Schooner - Famous Schooners

Famous Schooners

• America, eponym of the America's Cup
• Bluenose, a Canadian racing and fishing vessel
• Charming Betsy, the eponym of a famous canon of statutory interpretation.
• Clotilde, the last ship to bring African slaves to the United States
• Delawana, a Canadian fishing vessel and race winner
• Effie M. Morrissey, now Ernestina, the oldest surviving Grand Banks fishing schooner
• HMS Halifax, built as Nova Scotia Packet in 1765, well documented early colonial schooner.
• USS Hannah, the first armed American naval vessel
• Hispaniola from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
• La Amistad, the site of a famous slave revolt
• Liverpool Packet, a famous Nova Scotian privateer schooner
• HMS Pickle, carried the news of Nelson's victory and death at Trafalgar back to Britain
• Pride of Baltimore, a Baltimore clipper recreation sunk in a white squall
• Rich Harvest, a 72' ferrocement staysail schooner, infamous as the "offshore off-licence".
• RYS Royalist, sailed to Borneo by James Brooke, enabling him to become 1st White Rajah of Sarawak.
• Separación Dominicana, the first armed Dominican naval vessel
• Thomas W. Lawson, the only seven-masted schooner ever built
• We're Here, from Rudyard Kipling's book, Captains Courageous
• Wyoming, the largest wooden schooner ever built
• Zaca, a wooden-hulled schooner appropriated by the US Navy for local patrol of the San Francisco area in World War II