er, exclaimed: “See how capable of carrying 8,000 tons of coal, but was a little too she scoons!” “If she scoons,” remarked her builder, “‘she unwieldy at sea with her large number of heavy lower sails, must be a schooner’—hence the name. The first three-masted and a misfit generally at the coal… … years previous to that date the prediction was made that at the present rate of decrease, the remaining square-rigged fleet would totally disappear in less than twenty years. Since where coal cargoes had to be landed in narrow rivers and then, up to the latter part of 1906, there has been a decline…
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