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

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