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A
A. V. Conrad, 52
Aar, ex Patricia A., 138, 141
Aberdeen & London Steam Navigation Co, 49
Aberdeen bow, 18, 51
Abraham, 100
Abranson, Erik, 141
Ackers, George H., 87, 89
Adams (1889), 125, 130
Adams (1929), 60
Addie M. Lawrence, 115
Admiral, 105
Aello II, 88
Agnes, 83
Alert (1802), 33
Alert (1885), 12
Alice M. Lawrence, 115
Alma, 51
Alma Doepe, 120, 141
America, 86, 88-89
America: coasting trade, 53-54, 103, 105; naval schooners, 27, 31
Americana, 85
Almirante Satdanha, 133
HMS Amphion, 35
Amy Stockdale, 43
Anderson, Lindsay, 48
Andy Mahony, 105
Angelita, 78
Anna Madre, 98
Annsbro', 79
Anonyma, 46
Aquila Marina, 141
Argus, 129-130
Arken, ex Roscovite, 100
Armament, 32, 41, 48
Armour, Dr. C. A., 37, 127
Artists: Adam Willaerts, 13; Adml Phillip Brown, 26; Capt M. Reilly, 49; Charles Shlei, 39;
Edward Gwyn, 36; F. Albinus, 42; G. Groenewegen, 93; Hartgers, 13; J. F. W. Des
Barres, 37; J. Lynn, 26; John Clevely, 22; Kips, 22; Paul Revere, 17; R. H. Nibbs, 122;
Rool, 13; Samuel Owen, 23; Simon de Vlieger, 14; T. W. Ward, 45; Van de Veldejnr,
14-15; William Burgis, 16
Ashburner Bros, 81
Audax, 48
HMS Augusta, 35
Australian schooners, 118-120
Auxiliary engines, 83, 88-89, 100-101, 111, 115, 129
B
B. R. Tower, 61
Baker, W. A., 13
Baker Palmer, 102
Balley, James, 51
Baltick, 21
Baltimore clippers, 25, 27-29, 140
Ballantyne, R. M., quoted 10-11
Barling, I. T., 90
Barrow flat, 75
Bel Espoir, ex Prince Louis II, ex Peder Most, ex Nette S., 137
Belfast, Lord, 49
Bermuda schooners, 26, 37
Bessie, 78
Beulah, 58
Biddlecombe, George, 68
Bill the Butcher, 57
Billy boys, 33, 75
Bird, Ralph, 76
Blakeley, 114
Blanckley, Thomas, 13
Block Island boats, 15
Blue Jacket, 72
Bluenose, 123, 127
Bowker, Capt. "Biff", 135
Bowring, C. T., & Co, 82
Brilliant (c. 1837), 87, 89
Brilliant (1932), 135
Britannia, 87
Brockbank, John, 37
Brocklebank, Daniel, 22, 34
Brooklands, ex Susan Vittery, 51
Burgess, Edward, 127
C
C. & F. Nurse, 74
Cambria, 88
Captain Scott, 136
Carrie E. Phillips, 127
Casco, 128
Centreboards, 53-54, 79, 106, 108-109, 120
Challenge, 29
HMS Chaleur, 21
Chapelle, Howard I., 21, 25, 31; on big wooden hulls, 109; on Marian F. Sprague, 56-57; plans of
terns, 60; reconstructs plans, 19
Chapman, Frederik af, 19
Charles & Ellen, 85
Chebacco boats, 22-23, 126
Chesapeake Bay schooners, 26-27, 54
Christensen, H. C., 95
Ciudad Rodrigo, ex Star of Scotland, 115
Clark, Arthur H., 13, 15-16
Clement, 67
Clipper, 79
Coasting trade: American, 53-55; British, 70-71
Cock, James and Frank, 85
Cod fishing, 131
Colour schemes, 21, 56, 73
Construction: composite, 79; iron, 78-79; large wooden hulls, 105, 109, 117; steel, 85, 109;
wood versus iron and steel, 85, 103
Costs of construction, 37, 43, 49, 83, 89
County of Linlithgow, 115
Crew 21, 26; accommodation, 55-56; reduced by donkey engine, 106, 107, 109
Crowninshield, B. B., 115
Curlew, 37
Cutter-brig, 32
Cutters: lengthened, 34; precursor of clipper, 45-46; re-rigged as schooner, 32
Cutty Sark (1919), 113
Czarina, 88
D
Dagny, 98
Danish schooners, 94-96, 98
Dannebrog, 98
Daring, 49
Date, William, 43, 46
Dauntless, 90
Daylight, 115
de Chair, Cmdr G., 137
Deck layouts, 55-56, 73
Defiance, 34
Democrat, 75
Denny Bros, 78
Design: American fishing boats, 1815 22; cutters, 45-46; deck layouts, 55-56; foreand-aft rig,
53-54; on Pacific coast, 61-63; terns, 54, 60-61; Western Ocean yachts, 82-83
Dispatch, 59
Dogbody, 22
Dolphin, 87
Donkey engine, 59, 106, 107, 109
Doris Crane, 63
Dorothea, 43
Dovrefjeld, ex ps Rhode Island, 115
Downeasters, 54, 103
Dreadnought, 56
Drop keels, 23
Dude schooners, 89, 141
Dutch schooners in 17th century, 13-15, 93
E
Eamont, 48
HMS Earl of Egmont, 32
Edward B. Winslow, 108-109, 115
Edward Burgess, 109
Edward J. Lawrence, 109, 115, 117
Effort, 139
Eleanor A. Percy, 115
Englishman, 68
Enterprise, 27
Experiment (American c. l790), 27
Experiment (British 1802), 34
Express, 72
F
Faith, 24
Falkan, 133
Fame, 37
Familia, 94
Fanny, 48
Fast passages, 51, 82, 88
Federal, 119
Ferdinand, 94
Ferguson & Baird, 140
Fincham, John, 36
Fishing schooners: American, 19, 22, 124, 126-127; British, 130-131; French, 100, 131;
Portuguese, 127, 129
Fleetwing, 88
Fling, 72
Fly, 25
Flying Clipper, ex Sunbeam II, 133
Flying Fish, 127
Forbes, Capt R. B., 54
Fore-and-aft schooners, 6, 53-54, 74
Fort Laramie, 115
Frankfort Packet, 42
Frem, 96
French schooners, 100
Fruit trade, 47, 51, 68, 70, 80
G
Galliot, 75, 93
George Canning, 94
George Holt, 123
George W. Wells I, 11, 115
Gertrude L. Thebaud, 124
Gladan, 133
Glasgow, 67
Globe Navigation Co., 116
Goss, Sawyer & Packard, 55, 107
Gourlay Bros, 51
Governor Ames, 108
Grand Bank schooners, 126-127, 131
Gravesend, ex Spring, 46
Greenhill, Basil, 68, 75, 83, 101, 139
Greville, Hon. R. F., 47
H
H. K. Hall, 114
Hall, Alexander, & Co., 36, 43
Hall, Henry, quoted, 53, 59, 105, 106
Hall, Henry, K., 114
Hall, James W., 114
Hans (4-mast barque), 115
Hans (schooner), 95
Harriet, 49
Harris, P. K., & Sons, 75
Hattie E. Giles, 59
Hawkins, Clifford, 120
Hedderwick, Peter, 67
Helen B. Thomas, 124
HMS Helena, 32
Hellas, 43
Henrietta, 88
Henry S. Little, 112
Hero, 39
Herreshoff, 87
Hesper, 139
Hesper No. 5, 125
Hull-form: Barrow flats, 75-76; cutters, 46, 48-49; Danish schooners, 95, 98; flat bottoms stay
upright, 37, 71-72
Hilhouse, J. M., 46
Hill, Cmdr H. O., 76
Holm-Petersen, F., 43, 98
Honolulu, 85
Hon. East India Company, 41
HMS Hornet, 34
Huntley, 112
Hutton, Edward F., 91
Hurrell 48
I
Ice trade, 94-95
Inca, 62
Irene, 75
Irish sea stern, 75, 81
Irish wherry, 131
Isabella (1864), 81
Isabella (1878), 81
Iskra, ex St Blane, ex Vlissingen, 135
J
J. W. Clise, 116-117
James, 43
Jane, 33
Jane Palmer, 109
Janette, 88
Jardine, Matheson & Co, 47
Jenny, 37
Joe Lane, 89
John F. Leavitt, 141
Jones, David, 73
Josie R. Burt, 106
Juan de la Vega, 72
Juan Sebastian de Elcano, 133, 137
K
Katherine, ex County of Linlithgow, 115
Kathleen & May, ex Lime May, 138, 140
Katie, 84
Katie Cluet, 51
Katy, 30
Kelly, W., 51
King's Oak, 131
Kineo, 109
Kipping, Robert, 68
Kitsap, 62
Knockabout schooners, 124, 127
Krupp, 101
L
La Belle Poule, 133-134
Lawlor, J. D., 130
Lake Erie, 120
Langdan Gilmore, 53
HMS Lapwing, 49
Lean, William H., 74
Leavitt, John F., 141
Lescallier, Antoine, 32
L'Etoile, 133-134
Liberty, 37
Lilla Dan, 132-134, 137
Little, George, quoted, 28-29, 31
Little Secret, 82
Livonia, 89
Lizzie Garrow, 43
Lizzie May, 140
Lord Devon, 69
Lottie Bennett, 103
Louis, 62
Louise, 67
Lulworth, 87
Lumber trade, 58, 63, 105-106
Luther Little, 139
Lyman, John: on rigs, 62-63; schooner statistics, 60, 62, 109, 111, 115
M
M. A. James, 77, 83
McLean, John, & Sons, 60
McManus, T. F., 124, 127
Macpherson Collection, 26
Magnus Troll, 39
Malcolm Miller, 133, 136
Mulling, Jens, 98
Marblehead schooners, 19, 21, 25, 32
Maren, 94
Margaret Garton, 2, 70
Margaret Hobley, 85
Marie J. Thompson, 118
Marion F. Sprague, 56-57
Maritime Trust, 138, 140
Marta, 94
Mary (c. 1845 brig), 37
Mary (1875 smack), 72
Mary B. Brooks, 61
Mary Baker, 56
Mary Barrow, 79
Mary Dollar, ex Hans, 115
Mary Langdon, 6
Mary Rosanna, 82
Mathilde, 94
Matilda, 43
May, 54
Mazeppa, 47
Mediterranean schooners, 101
Melrose, 106
Mersey, 123
Mertie B. Crowley, 110, 115
Metero, 79
Midas, 26
Millom Castle, 64, 72, 76, 78
Minstrel, 72
Morris, E. P., 15-16
Morwenna, 90-91
N
Naraho, 99
Nathaniel T. Palmer, 109
National Maritime Museum (Greenwich), 22, 26, 32
Navahoe, 115
Neptune, 24
Noble, D., & Co., 85
Nonpareil, 25
North, John G., 61
North Atlantic trade, 81-82
Novelty, 62
O
Ocean Bride, 51
Opium clippers, 43, 47-48
Oregon Fir, 115
Oregon Pine, 115
Osprey, 51
Outward Bound Sea school, 133, 137
P
Pacific islands trade, 118, 120
Parker, Capt W. J. L., 108
Patricia A., 138, 141
Peder Most, ex Nette S., 133, 13;
Peggy, 23
Penola, ex Naraho, 99
Percy& Small, 115
Perseveranza, 101
Phantom (1853), 79
Phantom (1868), 130
Photographers: Calvert Jones, 24; W. A. Sharman, 73, 131; N. L. Stebbins, 55, 125
Pickard, William, 66
Pilot cutters, 24, 121, 123, 125-126, 130; see also Virginia pilot boats
Pinky, 126-127
Pioneer No. 6, 123
Pirate, 120
Pirates, 29, 31, 141
Plough, 36, 43
Polly, 55
Portmadoc schooners, 82-83
Postlethwaite, William, 78, 85
Pride of Baltimore, 140
Prince de Neuchatel, 42
Prince Louis II, ex Peder Most, ex Nette S., 133,136-137
Prior & Holdroff, 84, 85
Privateers 25, 28
R
R. I, Evans, 54
Rahra, 119
Rangi, 120
Reid, John, & Co., 85
Result, 77, 85, 138
Revenue cutters, 13, 27
Rhoda Mary, 50-51, 72
Richard, 92
Rigging: lazy jacks, 6; topsail yard on doubling, 94
Rigs: barquentine, 63; brigantine, 40-41; ketch, 10-11; lugger, 9; oddities, 85, 89; schooner-brig,
41, 43; sloop, 13; tern, 54
Rimac, 85
Ring-Andersen, J., 98, 132
ss Robin, 140
Robin Hood, 59
Robinson, Andrew, 16
Rosamund, 62, 109
Rosario, 63
Roscovite, 100
Royal Navy: American-built schooners, 21, 25, 27, 32; schooners used, 32, 34-36
Royal Transport, 15
Royal Yacht Squadron, 87
Rubie, 89
Ruth E. Merrill, 115
Ryrie, Alick J., 47-48
Ryrie, Phineas, 48
S
Sails: areas, 84-85, 106; early Bermuda, 11, 13, 26; gaff, 10, 32; leg-of-mutton, 11, 17, 26, 62,
103; listed on schooner, 10-11, 40, 74; lug foresail, 21; ringtail, 62, 103; roller-refing
topsail, 100; shoulder-ofmutton, 13; spritsail, 9-10, 22; square discontinued in American
schooners, 53-54, 62, 74; square on Pacific schooners, 62-63; stunsails, 31, 74, 79
St Ann, 19, 32
St Helena, 41-42, 46
Sappho (1821 British), 46
Sappho (1867 American), 88
Schooner-brigantine, 46-47
Schooners: American and British compared, 6, 55, 62, 74; compared with brigantines, 11, 27,
39-43; building boom in First World War, 60, 63, 98, 100, 111 ; Dutch, 14-15; early
3-masted, 25-26, 37, 51; first 3-masters in California, 61 ; first 3-masters in Canada, 59;
first 4-masters, 55, 61-62, 105; first 5-masters, 62, 108-109; 4-masters built in U.K., 83,
85; 6-masters listed, 115; fore-and-aft in U.K., 6, 36, 74; multi-masted, 115; origin of
word, 16; replace sloops, 19; square topsails on 2 masts, 87, 89, 94; staysail, 54-55, 100;
topgallant yard, 74; topsail, 74; see also Pilot cutters Schunerbrigg (schoonerbrig), 40, 94
Science Museum, 34
Scottish Maid, 19, 45, 49
Scows, 56, 120
HMS Sea Lark, ex Fly, 25
Shallops, 18, 22-23, 32
Shark, 31
Shenandoah, 89
Ship-handling, 29-31, 53-54, 109, 115
Silvia, 66
Simpson, Matthew, 68
HMS Sir Edward Hawke, 32
Sir Winston Churchill, 133, 136
Slade, Capt George, 77
Slavers, 47, 49
Sliding keel, see Centreboard Sloggett, Capt T. H., 47
Sophie Christenson, 107
Spark, 31
Spars: perroquet, 19; pidgeon yard, 19; square rigged mast, 39-40; yards on each mast, 32, 36
Speed, 30-31
Spinaway, 82
Spirit, 130
Spring, 46
Star of Scotland, 115
Steel, David, 34
Steers, George, 86, 88
Stephen, Alexander, & Sons, 78-79
Stephens, John, 82
Stevens, R. W., 51
Stormie Seas, 100
HMS Sultana, 19-21
Sunbeam, 88
Susan and Kate Deming, 61
Susan Elizabeth, 76
Susan Fittery, 51
Swansea pilot boats, 24, 125, 131
Sylvia, 66
Szymanski, Hans, 94
"Tall Ships" Races, 133-134, 137
Tango, ex Mary Dollar, ex Hans, 115
Terns, 54, 59-56
The Tweed, 121
Theresa Secunda, 47
Thuroe, 95
Thomas W. Lawson, 110,115
Thomas, William, 123
Tonnage measurement, 67
Trebilcock, William, 72
Trevellas, 51
U
Ulster Folk Museum, 138
Underhill, Harold, 133
Unique, 126
V
Verna, ex Hussar IV, 91
Venus, 2, 70
Vesta, 88
Victoria, 62
Villiers, Alan, 129
Vinner schooners, 101
Virginia pilot boats, 25-26, 30, 36, 125
Volunteer, 62
W
Wages, 42, 47-48
Wanderer, 121
Wars: American War of Independence, 21, 22, 25; First World War building-boom, 60, 63, 98,
100, 111; Napoleonic, 65; Nava 1812, 25,27.31
Water Lily, 47
Waterwitch, 49
Wave Queen, 127
Weldt, G. L., 102
Werner Vanen, 101
West Indies: schooners, 118, 120; trade with U.S.A., 19, 53-55, 61
Western Ocean Yachts, 73, 77, 80, 95
Westward, ex Hamburg 11, ex Westward, 87
Weybosset, 105
White, J. & R., 48
White, Thomas, 49
Wild Dayrell, 51
William Bisbee, 62
William L. Douglas, 109, 115
William L. White, 55, 105, 106
William Morton, 73
William Renton, 62
Winslow, Albert, 108
Winslow, J. S., & Co., 117
Wm. F. Vitzemann, 62
Win. J. Lermond, 104
Woodboats, 22
Wyoming, 115
Y
Yachts, 17th century, 13-15
Young's Nautical Dictionary, 40, 68
Yrsa, 96
Z
Zaritza, 44
Zebra, 59
Zingara, 120
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