Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Airlie of the Nova Scotia Schooner Association is one surviving example of a working schooner converted to pleasure. The advent of surfaced roads and trucking finished off the last coastal freight trade for the Tancook boats. The schooners were quickly phased out in favor of the gasoline powered "Cape Island" boat after 1940.
Nova Scotia Schooner Association Raceweek. From its location, ship building became an important industry in the early 1800s. In 1820, the settlers engaged in Labrador fishing and the first two vessels built for bank fishing including the "Valiant". In 1910 there was a fleet of 18 salt fishing schooners.
Modeled after schooner Wanderer (1858); privately owned; commercial charters; sail training vessel; 100 ton captain training. 2 masted gaff; topsail schooner [20] Black Douglas: 1930 Morocco: Privately owned; former school ship 3 masted Marconi/staysail schooner Bluenose II: 1963 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia: Replica of racing/fishing schooner Bluenose
The South Shore Schooners are a Junior C ice hockey team based in Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada. This franchise was established in 2019 returning the city to the Nova Scotia Regional Junior Hockey League. The previous franchise began in 2008 as the Chester Clippers before relocating to Sydney, where they played as the Northside Vics.
Bluenose was a fishing and racing gaff rig schooner built in 1921 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.A celebrated racing ship and fishing vessel, Bluenose under the command of Angus Walters, became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian symbol in the 1930s, serving as a working vessel until she was wrecked in 1946.
The fictional Kingsport is a larger town combining elements inspired by Halifax and Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. [17] The famous Canadian poet Bliss Carman wrote a classic poem of courage about a Kingsport schooner named Scud and her fearless twelve-year-old master. Entitled "Arnold, Master of the Scud", it featured in many Canadian poetry ...
HMS Halifax was a schooner built for merchant service at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1765 that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1768 for coastal patrol in North America in the years just prior to the American Revolution. She is one of the best documented schooners from early North America.
Sherman Zwicker is a wooden auxiliary fishing schooner built in 1942 at the Smith and Rhuland shipyard, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.Influenced by the design of the famous Bluenose, Sherman Zwicker was built to fish the Grand Banks.