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Gloucester fishing schooners

Scope note

Two-masted fishing schooners with long narrow bows, straight keels, and a draft limited to 10 to 12 feet due to shoal slips used by them in Gloucester, Massachusetts, harbor; generally found from around 1900 to the 1930s, and used for banks and market fishing.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000254598

Broader Terms used

fishing schooners

Equivalent Terms used

Gloucester fishing schooner

Created

13yrs ago

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