schooner

(Newser) - The main mast of a historic excursion vessel splintered and fell onto the vessel's deck Monday, killing one person and injuring three others aboard the schooner Grace Bailey, officials said. A nearby Coast Guard vessel began evacuating the injured passengers within minutes of the mast's catastrophic failure and...

(Newser) - A newly restored wooden 19th-century ship sank just weeks after it was restored at a cost of $1.7 million. The No. 5 Elbe schooner, built in 1883, sank after a collision with a container ship near Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday, the BBC reports. Six adults and two children were...

(Newser) - Shipwreck hunters are planning to excavate around a Lake Erie wreck this summer that they think could be the remains of a schooner that went down nearly two centuries ago. Its size, design, and location point toward it being a sailing ship called the Lake Serpent, which sank in 1829,...

(Newser) - After hearing rumors that a shipwreck was just off the banks of the Connecticut River in East Hartford, police officer and scuba instructor Woodrow Tinsley had to have a look for himself. And while it didn't take him long to find the schooner he estimates to be 85 feet...