NO. 3 - THREE-MASTED SCHOONER

This painting by Alfred Wallis depicts a type of vessel of North American design, built for speed in the coastal freight trade.

In Britain, ships of this type were known as ‘three-masted fore-and-afters’, though they were never common in British waters.

Wallis most likely encountered them during his voyages along the coasts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in 1876, where these impressive schooners were a familiar sight.