schooners

• There were other vessels--schooners, barks, sloops, and the coast itself was visible as a blue line. —  Frank Merriwell's Reward
• There they paddle their birch canoes among the coasting-schooners, and build their wigwam beside some roaring mill-dam, and drive a little trade in basket-work where their fathers hunted deer. —  Twice Told Tales
• Your father gave me a passage on one of his steam-schooners, and when we got to the dock in San Francisco He was there, eh? —  Kindred of the Dust
• Deterred from the Ship Channel by the sunken schooners, and from Maffitt's Channel by the fate of the Columbia, we tried the Middle Channel, and glided over the bar without accident Sailing to Charleston is very much like going foreign," I said to a middle-aged sea-captain whom we numbered among our passengers. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
• Five other schooners were also purchased; the Hamilton_, of 10 guns, being the largest, while the other four, the Governor Tompkins_, Growler_, Conquest_, and Pert had but 11 pieces between them. —  The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

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