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Schooner
A schooner (pronounced /ˈskuːnər/) 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 shorter or the same height as the rear masts. Schooners were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century, and further developed in...
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HMS Pickle
HMS Pickle was a 10-gun topsail schooner of the Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named Sting, one of several vessels Captain William Frederick Watkins of HMS Nereide seized when he captured the Dutch island of Curaçao in 1800. Lord...
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FS Belle Poule
The Belle-Poule is a French naval schooner used as a training vessel.
She was launched on 8 February 1932 at the Chantiers de Normandie at Fecamp. She is a replica of a type of fishing vessel that was used until 1935 off Iceland for catching cod....
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Rouse Simmons
The Rouse Simmons was a three-masted schooner famous for having sunk in a violent storm on Lake Michigan in 1912. The ship was bound for Chicago with a cargo of Christmas trees when it foundered off the coast of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, killing all on...
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Star of Oregon
The Star of Oregon was a schooner sailing vessel of the mid-19th century used on the west coast of North America. It was the first American sailing ship built in what is now the U.S. state of Oregon. Pioneer settlers built the ship from 1840 to 1842...
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Brigantine YANKEE
The brigantine Yankee was a steel hulled schooner, originally constructed by Nordseewerke, Emden, Germany as the Emden, renamed Duhnen, 1919. As Yankee, it became famous as the ship that was used by Irving Johnson to circumnavigate the globe four...
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HMS Chippeway
HMS Chippeway was a 2-gun schooner of the Royal Navy, launched in 1812. She was captured during the Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 and burned in December 1813 by British troops when they captured the Navy yard at Black Rock, New York (now...
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Rainbow Warrior
The Rainbow Warrior (sometimes unofficially Rainbow Warrior II) is a three-masted schooner in service with the environmental protection organization Greenpeace. She was built from the hull of the deep sea fishing ship Grampian Fame, which had been...
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USS Harrison
USS Harrison (1761) was a schooner chartered and outfitted by General George Washington during the American Revolution. She was assigned to capture British supply ships as part of Washington’s plans for the siege of Boston, Massachusetts, and to...
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HMS Cumberland
HMS Cumberland was a 29 ton schooner built in Port Jackson, and purchased in 1803 to convey Matthew Flinders to England. However the poor condition of the vessel forced him to put into French-controlled Mauritius, where he and the ship were interred...
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HMS St Lawrence
HMS St Lawrence was a 12-gun schooner of the Royal Navy. She had been built in 1808 in St. Michels, Talbot County, Maryland for Thomas Tennant and sold to Philadelphians in 1810. During the War of 1812 she was the American privateer Atlas. The...
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HMS Algerine
HMS Algerine was a Pigmy-class 10-gun schooner of the Royal Navy. She had a crew of 50 men and mounted 10 12-pounder carronades. She was ordered from the yards of John King, Upnor on 2 October 1809, laid down in November that year and launched on 3...
