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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.
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 ...
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 ...
20 December 1989 [ 2] Bowdoin / ˈboʊdɪn / is a historic schooner built in 1921 in East Boothbay, Maine, at the Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard. Designed by William H. Hand, Jr. under the direction of explorer Donald B. MacMillan, the gaff-rigged vessel is the only American schooner built specifically for Arctic exploration.