The ''Papeete'' was a schooner built in 1891 by Matthew Turner, a San Francisco Bay Area shipbuilder who had extensive business interests in

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. The ship was known for a fast passage from

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

to Tahiti of 17 days. She was built to serve in the packet trade, as was the similarly named

barquentine A barquentine or schooner barque (alternatively "barkentine" or "schooner bark") is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts. Modern barquentine sailing ...

''City of Papeete''. Schooner ''Papeete'' was still afloat in 1929.

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Schooners Two-masted ships Ships built in Benicia, California History of Tahiti Passenger ships of France Merchant ships of France 1891 ships Transport in French Polynesia {{Merchantship-stub