Topic summary
Schooners
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Schooner.
History
Schooners were popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1800s and early 1900s. By 1910, 45 five-masted and 10 six-masted bulk-cargo schooners had been built in Bath, Maine, and in towns on Penobscot Bay, including the Wyoming, which is considered the largest wooden ship ever built. The Thomas W. Lawson was the only seven-masted schooner built.