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A new American schooner was designed and built in 1929–1930 to defeat Bluenose, Gertrude L. Thebaud. [26] She was the last schooner of her type constructed for the fishing fleet in Gloucester. [27] In 1930 off Gloucester, Massachusetts, Bluenose was defeated 2–0 in the inaugural Sir Thomas Lipton International Fishing Challenge Cup. [28]
A schooner that wrecked while being towed across the bar at Tampico. USS Palomas United States Navy: 25 May 1969 A schooner that ran aground on Sacramento Reef, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) off the coast of Baja California. HMCS Restigouche Royal Canadian Navy: 2001 A Restigouche-class destroyer that was sunk as an artificial reef off Acapulco. USS Scuffle
Fictional schooners. Dragon, in Iain Lawrence's The Smugglers and The Buccaneers, The High Seas Trilogy. Ebba, Ker Karraje's pirate schooner in Jules Verne 's Facing the Flag. Ghost, seal-hunting schooner in Jack London 's The Sea-Wolf. Hispaniola, a schooner in Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island.
Dixie, privateer schooner, captured on April 15, 1862, but had itself captured the USA Schooner Mary Alice on July 25, 1861, the USA Barque Glenn on July 31 of 1861. Dove, 8-gun, 1,170-ton privateer steamer [52] Gallatin, 150-ton privateer schooner with 2 × 12-pdr [52] General N.S. Reneau, privateer steamer [52] Gibralter, privateer schooner
SS Ryndam (1950) 1950. Atlas (1972–1988) Pride of Mississippi (1988–1991) Pride of Galveston (1991–2003) Sank in 2003 off of the Dominican Republic, whilst on the way to the scrapyard at Alang, India. SS Ryndam in 1951. Atlas arriving in Miami, 1974. SS Rhynland.
Henry Morgan was knighted in 1674 and became lieutenant-governor of Jamaica. In the late 1670s there was a succession of raids on Spanish ports. In 1680 a party made its way across the Isthmus of Panama and, sailing in captured Spanish ships, pillaged the coasts and commerce of the Pacific. They had not been long on their journey when the Anglo ...
The Department of Homeland Security is trying to stop the illegal flow of high-powered guns from the U.S. to Haiti, as the Caribbean nation reels from violence and instability wrought by armed ...
The Havre Union transatlantic packet line was organized in the 1830s from the merger of the Havre Old Line and the Havre Whitlock Line. While the two lines remained independent business entities, they coordinated their sailing schedule and acted as a single line. In the shipping industry, the term packet ship was used to describe a vessel that ...