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Lynx is a square topsail schooner based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She is an interpretation of an American letter of marque vessel of the same name from 1812. The original Lynx completed one voyage, running the Royal Navy blockade; the British captured her in 1813 at the start of her second voyage and took her into service as HMS Mosquidobit.
The tall ship Lynx returned to Stage Harbor in Chatham Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. Lynx left Nantucket at 8:30 a.m. Sunday and arrived at the Stage Harbor entrance just after 3 p..m. The Lynx is a near ...
Donald Peacock, captain of the tall ship Lynx, will collaborate with troubadour Bill Schustik in a story-telling and musical tribute to the 1814 Battle of Nantucket, considered one of the most ...
A full-scale sailing replica of this schooner, the tall ship Lynx, was built at Rockport, Maine, in 2001 by Woods Maritime under President Woodson K Woods, and then operated in California. Her home is now Nantucket, Massachusetts, transferring from port of registry previously Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships. It is sorted by overall length.
Nantucket has a long maritime history realted to the whaling industry, immortalised in the Whaling Museum; the island served as a partial setting and inspiration for Herman Melville’s novel ...
HMS Lynx – one of ten vessels or shore establishments of the British Royal Navy; USS Lynx – one of two vessel names of the US Navy; USS Lynx II (SP-730) – a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919; French corvette Lynx (1804) – The British captured her in 1807 and named her HMS Heureux. She was broken up in 1814.
A ship that was stranded on High Pines, a section of Duxbury beach off the Gurnet. "In March 1792, the ship Columbia, of three hundred tons, of Portland, Capt. Isaac Chauncy, was stranded on the beach at the High Pines, and fourteen men lost, and two, the second mate and a boy, were saved." [8] Columbia United States: 26 November 1898