Schooner
Description
This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
Schooner
[AS., to glide.] A vessel with two or more masts, fore and-aft rigged, or square-rigged on the fore-mast top-sail. The first schooner is said to have been built in Massachusetts in 1713.
Continue to:
My Books
