lumber hooker

{{Short description|Type of ship}}

Lumber hooker is a nautical term for a Great Lakes ship designed to carry her own deck load of lumber and to tow one or two barges. The barges were schooner barges: large old schooners stripped of their masts and running gear to carry large cargoes of lumber.*{{cite book| last= Boyer | first = Dwight| title= Great Stories of the Great Lakes: Thrilling Tales of Tragedy, Humor, and Heroism| publisher = Freshwater Press, Inc. | year= 1996| location = Cleveland, Ohio, USA| isbn = 0-912514-49-3}}