Threemasted

The schooner Onward, a threemasted vessel, owned by C. P. Doe & Co., of San Francisco, may become a total wreck as a result of going ashore on the beach just south of Coquille bar on February 25.

Elijah, skiff, light crumpled throwaway, sailed eastward by flanks of ships and trawlers, amid an archipelago of corks, beyond new Wapping street past Benson’s ferry, and by the threemasted schooner Rosevean from Bridgwater with bricks.

There was a duke in a black hat with a red plume. There was his duchess, wearing pearls and a fathered velvet gown. Rembrandt had painted them, and they hung in the diningroom. There was a crest, a threemasted ship, sails unfurled, pennants flying.