schooner
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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
Or I would be after the schooner Shearwater came home and I’d shared with my brother the treasure that our mother, and then I, had found.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
Vocabulary lists containing schooner
The Cay
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Treasure Island
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