Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-172.114.39.247-20171006032704/@comment-27144409-20171021195257

TheoldStone1000 wrote: It was a ship joke, a schooner is a small flagship. Not for a long time, if ever.

A dreadnought is roughly comparable to a battleship, but even in fiction, I've only heard of schooners as sailing vessels, almost always civilian except during times before steam powered ships.