. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of the Large 2-Masted Clipper Schooner Vaquero, built as a packet at Baltimore, Maryland, 1852-53. Until lost at sea, she was employed in the Pacific between San Francisco, Melbourne, and Honolulu. were not armed, or they were very lightly armed, for they usually depended upon speed to evade capture. Brigs and brigantines were much favored m the trade and any schooners employed in the trade carried large square sails on the foremast, at least, being usually fore-topsail schooner rigged. The slavers were flush decked, with a low trunk o
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Lines of the Large 2-Masted Clipper Schooner Vaquero, built as a packet at Baltimore, Maryland, 1852-53. Until lost at sea, she was employed in the Pacific between San Francisco, Melbourne, and Honolulu. were not armed, or they were very lightly armed, for they usually depended upon speed to evade capture. Brigs and brigantines were much favored m the trade and any schooners employed in the trade carried large square sails on the foremast, at least, being usually fore-topsail schooner rigged. The slavers were flush decked, with a low trunk on the deck aft in schooners, brigantines, and brigs. Sometime about 1820-25 a few Chesapeake Bay builders went to Cuba to build slavers that were operated under the Spanish flag. Later many of the South American flags were employed by slavers, since these countries permitted slave trading long after England, United States, and the nations having colo- nies in the West Indies had forbidden it. From one of the few slavers taken by or purchased for the British Navy, plans of a topsail schooner were made, and the plans of two brigs and two other schooners also survive. Usually captured slavers were hauled up and cither burned or broken up by the British, to avoid the slavers purchasing them and putting them back into the trade. The American Navy engaged in suppres- sion of the trade but political and economic factors made it less effective in this than the British Navy. The slave trade gradually declined in the first half of the 19th century, but it did not cease entirely in Ameri- can waters until the 1860's. During the period of piracy in the West Indies, that occurred after the peace of 1815, freebooters operated from shore establishments on the Cuban and Florida coasts, from which they made destructive forays upon American commerce in the Gulf and in the Caribbean. They preferred small craft for their operations and had a strong preference for Chesapeake pilot-boat schooners th
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