What is "schooners"

Usage examples of "schooners".

The schooners in the West African slave trade usually made a fast passage from the Gulf of Guinea across the Atlantic to the West Indies and America.

Instead, the island schooners carry the produce up to Martinique, where it's transhipped.

Obviously the cutters collected freight from the smaller bays and harbours round the island and brought it to St George, where it was transhipped to me larger schooners plying between me islands.

To a prying eye, he noted as he turned away, it was obvious all three schooners would be ready to sail in a few hours.

Which, Ramage suddenly realized, meant that the Colonel could interpret them to say he decided when the schooners sailed.

In fact they more than hinted there weren't any-- that the schooners were sailing off and handing themselves over to the French or Spanish.

Although some schooners leaving here bound for Martinique never arrive at Fort Royal, there's no indication they pass it.

In the past four months, thirty-one schooners had sailed from Grenada for Martinique and twenty-one had been captured.

No, although there was not one instance where the privateers had taken a schooner less than four days after capturing another, there were many cases where schooners had arrived safely in Martinique having sailed less man four days after one which had been captured.

Then Mayero and the Tobago Cays with more islets to the north, and Cannouan, larger and mountainous but hopeless for unloading schooners because of the swell.

Want to sail their schooners: they say the cargoes are spoiling and they'll miss the next English convoy from Jamaica unless the schooners reach Martinique in a few days.

And they're the losers because soon there won't be any schooners left.

I could lose half a dozen uninsured schooners without worrying too much.

Not as effective a spy as the butler--who obviously found out many other secrets--but equally effective as far as catching the schooners was concerned.

Phrases he uses, the way things are done--there aren't many schooners out here run Navy fashion.