schooner

Behind them is the Bel Espoir, a schooner vessel on which the youths -- whether from Libya and Egypt or France and Bosnia -- have been sailing the Mediterranean to promote peace.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

Lake Superior’s first known commercial casualty, in 1816, was a schooner with a name that suggests hubris: the Invincible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

The show is set on board the American Pride tall ship docked at Long Beach’s Pine Avenue Pier, a 130-foot schooner that today is primarily used as an education-focused vessel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025

As captain and first mate, they say piloting their 75-foot schooner has only strengthened their brotherly bond, with their small expedition team serving as an adoptive family.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024

On April 15, 1848, seventy-seven enslaved people attempted to escape Washington by sailing on a schooner called The Pearl.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

This commercial harvest of Bristol Bay sockeye began back in the 1880s when schooners started to catch and salt the salmon.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

Time Out credited the "inexpensive Neapolitan pizzas and beer schooners" at Paesano as one of the highlights on the road.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2022

Small, shallow-draft scows then took the stones to much bigger schooners or sloops, anchored in deeper water, for the trip up the Potomac.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021

The ship is a far cry from the old banana boats, steamships and schooners that crowded New York Harbor, like the one that reached the pier in August 1897, its decks “slimy with bananas.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2017

I looked at his hands and feet The skin was alligatored and cracked, tough from age and walking barefoot on the hot decks of schooners and freighters.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor