Topsail Schooner is a piece of digital artwork by Peter Chilelli which was uploaded on October 5th, 2014.
Topsail Schooner
Schooners first evolved in the late 1600s from a variety of small two-masted gaff-rigged vessels used in the coast and estuaries of the Netherlands.... more
Title
Topsail Schooner
Artist
Peter Chilelli
Medium
Digital Art
Description
Schooners first evolved in the late 1600s from a variety of small two-masted gaff-rigged vessels used in the coast and estuaries of the Netherlands. Most were working craft but some pleasure yachts with schooner rigs were built for wealthy merchants and Dutch nobility. Following the arrival of the Dutch monarch William the Orange on the British throne, the British Royal Navy built a Royal yacht with a schooner rig in 1695, HMS Royal Transport. Such vessels were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century. They were further developed in North America from the early 18th century, and came into extensive use in New England.[1] The most common type, with two masts, were popular in trades requiring speed and windward ability, such as slaving, privateering, blockade running, and offshore fishing.[2] In the Chesapeake Bay area several distinctive schooner types evolved, including the Baltimore clipper, bugeye, and pungy.
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