Full-rigged ship.
Steel. Built 1886. Launched 12/09/1886, Charles Connell & Co.,
Glasgow, Scotland. Currently used as a museum ship at
Fishermans Wharf, San Fransisco
Three Masted
Barquentine was built in the northern Norwegian town of Hemne in 1895
and 1896. She was launched under the name "Moder" during the
spring of 1896. started her life sailing the North Atlantic as a whale
chaser and cargo vessel
Reconstruction of the
Batavia on a shipyard in the Dutch city of Lelystad. Under the guidance
of Master-shipbuilder Willem Vos a group of young people worked on this
project
The 90-foot
schooner Bat'kivshchyna (Fatherland) and it's captain are the means by
which Discover Ukraine hopes to accomplish its charter. The
Bat'kivshchyna is currently in the United States, having completed
participation in OpSail2000tm and TallShips2000tm (see Events). Next is
a visit to the Great Lakes in 2001, the US west coast in 2002, followed
by a visit to Australia, and eventually home; having effectively
circumnavigated the globe
3-masted
barkentine. Wood. LOA=190ft. 30in oak hull with Australian Ironwood
sheathing. Built, 1873 by Dundee&Son, Dundee, Scotland. Considered
by many to be the finest ship ever to serve in the U.S. Revenue
Service(the forerunner to the U.S. Coast Guard).
(formerly Giorgio
Cini, Fantôme II, Belem) Bark (3m). L/B/D:
162.7 × 28.9 × 11.5 . Built: France; 1896. 1922Sold
to A.E. Guinness and renamed the Fantôme II 1972
Rerigged again as a barque. 1979 Returned to French ownership and given
back her original name Belem 1983 Put back in active service as a
training ship. Photo
Bessie-Ellen is one
of the last remaining examples of a West Country Trading Ketch, popular
as cargo vessels around the UK and Europe up until the 1930’s. Such
vessels were the livelihoods of many families in Cornwall and Devon and
Bessie-Ellen was owned and worked by the same family for 40 years.
brigatine School
ship origins were as a tug, originally
constructed in Scotland and sent to Quyon, Quebec on the Ottawa River
for fitting in 1904. She was launched on May 2, 1904 and later converted
to a tall ship in 1952
Canada
Black
Pearl
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1991
barkentine.
Wood. Built, 1951 used as private yacht
A Grand Banks
fishing schooner is acknowledged to h0ave the largest working mainsail
in the world, measuring 4,150 square feet (386 m² ), Total sail area
measures over 11,000 square feet (1036 m² ) Nova Scotia
Archives and Records Management
The Continental gondola (or
gundalow) Boston was one of eight or nine small, single-masted
rowing gunboats built at Skenesborough (now Whitehall), New York, in
mid-1776. Intended to help defend Lake Champlain from British forces
driving down from Canada, she was probably identical to, or at least
very similar to, the Philadelphia, which was salvaged nearly
intact during the 1930s and is now on exhibit at the Smithsonian
Institution. On 11-13 October 1776 Boston participated in the
Battle of Valcour Island a
Boston, a 514-ton 24-gun
frigate, was built at Newburyport, Massachusetts, as part of the effort
by the American colonies to create a seagoing navy. Completed in 1777,
in May of that year she began a North Atlantic cruise in company with
the frigate Hancock
USS Boston, a 700-ton
28-gun frigate, was built at Boston, Massachusetts, paid for by public
subscription during the undeclared war with France. Commissioned in
mid-1799, she protected American commerce in the West Indies from July
1799 until June 1800. After spending the summer off the U.S. coast she
resumed station in the West Indies in September 1800. On 12 October 1800
Boston captured the French frigate Le Berceau after a
bloody engagement and subsequently brought her prize back to the U.S.
A coal-carrying merchant ship
operating on the coast of England, The Bounty was purchased by
the admiralty and recommissioned in 1787. She was to sail
halfway around the world to Tahiti; collect Cargo and transport
it to the West Indies. A dramatic mutiny was lead by Fletcher
Christian against the infamous Captain Bligh. After completion
of the commissioned trip, Fletcher and his mutineers forced
Bligh into the launch with 18 of his loyal supporters. Fletcher
navigated the longboat 3,600 miles and settled for the next 25
years on Pitcairn Island
The 1921 auxiliary
schooner Bowdoin is a unique vessel in the annals of American maritime
history and the saga of Arctic exploration -National
Historic Landmark Study
Maine
Arctic
Schooner Bowdoin : A Biography Midwest Book Review
Author Virginia Thorndike's love of sailing and great
boats shines through in her lively portrait of this remarkable
vessel. The 74-year-old Bowdoin comes alive through the personal
journals, published records, and tales from dozens of people
whose lives have been changed by their time spent with the
schooner. Thorndike traces the Bowdoin's diverse lives from an
exploration vessel and conscript in the Navy during WW II, to a
museum exhibit and a classroom for Outward Bound. The biography
includes historic, black-and-white photos of the Bowdoin and
those who have sailed aboard her on more than 25 Arctic voyages,
as well as outstanding color photos by acclaimed photographer
Tom Stewart. Today, owned by Maine Maritime Academy.
The frigate
SUSQUEHANNA was renamed BRANDYWINE prior to her launching by Washington
Navy Yard, with President John Quincy Adams on board, 16 June 1825.
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Built in
1886 in Mauricetown, NJ. Built originally as a working schooner hauling
oysters in the Delaware Bay. She was rebuilt in 1973 for the passenger
trade and has been in Penobscot Bay, Maine since then. She is a National
Historic Landmark.
