Grand Banks Schooner

Description

Grand Banks Schooner
Phoebe, – built 1870, – length 53’ weight – 33t, – at Titus Langille/Zwicker Shipyard

Grand Bank Fishing Schooners have two or more masts with fore and aft sails. Similar to the famous Bluenose, our example, in addition to all the normal lower sails, carries a main gaff topsail and a fisherman’s staysail set between the masts. Silhouette depicts a vessel with her winter rig.
Hundreds of schooners largely destined for the offshore fishing industry and produced in the shipyards of Mahone Bay sailed out of fishing ports from Newfoundland to the eastern seaboard of the United States.