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Three-Masted Schooner Sailplan
Document Type: Photo/Image
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Date: 1980s
Creator: Nova Scotia Museum
ID Number: Schooner_3_Profile
Keywords: Shipping, Schooner, Sails
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Description:
Schooners are fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessels, with at least two masts; the after mast is the same height or taller than the foremast. Three-masted schooners were also called tern schooners. The only 7 master schooner was the Thomas W. Lawson. More commonly found in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th century coastal trade were 4 and 5 masters. A few six masters were built.
The diagram is from the Nova Scotia Musuem Informational poster, Sailing Ship Rigs.
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