''Lady Maryland'' is a

gaff-rigged Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar (pole) called the ''gaff''. Because of the size and shape ...

, wood-

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topsail schooner A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...

. She is owned and operated by the

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-based Living Classrooms Foundation and is used as an educational vessel. Lady Maryland is one of four historic wooden sailing ship replicas designed by Thomas C. Gillmer.

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* * 1986 ships Individual sailing vessels Replica ships Schooners of the United States Two-masted ships Oyster schooners Sail training ships Education in Baltimore Chesapeake Bay boats Sailboat type designs by Thomas C. Gillmer {{ship-stub