* Enterprise ( 1776 ) schooner ( 20 December 1776 – February 1777 ), the second American ship to bear this name served on Chesapeake Bay during the Revolutionary War.

* 12-gun schooner / 14-gun brig ( 17 December 1799 – 9 July 1823 ), the third ship to bear this name, was built as schooner, and later rerigged as a brig.

* 10-gun schooner ( 15 December 1831 – 24 June 1844 ), the fourth ship to bear this name

* Grafton ( ship ), a schooner wrecked on the Auckland Islands in 1864

The only seven-masted schooner ever built, Thomas W. Lawson ( ship ) | Thomas W. Lawson.

* Marion ( ship ), a schooner that went missing off St. Pierre and Miquelon in 1915

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.

Schooners have a heavier rig and require more ballast than ships, which increases the wetted area and hull friction of a large schooner compared to a ship of the same size.

The result is that a ship can run down or away from a schooner of the same hull length.

In 1997, John Swain came up with blueprints for a reproduction of the American-built yacht, later Royal Navy schooner, planning the construction and home of the ship to be centered in Chestertown.

The first ship commissioned for the US military, by the US Army ( the US Navy had yet to exist ), was the armed schooner Hannah.

The ship became infamous after it sank in a storm in 1901, and the wooden nameplate of the schooner floated back to the shores of the City of Montague, where it was found in 1902.

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 partial payment for the work, he was given the ninety-ton schooner, Pato, the first ship he could call his own.

The article reported the discovery of a derelict ship in the Pacific Ocean with only one survivor-Norwegian sailor Gustaf Johansen, second mate on the schooner Emma, which sailed from Auckland, New Zealand.

A brig is “ generally built on a larger scale than the schooner, and often approaches in magnitude to the full-sized, three-masted ship .” Brigs vary in length between 75 and 165 ft ( 23 – 50 m ) with tonnages up to 480.

Another advantage is that a barque can outperform a schooner or barkentine, and is both easier to handle and better at going to windward than a full-rigged ship.

* Mexicana ( ship ), a topsail schooner built in 1791 by the Spanish Navy

* Western Union, 1939 schooner chartered by Western Union Telegraph Company, used in film as slave ship La Amistad

* Caroline ( ship ), an American schooner that disappeared in 1802

* USS Chippewa ( 1813 ), was a schooner captured in 1813 from British forces, which later burned the ship in the same year.

A ship claimed to be from France unloaded illicit tea and brandy at Aberdaron in 1767, and attempted to sell its cargo to the locals ; a Revenue cutter discovered salt being smuggled at Porth Cadlan in 1809 ; and a schooner on route from Guernsey to Scotland was reported to have offloaded lace, tea, brandy and gin at Y Rhiw in 1824.

There was shipbuilding at Porth Neigwl, where the last ship, a sloop named the Ebenezer, was built in 1841 ; and at Porthor, which came to an end with the building of a schooner, the Sarah, in 1842.

In the same year the non-profit group Sultana Projects, Inc. was formed by Swain and supporters to fund construction of the ship.

Over 10, 000 people were at the launching of the ship in March 2001, and since then more than 8, 000 students a year have boarded the Sultana for educational trips.

The Schooner Sultana website offers more detailed information on the ship.

During the course of the battle, the Ottoman Commander's ship was boarded and the Spanish tercios from 3 galleys and the Ottoman Janissaries from seven galleys fought on the deck of the Sultana.

* Sultana Disaster Records-Records relating to the explosion of the steamer " Sultana ," including lists of those aboard the ship.

Upon capturing a second ship, the Sultana, Bellamy assigned his friend Paul Williams as captain of the Mary Anne and made the Sultana his flagship.

* Sultana, the worst ship disaster in number of lives lost in North America

Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.

only one producer in a hundred is equipped to package and ship unit loads ; ;

I know as well as the next man that a ship is called from the rigging she carries, where the live wind blows, and not from the hull.

At the very moment that every attempt is being made to take management out from under the irrationality of anti-trust legislation, a drive is on to abolish collective bargaining under the guise of extending the anti-monopoly laws to unions who want no more than to continue to set wages in the same way that ship operators set freight rates.

stereo SWAO 1643 ), a saga of life on a cruise ship that is not apt to be included among Mr. Coward's more memorable works.

He paused, then added, `` Everything on a ship is a weapon.

`` The ship is huge '', said Macneff, `` but the number of military men and specialists we are taking limits the linguists to one.

As the ship moves, momentum is not conserved – the ship eventually comes to a stop again when not thrusting.

In Greek mythology, Aquarius is sometimes associated with Deucalion, the figure who built a ship with his wife Pyrrha to survive an imminent flood.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* 1945 – More than 7, 000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.

This is linked to the term to weigh anchor, meaning to lift the anchor from the sea bed, allowing the ship or boat to move.

The ship will seek a location which is sufficiently protected ; has suitable holding ground, enough depth at low tide and enough room for the boat to swing.

Kedging or warping is a technique for moving or turning a ship by using a relatively light anchor.

For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream.

* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.

; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.

* 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.