An oyster schooner is a type of traditional fishing boat specifically designed for the harvesting of oysters. Typically, an oyster schooner was a gaff-rigged...

schooner's woodwork was done in Maine. The ship's windlass, the heavy mechanism that lifts and lowers the anchor, was taken from an oyster schooner....

The following are notable schooner-rigged vessels. A. W. Greely, originally named Donald II Ada K. Damon Albatross USS Alligator (1820) Alvin Clark America...

restored dredging oyster schooner, whose home port is in the Bivalve section of Commercial Township in Cumberland County, New Jersey. The schooner was added to...

Cashier is a former two-masted Delaware Bay oyster schooner located at the Bayshore Center in the Bivalve section of Commercial Township in Cumberland...

The Maggie S. Myers is an oyster schooner, built in 1893 reportedly at Bridgeton, New Jersey. She is 50-foot-long (15 m) and all the framing is of white...

cruises to tourists. Charles Riggin had her built for his dredging oyster schooner fleet and named her after his sons, Jacob and Edward. They all captained...

1926 a gasoline engine was installed, and Alma became an dredging oyster schooner, remaining in this trade until 1957. While built and operated on San...

clipper, evolved from the pilot schooner. Its principal usage was to haul freight, particularly perishables ranging from oysters to farm produce. It was capable...

oyster harvesting laws resulted in their use to cease. Completed in June 2006, the Schooner Pier Complex provides a home for the two Biloxi Schooner replicas...

she is the oldest of a small number of surviving oyster schooners, used in service of the oyster harvesting industry in the coastal waters of New Jersey...

The Katherine M. Lee is a sail-powered oyster schooner, built in 1912 at Greenwich, New Jersey. She is 85-foot-long (26 m) and all the framing is of white...

Lady Maryland is a 104-foot (32 m) gaff-rigged, wood-hulled pungy topsail schooner. She is owned and operated by the Baltimore-based Living Classrooms Foundation...

Jersey's Bayshore Center, the home of New Jersey's tall ship, the oyster schooner A.J. Meerwald. Seeger's benefit concerts helped raise funds for groups...

Oyster Police Force (“Oyster Navy”) schooner, part of the force established to enforce state conservation laws designed to protect Maryland's oyster resources...

Oyster Police Force (“Oyster Navy”) schooner, part of the force established to enforce state conservation laws designed to protect Maryland's oyster resources...

An oyster pirate is a person who poaches oysters. It was a term that became popular on both the West Coast of the United States and the East Coast of...

built as a steam ferry Rebuilt as a car ferry Originally built as a steam Schooner. Lightvessel No. XVII Gedser Rev is the full name of the ship. Bow and...

'Native Oysters' which were collected from beds beyond the low water mark from Roman times until the mid-20th century. The annual Whitstable Oyster Festival...

were rescued. A man from the Dutch schooner Wylde Swan was presumed drowned after he and two others from the schooner had boarded the Wyvern in an attempt...

Belgenland with 40 tons of coal, and towing to the Breakwater the oyster schooner Annie Cooney—abandoned off the Brandywine Light—before escorting several...

history is intertwined with the oyster harvest, commercial fishing, and shipbuilding. The AJ Meerwald, a 1928 oyster schooner that operated on the Maurice...

poaching. At that time the Oyster Navy operated two Oyster Schooners, the Tangier and the Pocomoke. In 1897, the Virginia Oyster Navy and the Board of the...

Mystic Seaport Light Collection of historic buildings 1824 ropewalk 1874 oyster house Carved vessel figureheads List of maritime museums in the United States...

234722; -75.030556 (A. J. Meerwald) Commercial Township Delaware Bay oyster schooner 2 Beth Hillel Synagogue More images November 7, 1978 (#78001755) 547...

section of Port Norris, located by the mouth of the Maurice River. The oyster schooners Cashier and A. J. Meerwald, also listed on the NRHP, are located here...

Oyster Police Force (“Oyster Navy”) schooner, part of the force established to enforce state conservation laws designed to protect Maryland's oyster resources...

use his knowledge of its location as a bargaining tool. Kidd landed in Oyster Bay to avoid mutinous crew who had gathered in New York City. To avoid them...

the oyster and fruit trade. The Oyster schooner David Carll was later known as the Blackbird. Captain Sam Holt once piloted the Oyster schooner David...

operating primarily in the Rappahannock River. In mid-March, a fleet of oyster schooners operating in the area was threatened by a Confederate enemy force,...