Tall ships (skud)

Tall ship

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A tall ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. Traditional rigging may include square rigs and gaff rigs, with separate topmasts and topsails. It is... more

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Balclutha Balclutha Ship   San Francisco
Balclutha, also known as Star of Alaska, Pacific Queen, or Sailing Ship BALCLUTHA, is a steel-hulled full rigged ship that was built in 1886. She is the only square rigged ship left in the San Francisco Bay area and is representative of several...
HM Bark Endeavour Endeavour.jpg Ship   Sydney
His Majesty's Bark Endeavour was a collier built in 1768 in Whitby, North Yorkshire. The vessel was purchased by the Admiralty for James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean ostensibly to observe the 1769 transit of Venus. After this event...
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USS Constellation USS Constellation 1 Location Full rigged ship Baltimore
USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war, or corvette, and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. According to the US Naval Registry, the original frigate was disassembled down to the keel on 25 June 1853, in...
Museum ship
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James Craig The James Craig in Geelong in 2006 Museum ship Barque Sydney
James Craig is a three-masted, iron-hulled barque restored and sailed by the Sydney Heritage Fleet. Built in 1874 in Sunderland, England, by Bartram, Haswell, & Co., she was originally named the Clan Macleod. She was employed carrying cargo around...
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Irving Johnson Ship    
The twin brigantine Irving and Exy Johnson are the flagship of the Los Angeles Maritime Institute's (LAMI) TopSail Youth program, a non-profit organization created as a character building organization to help at risk youth prepare for life through...
Lynx Schooner Lynx Ship Topsail schooner Newport Beach
Lynx is a square topsail schooner based in Newport Beach, California. She is an interpretation of an American privateer vessel of the same name from 1812. The original Lynx played its part in running the British blockade, assisting the then almost...
Earl of Pembroke Earl of Pembroke at the 2004 Bristol Harbour festival. Ship    
Earl of Pembroke is a tall ship, currently being used for historical films. She can also be rented for excursions. She was built in Pukavik, Sweden as "Orion" in 1945 or 1948, available sources disagree. Until 1974, the ship was used to haul...
Kaskelot The Kaskelot at the 2004 Bristol Harbour festival. Ship   Charlestown
Kaskelot is the flagship of the Square Sail fleet and is based out of her homeport of Charlestown, Cornwall, UK (though registered to Bristol). She is a three-masted barque and one of the largest remaining wooden ships in commission. The Kaskelot...
Phoenix   Ship    
The Phoenix was built by Hjorne & Jakobsen at Frederikshavn, Denmark in 1929 as an Evangelical Mission Schooner. Twenty years later she retired from missionary work and carried cargo until her engine room was damaged by fire. In 1974 she was...
Glenlee Picture of the tall ship Glenlee at Glasgow Harbour. Ship    
Glenlee is a three-masted baldheaded steel-hulled barque, launched fully rigged and seaworthy on December 3, 1896. She is now a museum ship at Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow, known as The Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour. Glenlee was built in 1896 at the...
Gorch Fock The Gorch Fock Ship Barque  
The Gorch Fock is a tall ship of the German Navy (Deutsche Marine). She is the second ship of that name and a sister ship of the Gorch Fock built in 1933. Both ships are named in honor of the German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pseudonym ...
Sail training vessel
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Kaisei Ship Brigantine Sausalito
The STS Kaisei (海星), meaning “Ocean Planet” in the Japanese language, is a fast and capable steel hulled brigantine designed by Zygmunt Choreń and built in Gdańsk, Poland in 1987. Originally commissioned by the Polish Yachting Association as the...
Peking Pekingship Ship    
The Peking is a four masted barque the identical sister ship to the Passat. A so-called Flying P-Liner of the Germany company F. Laeisz, it was one of the last generation of windjammer used in the nitrate trade and wheat trade around the often...
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Museum ship
Amerigo Vespucci The Amerigo Vespucci Ship Full rigged ship Livorno
The Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Marina Militare, named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Her home port is Livorno, Italy. As of 2005, she is still in use as a school ship. In 1925, the Regia Marina ordered two school ships to be built...
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Escuela Naval Militar The Spanish Training Tall Ship "Juan Sebastián Elcano" Ship    
The Escuela Naval Militar de Oficiales (ENM) at Marín, Pontevedra, in north-western Spain, is the Spanish institution in charge of training the Spanish Navy's officer class, as well as other naval personnel. It has been established here since 1943,...
Juan Sebastián Elcano The Spanish Training Tall Ship "Juan Sebastián Elcano" Ship    
The Juan Sebastián Elcano is a training ship for the Royal Spanish Navy. She is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled schooner. At 113 metres (370 feet) long, she is the third-largest Tall Ship in the world. She is named after Spanish explorer Juan...
Sail training vessel
RV Oceania Oceania Ship Full rigged ship  
RV Oceania, or SY Oceania, is a tall ship, owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and used as a research vessel. She was built in 1985 in the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland, after the design of Zygmunt Choreń. The hull was based on plans of earlier...
Elissa Elissa enters Port Galveston Ship Barque  
The tall ship Elissa is a three-masted barque. She is currently moored in Galveston, Texas, and is one of the oldest ships sailing today. The Elissa was built in Aberdeen, Scotland as a merchant vessel in a time when steamships were overtaking...
HMS Surprise Replica of HMS Rose under sail, before her conversion to Surprise Ship Full rigged ship San Diego
HMS Surprise is a modern tall ship, built at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia as Rose in 1970 to a Phil Bolger design based on the original 18th century Admiralty drawings. She was a replica of HMS ''Rose'', a sixth-rate frigate built in 1757. The ship was...
Museum ship
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Tall ship in film
Fragata Libertad Ship Full rigged ship  
The Fragata Libertad is the School-Ship of the Argentine Navy, and was built in the 1950's at the Rio Santiago shipyards near Buenos Aires, Argentina. It's maiden voyage was in 1962, and it continues to be the School-Ship with yearly Instruction...
Sail training vessel
Grand Turk Grand Turk, at anchor in Oostende, Belgium Ship Full rigged ship  
The Grand Turk is a replica of a three-masted sixth-rate frigate, well known for depicting HMS ''Indefatigable'' in the TV series Hornblower, although the historical Indefatigable was a much bigger ship. She has also served in the same TV series as...
TS Royalist The TS Royalist during the Trafalgar 200 international fleet review Ship Brig  
TS Royalist is a brig owned and operated as a sail training ship by the Sea Cadet Corps of the United Kingdom. Royalist was designed by Colin Mudie RDI and launched in 1971 by The Princess Anne. In 1992, Royalist was taken out of the water for a...
Sail training vessel
Belem moored at Oostende, Belgium Ship Barque  
The Belem is a three-masted barque from France. She was originally a cargo ship, transporting sugar from the West Indies, cocoa, and coffee from Brazil and French Guiana to Nantes, France. By chance she escaped the eruption of the Mount Pelée in...
Concordia ConcordiaSzczecin2 Ship Barquentine Bridgetown
The S.V. Concordia is a tall ship owned by West Island College, Canada. The Concordia is a 57.5m (188ft.) steel Barquentine designed, built and used for the West Island College Class Afloat program. Her home port is Bridgetown, Barbados.
Corwith Cramer Brigantine Corwith Cramer under full sail in the Caribbean Sea Ship Brigantine Woods Hole
The Corwith Cramer is a tall ship (specifically a brigantine) owned by the Sea Education Association (SEA) sailing school, named after SEA's founding director. Her home port is Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. She was designed by Wooden and Marean...
Prince William Prince William alongside in Fredrikstad at the end of the Tall Ships' Race 2005 Ship Brig  
Prince William is one of two tall ship used by the Tall Ships Youth Trust (formerly the Sail Training Association). This British charity aims to promote self-confidence, responsibility, teamwork and similar qualities in young people through sailing...
Sail training vessel
Stavros S Niarchos The Stavros S Niarchos under full sail off the Isle of Wight in October 2003 Ship Brig  
The Stavros S Niarchos is a British brig-rigged tall ship owned and operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust. She is primarily designed to provide young people with the opportunity to undertake voyages as character-building exercises, rather than pure...
Sail training vessel
Albert Leo Schlageter The Portuguese Navy school ship Sagres Ship Barque  
The Albert Leo Schlageter, since 1961 the school ship Sagres (III) of the Portuguese Navy, is a three-masted tall ship launched on 30 October 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for the German navy (Kriegsmarine) as a training vessel for cadets. It...
Sail training vessel
Khersones   Ship Full rigged ship  
The Khersones or Chersones is a Ukrainian three-mast tall ship, a full rigged ship. It was built in 1989 in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland, in a series of six sister ships (among which also the Mir), after the designs of Zygmunt Choreń. The ship is named...
Sail training vessel