Schooner \Schoon"er\, n. [See the Note below. Cf. {Shun}.] (Naut.) Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a {topsail schooner}. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Note: The first schooner ever constructed is said to have been built in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about the year 1713, by a Captain Andrew Robinson, and to have received its name from the following trivial circumstance: When the vessel went off the stocks into the water, a bystander cried out,``O, how she scoons!'' Robinson replied, `` A scooner let her be;'' and, from that time, vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by this name. The word scoon is popularly used in some parts of New England to denote the act of making stones skip along the surface of water. The Scottish scon means the same thing. Both words are probably allied to the Icel. skunda, skynda, to make haste, hurry, AS. scunian to avoid, shun, Prov. E. scun. In the New England records, the word appears to have been originally written scooner. Babson, in his ``History of Gloucester,'' gives the following extract from a letter written in that place Sept. 25, 1721, by Dr. Moses Prince, brother of the Rev. Thomas Prince, the annalist of New England: ``This gentleman (Captain Robinson) was first contriver of schooners, and built the first of that sort about eight years since.''
Schooner \Schoon"er\, n. [D.] A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale. [U.S.]
The last, sad act in the drama has been well documented: Shelley, a non-swimmer, drowned in August 1822 after an unexpected squall hit the schooner Ariel during a return trip from a visit to Byron at Livorno.
As John unravels the terror that happened on the schooner, Rae begins her own nightmarish journey.
In 1929, a U.S. Coast Guard vessel sank a Canadian-registered schooner, the "I'm Alone," in the Gulf of Mexico.
The company also has a resort on Drummond Island in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where employees and other guests are housed in a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired lodge and entertained on the 173-foot schooner Domino Effect.
The 27-page manuscript was hand-written in pencil, apparently in 1889 while Stevenson was on the schooner "Equator" from Hawaii to Samoa, where he spent the last years of his life after leaving Scotland because of his failing health.
A shot was fired from a replica of a 19th century cannon on the starboard side, and the clipper schooner pulled away.
When the schooner America challenged in Britain for the cup that would ever after bear its name, it was required to race all the leading British yachts at once.
One evening she goes to the surface (despite her father's repeated warnings), climbs the hull of a schooner, sees the handsome Prince Eric and immediately falls in love.
"We have met the enemy and they are ours: two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop," Perry reported to his superiors.