Looking for advance information on Schooners

[hostage]

I am looking into shipwrecks in the local area and I would like to know some details about the evolution of schooners to assist in the identification of a couple of wrecks. Would anyone have a suggestion of a book, resource, or website that would give me a lot more information on schooners?

I just identified a 177ft lost steamer that was discovered a decade ago, it just happen to match what they were looking for so they assumed it was the one they were looking for. The way I was able to identify it was from the cargo and the number of boilers as well as historic information.

-Hostage

 

[haulnazz15]

Re: Looking for advance information on Schooners

I've seen this one locally. Only about 12ft long without the twin forward-mounted drives attached.

 

[hostage]

Re: Looking for advance information on Schooners

:facepalm:

Well those were apparently named after the Scow Schooners. I would like to see how schooners evolved over the years so it would help us match up wrecks based of features: i.e. tiller vs wheel, etc.