Juan
Sebastian de Elcano Spans 370 Foot Topsail schooner was launched in 1927 and
has circumnavigated the world six times. This four masted schooner is the
offical training ship for the Spanish Navy
The HALF MOON was owned by Dutch East
India Company and sailed by Henry Hudson.. Hudson sailed northeast in
April 1609. When blocked by ice, he disregarded explicit orders and
sailed his ship, the , across the Atlantic to search for a Northwest
Passage .
Schooner Hannah was equipped,
outfitted and armed in Beverly, Massachusetts, and commissioned by
General Washington on September 2, 1775. She set sail three days later
under the command of Captain Nicholson Broughton of Marblehead, from
Beverly's Glover Wharf as the first armed vessel in Washington's Navy.
She captured her first prize on September 7, 1775.
Two Masted Schooner built in 1973 in South
Bristol, ME. Dedicated to sea education
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T/S
Havden
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Is an 3-masted schooner. She is built as
Lidan in Sjotorp, Vanern 1943. T/S Havden has sailed as a schoolship
since 1991. Our sailingschools are primary for teenagers
14-18 year old. For 1997 T/S Havden is sailing Nordisk Seglats(Lysekil,
Arendal, Hirsthals) and the last route of Tall Ships Race(Stavanger to
Gothenborg).
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Fullrigged iron clipper ship built in 1870
by Maudslay, Son & Field, London,
Schooner Haukur was built in Reykjavík
in 1973 and was one of two very special boats constructed in the shipyard
“John at Eleven”. For many years the boat fished from the Western
Fjords of Iceland before North Sailing bought the boat in 1996 converted
into a two mast sailing ship, similar to the fishing schooners of Iceland
construction of a full-scale
three-masted sailing ship, a replica of the Hector that carried the
early pioneers from Loch Broom, Scotland in 1773. Nova Scotia,
Canada
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Helga Holm is a full scale
replica of a medieval long ship, found at the excavation s on Helgeandsh
olmen in central Stockholm in 1979-80. Helga requires a crew of 15-25
people. Her home harbour is the Bosö Boat Club on the island of Lidingo
in Stockholm.
Heemskerck
expedition sent to discover the size and shape of the South Land began
with a set of instructions issued to Abel
Tasman, one of the VOC’s
(Dutch East India Company) most skilful sailors, in August 1642.
the last commercial sailing
vessel on the Great Lakes, is now being restored by the Bayfield
Historical Society. She was crafted in Bayfield, Ontario, Canada on the
shores of Lake Huron between 1923 & 1926 following the lines of the
Great Lakes Schooner
Helena
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oceangoing youth sailing ship meeting
modern requirements and combining them with glorious sailing traditions
Grand Bank Topsail Schooner
with a round wine glass bottom and full keel, overhanging transom design
and Carvel wood planked construction. She was built in 1924 at the
Yard of James and Tarr Shipwrights of Essex, Massachusetts.
The vessel's design was created by Starling Burgess. Highlander
Repair Photos 2005
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Hindu was designed by William Hand (as in
the Schooner Bodoin) and built in 1925 by Hodgkin Bros., Boothbay,
Maine. Hindu. She is 61' 3'' on deck 80' overall owned by
On September 1, 1871 the
Gloucester fishing schooner Edward A. Horton,
while on a trip to the Cape Shore for mackerel, was seized by a Canadian
Cutter for fishing inside the three mile limit.
Built in 1893 at Essex, Massachusetts, the
Lettie G. Howard is a type of fishing schooner once widely used
along the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Texas. The Lettie,
which operated out of Gloucester, Massachusetts for her first eight
years, My
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(ISEA) is a non-profit
organization whose mission is to provide a floating classroom where
people of all ages can gain first-hand training and experience in the
Great Lakes ecosystem.
Iris was built in 1916 and is a
fine example of the last generation of sailing luggers. In 1929 she
received her first engine and was converted into a commercial trading
vessel, then based in Denmark she sailed for 40 years on the Baltic Sea.
A 38
foot long two-masted schooner, the ISABELLA, has been commissioned by
William Greene, from South Dartmouth, MA. Schooner Isabelle old fashion launch
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Isabelle
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Ketch. Wood. U.S.A.; Newport,
Rhode Island. Built 1924 by William Fife, Scotland.
RI
Iskra
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( ex St. Blane; ex Vlissingen)
3-masted gaff schooner. Steel. Poland. Built 1917 by G. Muller, Foxhol,
Holland
Future topsail Schooner Island
Rover.We have a very special concept in construction and mission
completion date is planned for spring 2004
Maine
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gaff rigged
schooner fitted with topsails, 12 years old operating in Newfoundland as
a tour vessel. Every atempt is made to sail schooner out to see icebergs
and whales
J.S. Williams (ex-Phoenix)
The scow schooner J.S. Williams began her career as the Phoenix (U.S. Registry 20224). Built in 1868 by L.Reed in Henderson, New York, she was 121.4 feet in length, 26.1 feet in beam, with a 8.2 foot depth of hold and a gross tonnage measurement of 211-78/95 tons (Old Measure). The Phoenix typified many of the Great Lakes schooners built after the Civil War,
Jacob
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Top Sail Schooner
Netherlands
Jacobstads
Wapen
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The two-masted gaff-schooner
Jacobstads Wapen was built in 1988- 1994 in Jakobstad, Finland. She is
built according to the oldest existing shipdrawings in Finland (from
1755), made by the famous Swedish naval architect Fredrik Henrik af
Chapman (1720- 1808).
gaff-rigged
schooner named "Jakatan" The schooner was designed by Bob
Perry and built by Jespersen Boat Builders in Sidney, British Columbia,
Canada. The boat was completed in August 2007 after two years of
construction
The STS Jean de la Lune is
Scotland’s only working square rigged tall ship. the 110 foot
brigantine Originally built in 1957 in France whe worked as a fishing
vessel as far as the Azores' tuna ground
Scotland
Jeanie
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recreation of the Irish
Emigrant Ship. Built in Quebec City in 1847,she travelled to Quebec,and
other North American ports transporting the Irish fleeing the great
potato famine.
Spanish Navy training ship a
four-masted top-sail schooner, with square-rigged foremast, the ship has
20 sails built 1927
Spain
John
Ena
built by Robert
Duncan in Glasgow, Scotland in 1892 at a cost of $135,000. This tall
ship, an all steel, four-masted bark which many seaman considered to be
the fastest vessel in the Hawaiian Islands, registered at 2,842 tons,
312 feet long, 48 feet wide and reached a depth of 25 feet. In a good
breeze she was capable of a 14 knot stride. Upon her maiden voyage in
1895, The John Ena was registered in Honolulu and flew the Hawaiian
flag. She was owned by the San Francisco Shipping Company and named
after a prominent Chinese-Hawaiian merchant of Hawaii.
The Los Angeles
Maritime Institute (LAMI) began construction of two 90 foot brigantines
in January, 2000. The project is currently underway at the Los Angeles
Maritime Museum in John Gibson Park, San Pedro, California. The
Brigantine Boatworks is a visitor friendly "working
waterfront," set up as a living history exhibit of the museum.The
vessels are designed to be "state-of-the-art" youth sail
training vessels with onboard laboratory, library and meeting areas.
Grounding of Irving Johnson
on 21 March, 2005 the Brigantine
Irving Johnson ran aground in Channel Islands Harbour,
California. This is a short collection of various pictures taken
of that event.
was built in
Denmark in 1914. Originally named N.E. Schmidt - - she
hauled cargo, including salt fish and coal, for most of her career.
Later, renamed Jylland, refitted her to carry passengers
and rerigged as a three-masted topsail, gaff-rigged schooner. worked the
tourist trade throughout the West Indies until she tragically sank in
the Caribbean Sea west of Union Island in May 1980.
