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schooner
schooner (Dutch schooner, German schouer, Danish skonnert, Spanish and Portuguese escaña), all possibly deriving from the Scottish verb to ‘scon’ or ‘scoon’, to skip over the water like a flat stone. The name is said to have come from a chance remark ‘there she scoons’ from a spectator at the launch of the first vessel of the type at Gloucester, Mass., in 1713. There is some evidence that the schooner did originate in North America and probably at Gloucester.
A typical schooner has a fore-and-aft rig on two or more masts. The type originally carried square topsails on the foremast, though later, with the advance in rig designs, these were changed to jib-headed or jackyard topsails. Yachts rigged as schooners generally set Bermudan sails and so have no topsails. Properly speaking, a schooner has two masts only, with the mainmast taller than the foremast, but three-masted, four-masted, and five-masted schooners have been built, and one, the Thomas W. Lawson, the largest schooner ever built, had seven. These were commercial schooners, largely used in the coasting trade and also in local fisheries on the Grand Banks, their attraction to their owners being that they required a smaller crew than a square-rigged vessel of comparable size. The last remaining wooden-hulled topsail schooner in Britain is the three-masted 30-metre (100-ft) Kathleen & May, based at Bideford, north Devon. Built in 1900 she worked as a trading schooner until the 1960s and is still sailing. See also fram. |
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"schooner." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "schooner." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-schooner.html "schooner." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-schooner.html |
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SCHOONERSCHOONER. A schooner is a sailing vessel that, in its pure form, originated at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1713–1714. It is a fore-and-aft-rigged craft, originally small (fifty to one hundred tons), with two masts, designed for coastwise trade. It developed in the 1880s and 1890s into vessels of two to three thousand tons, having four, five, and even six masts. Only one seven-master was attempted (1901–1902), the Thomas W. Lawson, which was 368 feet long and 5,200 tons. The use of schooners began to decline gradually in the mid-1800s with the advent of steam-powered vessels, but the schooner has always stood as the favorite and distinctive rig of American waters. BIBLIOGRAPHYHahn, Harold M. The Colonial Schooner, 1763–1775. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1981. MacGregor, David R. Schooners in Four Centuries. Annapolis, Md.; Naval Institute Press, 1982. William LincolnBrown/a. r. See alsoColonial Ships ; Shipbuilding ; Transportation and Travel . |
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"Schooner." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Schooner." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401803761.html "Schooner." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401803761.html |
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schooner
schooner , sailing vessel, rigged fore-and-aft, with from two to seven masts. Schooners can lie closer to the wind than square-rigged sailing ships, need a smaller crew, and are very fast. They were first constructed in colonial America and because of their speed became one of the favorite craft of the United States and Canada in the latter half of the 18th cent. and the first half of the 19th cent. Schooners were widely used in the North Atlantic fisheries and the North American coastal trade until World War I, when they were replaced by power-driven craft.
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"schooner." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "schooner." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-schooner.html "schooner." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-schooner.html |
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schoon·er
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a sailing ship with two or more masts, typically with the foremast smaller than the mainmast, and having gaff-rigged lower masts.
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a tall beer glass.
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"schooner." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "schooner." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-schooner.html "schooner." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-schooner.html |
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schooner
schooner ˈskōōnər n. a sailing ship with two or more masts, typically with the foremast smaller than the mainmast and gaff-rigged lower masts.
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"schooner." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "schooner." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-schooner.html "schooner." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-schooner.html |
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schooner small sea-going fore-and-aft-rigged vessel. XVIII (skooner, scooner). of uncert. orig.
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T. F. HOAD. "schooner." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "schooner." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-schooner.html T. F. HOAD. "schooner." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-schooner.html |
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schooner
•belladonna, Connor, donna, goner, gonna, honour (US honor), Maradona, Mashona, O'Connor, Shona, wanna
•corner, fauna, forewarner, Lorna, Morna, mourner, sauna, scorner, suborner, warner
•softener • Faulkner
•downer, uptowner
•sundowner
•Arizona, Barcelona, boner, condoner, corona, Cremona, Desdemona, donor, Fiona, groaner, Iona, Jonah, kroner, Leona, loaner, loner, moaner, Mona, owner, Pamplona, persona, postponer, Ramona, stoner, toner, Valona, Verona, Winona
•landowner • homeowner • shipowner
•coiner, joiner, purloiner
•crooner, harpooner, lacuna, lacunar, lampooner, Luna, lunar, mizuna, Oona, oppugner, Poona, pruner, puna, schooner, spooner, Tristan da Cunha, tuna, tuner, Una, vicuña, yokozuna
•honeymooner • Sunna • Brookner
•koruna
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"schooner." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "schooner." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-schooner.html "schooner." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-schooner.html |
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