Schooner in Halifax Harbour is a photograph by John Malone which was uploaded on September 30th, 2012.
Schooner in Halifax Harbour
Schooner in the Halifax Harbour during the Tall Ships Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, my home town. If there dropped into see me at JSM... more
by John Malone
Title
Schooner in Halifax Harbour
Artist
John Malone
Medium
Photograph - Photograph Canvas Print
Description
Schooner in the Halifax Harbour during the Tall Ships Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, my home town. If there dropped into see me at JSM Fine Arts. I am in the downtown a stones throw from Halifax waterfront.
A schooner /ˈsku˘°nər/ is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts, the foremast being no taller than the rear mast(s).
Such vessels were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century (but may not have been called that at the time - see etymology, below). Originally schooners were gaff-rigged, but modern schooners may be Bermuda-rigged. Schooners were further developed in North America from the early 18th century, and were more widely used in the United States than in any other country.[1] The most common type of schooners, with two-masts, were popular in trades that required speed and windward ability, such as slaving, privateering, and blockade running. They were also traditional fishing boats, used for offshore fishing.[2] In the Chesapeake Bay area several distinctive schooner types evolved, including the Baltimore clipper and the pungy.
Schooners were popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but in Europe they gradually gave way to the cutter.
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September 30th, 2012