon, England, United Kingdom.
* July 21 – The SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, U. S. A., resulting in 88 deaths.
* Marion ( ship ), a schooner that went missing off St. Pierre and Miquelon in 1915
The schooner sank with all hands off Two Rivers, Wisconsin, becoming one of the most famous shipwrecks in Lake Michigan history.
* The shipwreck site of the Meridian, a schooner that sank in 1873, is located off the coast of Sister Bay.
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.
On May 2, 1822, the Massachusetts brigantine Belvidere fended off an attack by a pirate schooner in the Florida Strait.
* In April 1896 the schooner Lottie Cooper was wrecked just off Sheboygan in a gale.
* was a 14-gun schooner purchased in 1799 and wrecked later that year off Dog Island Apalachee Bay, Florida.
On 24 January, the small 364-ton Canadian schooner Perce was met and sunk by machine gun fire, after taking off her crew ( and her captain's new bride ).
Finally the crew were taken off Raroia to Tahiti by the French schooner Tamara, with the salvaged Kon-Tiki in tow.
The best-known incident of slaver interdiction is the case of the schooner La Amistad, encountered off the coast of Long Island by the USRC Washington.
Between the 5th and 18 September his brig was responsible for capturing and setting ablaze the schooner Starlight, and several whalers ( including the Ocmulgee, Ocean Rover, Alert, Weather Gauge, Altamaha, Benjamin Tucker, Courser, Virginia and Elisha Dunbar ) off the coast of Flores.
* was a 5-gun schooner launched in 1826 and wrecked off Cuba two months later.
On 6 July 1805 Lieutenant Robert Pigot of arrived off the harbour in the French privateer schooner the Matilda, which the British had captured three days earlier.
The appropriately attired King Neptune I then opened the first Seafair festival Saturday afternoon as he stepped off the schooner Gracie S. at the foot of Washington Street.
O ' Brien attempted to escape from Maria Island off Tasmania, but was betrayed by Ellis, captain of the schooner hired for the escape.
The Mi ' kmaq killed the English and let the Acadian named Anthony Casteel off at Port Toulouse, where the Mi ' kmaq sank the schooner after looting it.
On August 7, off Pensacola, Midshipman Gregory attacked and crippled the pirate schooner La Franchise.
On August 10, off Mobile, he attached and captured the pirate schooner Santa Maria.
The name of Fethard, Co Wexford, was changed to Fethard-on-Sea following a loss of life at sea when the lifeboat Helen Blake capsized in 1914 on a service mission to the schooner Mexico off the Keeragh Islands.
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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