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- schooner 1
1
: a typically 2-masted fore-and-aft rigged vessel with a foremast and a mainmast stepped nearly amidships
2
: a larger-than-usual drinking glass (as for beer)
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On June 28, the team discovered the ship, a 144-foot-long schooner – a type of sailing vessel with two or more masts – that sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan in 1886.
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Julia Gomez, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Ella is shocked to suddenly find Nick (Brown), a sailor and local Newport historian, aboard her schooner and accuses him of being a stowaway.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
The wooden schooner got caught in a storm in the dead of night and went down in September 1886.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
Permanently at rest here are such ships as the Alva Bradley, an 1870s schooner that met its demise in an 1894 gale, and the Three Brothers, an 1888 lumber freighter that can be explored in just 15 feet of water and is accessed via a shallow-water beach entry from South Manitou Island.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
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Julia Gomez, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Ella is shocked to suddenly find Nick (Brown), a sailor and local Newport historian, aboard her schooner and accuses him of being a stowaway.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
The wooden schooner got caught in a storm in the dead of night and went down in September 1886.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
Permanently at rest here are such ships as the Alva Bradley, an 1870s schooner that met its demise in an 1894 gale, and the Three Brothers, an 1888 lumber freighter that can be explored in just 15 feet of water and is accessed via a shallow-water beach entry from South Manitou Island.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Schooner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schooner. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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schooner
noun
schoo·ner
ˈskü-nər 
1
: a ship with a fore-and-aft rig and two or more masts
2
: a large tall glass (as for beer)
3
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