How To Use Schooner In A Sentence

She was a pretty vessel: schooner-rigged, very low in the water, and -- as we found out when we took her -- of very deep draught; broad in the beam, and ` flush-decked 'fore and aft, with no raised fore or after castles. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
In 1881, the schooner Ellen Austin, bound for London, discovered a derelict adrift in the Sargasso.
Tom was the only man who dared run the bar in the dark, and that last time, between nightfall and the dawn, with a southeaster breezing up, he had sailed his schooner in and out again. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
These Schooners along with several other larger four masted Schooners and Barkentines would help pioneer the lucrative sugar trade from Hawaii to Californias C&H refiners near San Francisco.
Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder. THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN

Drawing near the schooner, a crew was dispatched overside in the longboat with a squad of marines.
As the chain roared and surged through the hawse-pipe he noticed a number of native women, lusciously large as only those of Polynesia are, in flowing ahu's, flower-crowned, stream out on the deck of the schooner on the beach. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
The month in which my seventeenth birthday arrived I signed on before the mast on the Sophie Sutherland, a three-topmast schooner bound on a seven-months 'seal-hunting cruise to the coast of Japan. That Dead Men Rise Up Never
With the aid of a single soldier, by patching together all the three, after eighteen days, he constructed a boat, forty feet in length, and six in breadth, which he termed the schooner Joliba. Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
The schooner shown her with all sails set, with the exception of the staysails between the masts.
We'll be back in half an hour," called the commodore, as they rowed away from the schooner. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
They were all that were left of Pauloo, which likewise was in ashes, for a third schooner had come in through the Pauloo Passage. YAH! YAH! YAH!
By good fortune Hunter pulled a good oar. We made the water fly; and the boat was soon alongside, and I aboard the schooner.
Unfortunately we, the English, will never be the people to teach her; because she is a chartered libertine allowed to say and do anything she likes, from demanding the head of the empress in an editorial waste-basket, to chevying Canadian schooners up and down the Alaska Seas. American Notes
He'd two schooners fishin 'the Labrador in the season, a share in a hundred-ton banker, stock in a south coast whale-factory, God knows how much yellow gold in the bank, an' a round interest in the swiler _Royal Bloodhound_, which he skippered t 'the ice every spring o' the year. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
Such information did he gather, over many bottles of beer, that the next afternoon, hiring a small launch at a cost of ten shillings, he journeyed up the harbour to Jackson Bay, where lay the lofty - poled, sweet-lined, three-topmast American schooner, the Mary CHAPTER IX
For reasons I shall not mention, by paths of descent I shall not describe, in the crown of my manhood and the prime of my devilishness in which Oxford renegades and racing younger sons had nothing on me, I found myself master and owner of a schooner so well known that she shall remain historically nameless. THE PRINCESS
Broad of beam, heavily sparred, with high freeboard and bluff, Dutchy bow, the Uncle Toby was the slowest, tubbiest, safest, and most fool-proof schooner David Grief possessed. A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
But what gratified him most of all, I think, was the fact that before we had been aboard two days I had got Simpson, the sailmaker, at work upon an enormous jack-yard gaff-topsail for use in light winds, the only gaff-topsail that the schooner had hitherto possessed being a trumpery little jib-headed affair which she could carry in quite a strong breeze. Turned Adrift
By the time I was sixteen I was sailing in scow-schooners, fishing salmon with the Greeks up the Sacramento River, and serving as sailor on the Fish Patrol. SMALL-BOAT SAILING
Far from being an isolated port, one early nineteenth-century view of Monterey harbor shows a Russian brig, a Yankee schooner, and another ship at anchor.
The privateer was a schooner, called the Eagle, commanded by Captain Potter. American Prisoners of the Revolution
The schooner was called Le Carcajou—the Wolverine—and her figurehead was a carving of the beast, mouth agape and fangs bared, claws ready to strike. City of Glory
The glimmering vessel was a great schooner, with multiple masts on top and impressive quarters inside.
The captain of a bay schooner is supposed to work with his hands just as well as the men. Charley's Coup
We passed a ship, two schooners, and a four-masted barkentine under the smallest of canvas, and at eleven o'clock, running up the spanker and jib, we hove her to, and in another hour we were beating back again against the aftersea under full sail to regain the sealing ground away to the westward. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
Taking advantage of the prolific Bermuda Cedar, they set to work to design and build the Bermuda sloops and schooners that became internationally famous.
When the tide rose, the sea wanderers kedged the schooner to deep water, and then came among us. An Odyssey of the North
The visit of the barques, brigantines and schooners also seemed to drive off some of the tourism malaise created by a July shrouded in fog, damp and rain.
The visit of the barques, brigantines and schooners also seemed to drive off some of the tourism malaise created by a July shrouded in fog, damp and rain.
Things came to such a pass that, it was necessary to send by schooner, outside the monsoon season, the licentiate Ruy Machado who came from the kingdom this year, and who had been appointed to that auditorship; his adjutant was Ynacio Nuñez de Mancelos, the captain of the said vessel. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
The patrol connects at Fort Ross with a motor schooner from the Western Arctic and with the exchange of passengers, mail and freight, an all Canadian Northwest Passage is completed. The Eastern Arctic Patrol
It was no great full-riggd ship, nor majestic steamer, steering firmly through the gale, but seemd one of those superb little schooner yachts I had often seen lying anchord, rocking so jauntily, in the waters around New York, or up Long Island soundnow flying uncontrolld with torn sails and broken spars through the wild sleet and winds and waves of the night. Edgar Poe’s Significance. Specimen Days
She has, of course, in the maritime provinces the descendants of one of the finest races of seamen the world has ever known; and I saw last fall in the race between the two famous schooners "Blue Nose" and "Haligonian" that their traditions have not been lost. Naval Defence
Barrier Reef; made several attempts to get the schooner off, got the bower anchors out astern, but in spite of all our efforts the vessel forged further on the reef, and bilged. Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
Small sloops and schooners were particularly vulnerable to the attentions of privateers.
These Schooners along with several other larger four masted Schooners and Barkentines would help pioneer the lucrative sugar trade from Hawaii to Californias C&H refiners near San Francisco.
Docked closer inshore on the pier was a two-masted, black-hulled schooner with a single side-wheel and a thin runnel. The Order War
Our beer comes in stubbies or schooners and goes into our esky which goes into our car.
The majority of vessels were sloops and schooners of 50-100 tons, ideal for working cargoes from the shallow and confined havens of north Northumberland.
There were a couple of schooners used in the china-clay trade lying at the quayside; at anchor was a barquentine, a big bluff-bellied tramp of a creature, black with coaldust, and beyond her again what was still a rare sight in those parts -- a steamer. Secret Bread
Meanwhile the captain and engineer of the launch had passed an unpleasant time; they had stayed aboard till the rolling of the boat drove them to the larger yacht; but seeing the schooner break her two chains and drift on to the reef, they became frightened and went ashore in the dinghey, and home along the beach. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific
My idylls of a perfect schooner to take me to a tropical paradise would begin with a banana boat, and a fresh banana plucked from a bunch taken off my lanai and sliced in half.
And if that threatened squall should burst its bonds and come shrieking and howling in fury across the surface of the sea, scourging it into a mad turmoil of foaming, leaping water and blinding spindrift, while the burnt-out crew of the schooner were making their passage across to the _Mercury_, it might be very bad for them; for even should they be fortunate enough to avoid capsizal, it might be exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible, for the ship, smitten and bowed down by the might of the tempest, to pause and pick them up. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
In our impatience to land, I and my friend left the schooner in a cockleshell of a boat, which upset in the surge, and we found ourselves floundering in the water. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
For an endless period, as it seemed to me, I lay with my head on the thwart watching the schooner (she was a little ship, schooner-rigged fore and aft) come up out of the sea. The Island of Doctor Moreau
It carried passengers in new stagecoaches and freight from the mines using twelve-mule teams and prairie schooners pulled by sixteen oxen plus six spare animals.
These brownstone schooners, or brownstoners, were shallow draft vessels that were towed by steamboat down the river to Long Island Sound where they set sail.
Lighter vessels ranged upward from the cutter, a single-masted schooner with as little as one cannon on the open deck, or nothing but swivel guns mounted on her railings.
It was an old spring-wagon, with a round canvas top on it like the cover of a prairie schooner.
In 1876 he loaded the schooner City of Manitowoc with pine deals in Manistee, Michigan and took them through the St. Lawrence River and across the ocean.
The soldiers filling into the rowboats and low schooners looked out toward the stone dock and saw George Washington standing in his navy blue uniform supervising the last boats.
She was a small fast and shallow draft centerboard schooner and her rig except for foretopmasts and yankee was identical to the Shrewsbury Packets.
A heavy surf thundered and burst over an outjutting rock; lowering storm-clouds covered the sky; and, outside the line of surf, a pilot-schooner, close-hauled, heeled over till every detail of her deck was visible, was surging along against a stormy sunset sky. Chapter 1
As the schooner went into the wind and backed her jib and staysail the whaleboat was swung out. A SON OF THE SUN
Forget all the sailing ships, the sloops, brigs, schooners and luggers lost here, and concentrate on the steamships.
During this time, they have launched hundreds of boats ranging from 20-foot steam launches to 40-foot schooners.
Dolphin pulled past them and assaulted the outside schooner, her guns taking out the mainmast.
There was a schooner for both of us if I had missed!
There were three craft, all of different rig — a schooner, a ketch, and the said bilander. Mary Anerley
Two masts, schooner-rigged, thirty meters long at the waterline. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
The poacher is the sealing schooner Mary Thomas, hunting the seal pack along the coast of Japan and north of the Bering Sea, running into a heavy fog, and unwittingly crossing the line "where the Russian bear kept guard" with 1,500 seal skins in salt piles in the hold. “The way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know. . .”
Smyrna fund; then, saluted by the gesticulative, silent applause of St. - Ange and the schooner-men, he resumed his first attitude behind his roaring master. Short Stories for English Courses
The schooners make three trips to the banks of Newfoundland in a season; the first, or spring cargo, are large, thick fish, which, after being properly salted and dried, are kept alternately above and under ground, till they become so mellow as to be denominated _dumb fish_. Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic.
The maritime industries in all their variety, from building five-masted schooners to rowboats and all the related supporting trades, are represented.
Her foremast carried square sails; her main and mizzen masts were schooner-rigged. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
As the chain roared and surged through the hawse-pipe he noticed a number of native women, lusciously large as only those of Polynesia are, in flowing ahu's, flower-crowned, stream out on the deck of the schooner on the beach. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
I get 'captained' almost enough aboard the schooner and up to Boston. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod
A fleet of small steamers, schooners and junks, carries on trade with the towns and districts on the east and west coasts of the Gulf of Siam. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Until World War II, the America's Cup was sailed in enormous schooners and sloops, often more than 100 feet long, with dozens of crew and clouds of sail.
And so he balanced his gear in his schooner and hoisted the bright blue lateen sail. THE BROKEN GOD
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Benjamin Mendlowitz Two schooners sailing close-hauled through the rough September seas of Vineyard Sound off Massachusetts — the photograph above is a timeless evocation of American boating. Photo-Op: Rough Seas
More than a dozen stately wooden tall ship schooners call the harbors of mid-coast Maine home and lovingly carry on the tradition of sailing where the winds and tides demand. Wicked Good Travel Tips: Cast Your Cares To The Wind On a Maine Windjammer Cruise
It was a wooden figurehead carved in the shape of an embowed, cheerfully grinning dolphin—worn, wormholed, its paint flaking with age; the original figurehead of the schooner Enterprise, that Stephen Decatur sailed against the Barbary pirates at Tripoli, four hundred years before. THE WOUNDED SKY
The majority of vessels were sloops and schooners of 50-100 tons, ideal for working cargoes from the shallow and confined havens of north Northumberland.
At that time, oil was filled in steel drums and taken by locomotives to the end of the jetty before being loaded on sloops and schooners.
Next to the schooner is a brig used in foreign trade.
To be sure, it's no sort of a place for a squeamish person, aboard a loaded schooner whose mudhook clutches bottom while the sea flings her about, but the masters and crews of coal-luggers are not squeamish. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
Samantha watched him go inside and shut it behind him; a flash of lightning illuminated the beach roses and the bayberry bushes, and the old overturned schooner in front of Ray's work shed.
Turning, he could see the mast of the schooner held by the tackle.
Typically, 12 to 20 rounds were needed to destroy a caique or schooner.
Vessels built of ferrocement may be accepted if they have a gaff or traditional schooner rig.
We now had nearly two hundred prisoners on board, and thought it prudent to retrace our steps to Port Royal, when on the following morning we fell in with two more schooner-rigged privateers. A Sailor of King George
I believe he's under doctors orders to rest with a schooner/stubbie or two - still watching the cricket of course - but never fear, he'll be back at the crease tomorrow. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
What I find so interesting is that all the ships Hind, Rolph had built, whether four masted Schooners of four masted Barkentines, they were all nearly identical.
The fine, three-topmast schooner Ariel, on a cruise around the world, had already been out a year from San Francisco when Jerry boarded her. CHAPTER XXI
Oliver Shortsleeves became sadly twisted up after hearing those immediately before him spell in succession "schooner, tetrarch, pibroch and anarchy" and tried to spell "architrave" with so many letters that he would have needed no more to have spelled it twice over. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
With that he placidly resumed his walk, and was soon seated in the stern-sheets of a whaleboat manned by uproarious Kanakas, himself daintily perched out of the way of the least maculation, giving his commands in an unobtrusive, dinner-table tone of voice, and sweeping neatly enough alongside the schooner. The Wrecker
Forget all the sailing ships, the sloops, brigs, schooners and luggers lost here, and concentrate on the steamships.
Having no offer of beds, I returned to the schooner, and we pigged it out in the least miserable way we could.
He referred to drinking establishments as “boozeries,” “doggeries,” “rumholes,” and “schooners.” Middlesex
January I signed before the shipping commissioner the articles of the Sophie Sutherland, a three topmast sealing schooner bound on a voyage to the coast of Japan. Chapter 15
Some types such as barkentines and brigantines were introduced in the early 1800s, but were replaced by schooners, which could sail across the wind.
On the afternoon of the third day he picked up a schooner, dismasted and battered. Chris Farrington, Able Seaman
In July 1798, Stephen Decatur, on the sloop Delaware, captured the French schooner Croyable off New Jersey.
I would propose rather to fit out a small merchantman, a xebeque or schooner, and to man her with men-of-war's men. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman
We passed a ship, two schooners, and a four-masted barkentine under the smallest of canvas, and at eleven o'clock, running up the spanker and jib, we hove her to, and in another hour we were beating back again against the aftersea under full sail to regain the sealing ground away to the westward. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
The "Sophie" Sutherland, a newly-built, three-masted, full-rigged schooner, out of San Francisco, is hunting seals along the Japanese coast north to the Bering Sea and Chris Farrington and a Swedish boat-puller named Emil Johansen, argue over protocol. “Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”
A large part of the very great strength of DeLillo's work is the fact that beneath the martini chill of the writing's surface there is the lather and fizz of a schooner of old-style New York beer.
The slave ships, on the other hand, “were generally small handy craft; fast, of course; usually schooner-rigged, and carrying flying topsails.” Hanging Captain Gordon
Lighter vessels ranged upward from the cutter, a single-masted schooner with as little as one cannon on the open deck, or nothing but swivel guns mounted on her railings.
While this was being done, the boat plied back and forth between the two vessels, passing a heavy hawser, which was made fast to the great towing-bitts on the schooner's forecastle-head. The Lost Poacher
The schooners sailed up and down the lagoon, harrying and destroying. MAUKI
Some of the larger craft built in the Civil War era were fitted out as barkentines, with square sails forward and schooner-rigged main and mizzen masts. ...
In addition to revealing the lives of black schooner and lightermen, Cecelski discusses canal building, bateaux boating, rafting, levee work, and various kinds of fishing.
The mate of the schooner was a cannie Scot; by name, Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
Then, one day, the fog lifted on the edge of a heavy wind, and there jammed down upon us a schooner, with close in her wake the cloudy funnels of a Russian man-of-war. An Odyssey of the North
She carries the traditional Great Lakes fore-and-aft schooner rig with its distinctive triangular ‘raffee’ sail on a foremast yardarm.
Puleston's book itself goes on to relate his adventures which, after he lost the yawl, included joining Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock in the schooner Direction on their famous trip through the South Pacific.
Painted on it was a red demon holding a schooner of beer.
In fact, she was a full-rigged, three-topmast schooner, newly built. Chris Farrington, Able Seaman
The outermost one, called the flyaway, was being furled, though the sailor stretched out upon the stay beneath the bowsprit was drenched by each downward plunge of the schooner's bow. Ralph Granger's Fortunes
The slavers were generally small, handy craft; fast, of course; usually schooner-rigged, and carrying flying topsails and forecourse. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
A sailor, in the main rigging, carried away a ratline in both hands, fell head-downward, and was clutched by an ankle and saved head-downward by a comrade, as the schooner cracked and shuddered, uplifted on the port side, and was flung down on her starboard side till the ocean poured level over her rail. CHAPTER XV
He took a slurp from his schooner and dug his fork into a chunk of fish.
If you want to talk to me some more about this, then I'm happy to do it over a beer, for it is the Australian way to solve the problems of the world over a schooner in the pub.
He received a fitting farewell in front of his home crowd before enjoying a celebratory schooner in the family pub in Sydney's inner-west.
Shipbuilding to a limited extent goes on; sloops and schooners of from 40 to 70 tons register are built from native woods, mahogany, cedar, calabash, cashaw, etc., and sold in Cuba. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
We stood at the public bar and demanded schooners, copping the jeers, sexual jibes and gropes of the regulars.
A heavy surf thundered and burst over an outjutting rock; lowering storm-clouds covered the sky; and, outside the line of surf, a pilot-schooner, close-hauled, heeled over till every detail of her deck was visible, was surging along against a stormy sunset sky. Chapter 1
The schooner, swept by three big seas, creaked and groaned and quivered, and from the weight of water on her decks behaved logily. THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
By 1920 about 95 percent of all halibut fishermen and an even higher percentage of the owners of halibut schooners were of Norwegian birth or descent.
This was why he sat at the beer table with Captain Jorgensen, who was just returned with a schooner-load of hay from the Petaluma Flats. CHAPTER XVII
But I found out that the vessel was not exactly a ship after all, but a sort of half schooner, half brig, -- what they call a brigantine, having two masts, a mainmast and a foremast. Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner
Bloodgood, who led the way through the channel in his schooner, the _Packet_, a Carolina pitch and cotton droger of forty tons register, which was manned solely by the captain and his two sons, one twelve and the other ten years old. Voyage of the Liberdade
Through many old photographs and stirring true stories, an appreciation for the schooners, barkentines and other wind vessels and their crew is constructed.
Drawing near the schooner, a crew was dispatched overside in the longboat with a squad of marines.
I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
While this was being done, the boat plied back and forth between the two vessels, passing a heavy hawser, which was made fast to the great towing-bitts on the schooner's forecastle-head. The Lost Poacher
Some types such as barkentines and brigantines were introduced in the early 1800s, but were replaced by schooners, which could sail across the wind.
His poems have appeared or are soon forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, Zyzzyva, PN Review (UK), The Southern Review, and elsewhere. John Struloeff reads “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake
The popular annual corn-on-the-cob day was played last Thursday in 40 degree heat and I reckon everyone who finished should have received a free schooner.
It angled steeply downward, for the schooner's deck was much lower than the edge of the wharf, but heavy cross battens promised plenty of traction for those who had to use it.
With clenched teeth sat the boat-steerer, grasping the steering oar firmly with both hands, his restless eyes on the alert -- a glance at the schooner ahead, as we rose on a sea, another at the mainsheet, and then one astern where the dark ripple of the wind on the water told him of a coming puff or a large white-cap that threatened to overwhelm us. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
But I was not going to permit that if I could help it, and it soon became perfectly clear that we could, the schooner having the heels of the ship, although we were soon under the lee of the latter, with her sails partially becalming ours. A Pirate of the Caribbees
The 100-year-old schooner is the floating home to the scientists and artists of the Cape Farewell project as we move down the west coast of Spitsbergen on our three-week venture. Beth Kapusta: DJ Spooky at Monaco Glacier
I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
They were big "ironstone" bowls the size of beer schooners, such as we used to see pictured at "Schmiddy's Place," with the legend, "Largest In The City, 5c. The Iron Puddler
Clark had in mind an enormous gaff-rigged schooner, which he'd name Athena. Mine’s Bigger Than Yours
As a side note, plans for a ship believed to be the schooner Enterprise were recently found in Venice.
At evening the schooner doubled the Skaw at the northern point of Denmark, in the night passed the Skager Rack, skirted Norway by Journey to the Interior of the Earth
In the meanwhile the schooner lay to with backed forestaysail, tumbling wildly on a dim, grey sea. Hawtrey's Deputy
Within a few years he was commanding a schooner with success, and in 1782 he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in command of the brig Endeavour, before being promoted to Commander in 1800.
Another hour and the schooner's name can be deciphered quite easily -- _L'Inconstant_, and that of the polacca _Le Saint-Esprit_. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
What I find so interesting is that all the ships Hind, Rolph had built, whether four masted Schooners of four masted Barkentines, they were all nearly identical.
On a drafting table against one wall lay a pile of ships' blueprints: cross-sectioned schooners, submarines, slave galleys.
I want that schooner mast patched and sail rigged as soon as possible.
Ice cakes left over from the big freeze began surfing down the face of the waves and shattering against the schooner 's bow. AMAGANSETT
It turns out that the schooner is Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter. Dracula
Also, we landlubbers called the Clearwater a schooner; it is a sloop.
I shall do to-morrow, the first thing — run out a light anchor and kedge the schooner off the beach. Chapter 35
Marking the twentieth anniversary of the original Pride of Baltimore to Baltimore West Cork, the topsail schooner, Pride of Baltimore 2 from Baltimore, Maryland, made an official visit to Baltimore, Ireland from 24th to 28th August.
And so he balanced his gear in his schooner and hoisted the bright blue lateen sail. THE BROKEN GOD
The schooner is "in the water in working condition" but still needs repairs, said the group's intern, David T. McCourt, who recently returned from El Salvador, where the boat is docked awaiting repairs. Pearl Coalition aims to tell story of slave revolt, schooner's impact
I am overcome by a mixture of terror, elation, anxiety and giggles, yet of all the days I have felt like a schooner of rum and coke and a cigarette with a double strength macchiato chaser, I have vowed not to compromise your living quarters.
The wind choppedabout and blew directly toward the shore, and the schooner had to claw off.
The California is represented on the marine railways next to a schooner, and both vessels are receiving fresh coats of paint by workmen.
A British schooner docked in Penzance yesterday carrying 30,000 bottles of wine on a voyage that enthusiasts believe will herald a return to wind power in merchant shipping. Tall ships make a comeback as oil price hits exports « Isegoria
I'm going up river with him to get a schooner for oystering. Chapter 8
The awful volume of sound given out by the fierce, headlong swoop of the wind as it bore down upon us quite prepared me to see both masts blown clean out of the schooner; but all her gear fortunately happened to be sound and good, and the loss of the foresail was the full extent of the damage sustained by us. The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast
He took a slurp from his schooner and dug his fork into a chunk of fish.
Some of the larger craft built in the Civil War era were fitted out as barkentines, with square sails forward and schooner-rigged main and mizzen masts. ...
It will be ship ahoy for the brave mum-of-two Marie next Tuesday as she takes up the Cabin Fever challenge on board a 90 ft Schooner ship.
Even as he spoke, they heard the rumble of chain through hawse-pipe, and from the veranda saw a big black-painted schooner, swinging to her just-caught anchor. Chapter 14
I was sailing in scow-schooners, fishing salmon with the Greeks up the The Joy Of Small-Boat Sailing
I picked up the trophy with 28 points, and I certainly enjoyed the schooner!
Fisher, but now razeed and called The Schooner Farralone. Vailima Letters
Unfortunately we, the English, will never be the people to teach her; because she is a chartered libertine allowed to say and do anything she likes, from demanding the head of the empress in an editorial waste-basket, to chevying Canadian schooners up and down the Alaska American Notes
The crew hopes that in 2005, the 140 ft schooner will become the first single-hulled yacht, or monohull, to cover the distance in less than 80 days.
By mid-afternoon, in a huge sea, with the wind after its last shift no more than a stiff breeze, the Tongan bosun sighted a schooner bottom up. A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
With an obscene wallowing, sucking sound, the schooner's bows tore free of the soft sand, and she shot sternwards into the lagoon. The Gates of Noon
He looked rather glum, however, half an hour afterwards, when the same voice bawled that she was a bull-dog looking craft, schooner-rigged, and pierced for sixteen guns. Willis the Pilot
After innumerable voyages aboard men-of-war and merchantmen, fishing-schooners and chebacco-boats, the old salt had become master of a hand-cart, which he daily trundled about the vicinity, and sometimes blew his fish-horn through the streets of Twice Told Tales
After innumerable voyages aboard men-of-war and merchant-men, fishing-schooners and chebacco-boats, the old salt had become master of a handcart, which he daily trundled about the vicinity, and sometimes blew his fish-horn through the streets of The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales")
Not a few of the great ones of our own day commenced their career behind the apple-shaped bows of a Saltcoats coaler, whether it was a handy brigantine or a trig schooner is no matter.
An islander who manages to climb aboard Grief's schooner reports that Narii Herring of the Nuhiva, "an English Jew half-caste .... the nerviest and most conscienceless scoundrel in the Paumotus," tried to steal Parlay's pearls and that Parlay is up in a tree, Herring in another. “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
In fairness to ourselves, however, it must be said that during part of that time there were only four of us engaged upon the work, Cunningham being busy upon calculations of stability, the relative positions of the centre of gravity and the metacentre of the new schooner, and I know not what beside, in connection with the determination of the amount of ballast that would be needed, the position of the masts, and the area and proportions of the several sails -- for now that the engineer was fairly mounted upon his new hobby there was no possibility of dragging him out of the saddle. Turned Adrift
I am in the musty storage bow of a sailless schooner on the murky waters of the river Styx.
My room was on the landward side of Chapuis, so in any case I could not have watched the schooner depart.
He gunned his engine, and bullied the schooner through, scraping bottom.
Acclaimed naval artist Tony Gibbons illustrates every type of sailing warship from ships of the line, frigates, and sloops to privateers’ schooners, bomb ketches, and xebecs.
A lone sailboat, a single schooner, a solitary steamship might not have much impact in an eclectic gallery.
Which I am now past forty, Custodian, and not one penny the worse that I can see; as amusable as ever; to be on board ship is reward enough for me; give me the wages of going on — in a schooner! Vailima Letters
Through many old photographs and stirring true stories, an appreciation for the schooners, barkentines and other wind vessels and their crew is constructed.
On relanding they lined up on the shore of the lagoon, evidently determined to fight to the finish if the British cruiser sent a party ashore, but the dueling cruiser had disappeared, and at 6 P.M. the German raiders embarked on the old schooner Ayessa, which belongs to Mr. Ross, the "uncrowned king" of the islands. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915
Again wheeling, this time at no more than two hundred yards, the whale charged back, not completing her semi-circle sufficiently, so that she bore down upon the schooner's bow from starboard. CHAPTER XV
My stomach got worse when the schooner was becalmed.
Well, "-- she shrugged her shoulders --" the schooner is at the bottom of the sea. Chapter 13
The negro steward who killed three of the prize privateer crew put on board the schooner Waring is on exhibition at Barnum's Museum, New The Civil War in America
Native trading schooners lined the quays, and the fragrance of cocoa beans drying in the sun made us remember that Grenada is the ‘Isle of Spice’.
But when he attempted the passage, he was caught by a light gale and driven back to Santa Anna, where the trader clapped him in irons and held him against the return of the schooner from Santa Cruz. MAUKI
Most have done more physical damage to themselves in endless schooners.
She was a powerful schooner-rigged vessel of three hundred tons, as strong as wood and iron could make her; she was handled by a sailing-master who thoroughly understood his work, and she behaved nobly. Armadale
My captains made faster runs than ever and earned bigger bonuses, as did my supercargoes, who saw to it that my schooners did not loaf and dawdle along the way. THE PRINCESS
This was followed by a sudden eruption of angry male voices, what sounded like the phone being dropped into a schooner of beer, and then a disconnection.
In 1839, the seeds of the civil rights earthquake that would rock the United States were sprinkled on a Spanish schooner named La Amistad.
The schooner had a free wind, and was substantially running before it.
And meanwhile, in the waist up to his knees in water -- so low the schooner lay -- the captain was hacking at the foresheet with a pocket knife. The Ebb-Tide
Trailing the Atalanta is the 140-foot, 330-ton Mohawk, then the largest schooner in the New York Yacht Club fleet. Water Color Water Color

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