topsail schooner

noun

1. a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.

Word History and Origins

Origin of topsail schooner¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Instead of flying back from Cuba as originally planned, the crew and students stocked up on supplies and warm clothes and set sail for the northern Dutch port of Harlingen, a five-week voyage of nearly 4,350 miles, on the 200-foot topsail schooner Wylde Swan.

From Fox News

In 1963, an American sailor named Don Stewart was sailing the Valerie Queen, a 1912 70-foot wooden topsail schooner, around the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.

From Scientific American

What: A full-size replica of a topsail schooner used by privateers in the War of 1812 to attack British ships.

From Washington Post

Captain Abraham Prout, master and part owner of the topsail schooner Myrtle, of 120 tons burthen, came on deck on hearing the mate give the order "All hands shorten sail!"

From Project Gutenberg

The Navy decided to turn this amiable trait to good account, and fitted out the Prize, a topsail schooner of 200 tons, and placed her under the command of Lieut.

From Project Gutenberg