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Although rescuers successfully saved the entire crew and their captain (who shared the schooner’s name), the vessel wasn’t so lucky.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026
The 98-foot-long schooner was built in Massachusetts in 1883.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026
When the schooner was just off the coast of El Salvador, a tramp steamer spotted them and finally supplied fresh water.
—Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
Ella is shocked to suddenly find Nick (Brown), a sailor and local Newport historian, aboard her schooner and accuses him of being a stowaway.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Dec. 2025
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026
The 98-foot-long schooner was built in Massachusetts in 1883.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026
When the schooner was just off the coast of El Salvador, a tramp steamer spotted them and finally supplied fresh water.
—Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
Ella is shocked to suddenly find Nick (Brown), a sailor and local Newport historian, aboard her schooner and accuses him of being a stowaway.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schooner
Noun
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Palm Beach Motor Yachts has taken its supermaxi sloop to new heights—quite literally.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
24 Feb. 2026
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Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History On Nov. 16, 1776, the Andrew Doria brigantine arrived in the Caribbean on the British colony St. Eustatius, waving the first national flag of the United States.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Jan. 2026
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On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Dec. 2024
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Pope Leo on Saturday made a day trip to Monaco, a tax-free microstate on the French Riviera known as a haven for billionaires and their luxury yachts, and urged its residents to share their wealth and help those in need.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
28 Mar. 2026
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And unlike some of their peers, McDonald and Loggins have both embraced yacht rock as a genre phenomenon, even appearing in a recent documentary on the subject for HBO.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
21 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
8 July 2025
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And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.—
Jim Shepard,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
Noun
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An Iranian mine nearly sank an American frigate.—
Bret Stephens,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2026
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In 1986, the fleet included 113 frigates, ships smaller than destroyers but vital for missions such as escorting convoys.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
3 July 2025
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One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs.—
Jake Offenhartz,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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On a bright-blue morning in July, 2023, a team of researchers took off in a catamaran from the island of Dominica in search of sperm whales.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2026
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Alcaraz, who recently lost the Miami Open but remains the first seed, just bought a Sunreef catamaran like his fellow sports star did in 2019.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Schooner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schooner. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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