TALL SHIP

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 generally more complex than modern rigging, which utilizes newer materials such as aluminum and steel to construct taller, lightweight masts with fewer, more versatile sails.
The term ''tall ship'' has come into widespread use in the mid-20th century with the advent of The Tall Ships' Races.
While Sail Training International (STI) has extended the definition of ''tall ship'' for the purpose of its races to embrace any sailing vessel with more than 30 ft. (9.14 m) waterline length and on which at least half the people on board are aged 15 to 25, this definition can include many modern sailing yachts, so for the purposes of this article, tall ship will refer to those vessels rated as class "B" or above (Fore and aft rigged vessels between 100 to 160 feet in length, and all square rigged vessels).
The well-known poem "Sea Fever" by the English Poet Laureate John Masefield contains the line "And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by", inspired by the poet's experience of serving in sailing ships during his youth.^[1]

Contents

Today's tall ships

Gallery

See also

References

Further reading

External links

Today's tall ships

:''(listed alphabetically by vessel name)''

★ ''A.J. Meerwald'' ★ ''Adventuress'' ★ ''Akogare'' ★ ''Alabama'' ★ ''Albanus'' ★ ''Alexander von Humboldt'' ★ ''Alma'' ★ ''Alma Doepel'' ★ ''America'' ★ ''American Eagle'' ★ ''American Pride'' ★ ''American Rover'' ★ ''Amerigo Vespucci'' ★ ''Amistad'' ★ ''Angele Aline'' ★ ''Angelique'' ★ ''Anna Kristina'' ★ ''Antigua'' ★ ''Aphrodite'' ★ ''Appledore IV'' ★ Argus'' ★ KRI ''Arung Samudera'' ★ ''Asgard II'' ★ TS ''Astrid'' ★ ''Astrid Finne'' ★ ''Atlantica'' ★ ''Atlantis'' ★ ''Balclutha'' ★ ''Baltic Beauty'' ★ ''Batavia (ship)'' ★ ''Bel Espoir II'' ★ ''Belem'' ★ FS ''Belle-Poule'' ★ ''Bill of Rights'' ★ ''Black Jack'' ★ ''Black Pearl'' ★ ''Bluenose II'' ★ ''Boa Esperanza'' ★ HMS ''Bounty'' ★ ''Bounty of Kristor'' ★ ''Bowdoin'' ★ ''Brilliant (ship)ǀBrilliant'' ★ ''Bryza H'' ★ ''Californian'' ★ ''Capitan Miranda'' ★ ''Af Chapman'' ★ ''Christian Radich'' ★ ''Cisne Branco'' ★ ''Clearwater'' ★ ''Concordia'' ★ ''USS Constellation ★ ''USS Constitution'' ★ SSV ''Corwith Cramer'' ★ ''Creoula'' ★ ''Cuauhtémoc '' ★ ''Cutty Sark'' ★ ''Danmark''

★ ''Dar Młodzieży'' ★ ''Dar Pomorza'' ★ ''Den Store Bjorn'' ★ ''Denis Sullivan'' ★ KRI ''Dewaruci'' ★ ''Dunbrody''[2] ★ USCGC ''Eagle'' ★ ''Earl of Pembroke'' ★ ''Eendracht II'' ★ ''East Indiaman Götheborg'' ★ ''Elissa'' ★ ''Ernestina'' ★ ''Empire Sandy'' ★ HM Bark ''Endeavour'' ★ ''Esmeralda'' ★ ''Étoile'' ★ ''Europa'' ★ ''Falls of Clyde ★ ''Fryderyk Chopin'' ★ ''Gazela'' ★ ''Georg Stage'' ★ ''Glenlee'' (Glasgow) ★ ARC ''Gloria'' ★ ''Golden Hind'' ★ ''Gorch Fock'' ★ ''Gorch Fock II'' ★ ''Grand Turk'' ★ ''Hawaiian Chieftain'' ★ ''Irving and Exy Johnson'' ★ ORP ''Iskra'' ★ ORP ''Iskra II'' ★ ''Jeanie Johnston'' ★ ''Jolie Brise'' ★ ''Juan Sebastián Elcano'' ★ ''Kaisei'' ★ ''Kaliakra ★ ''Kalmar Nyckel'' ★ ''Kaskelot'' ★ ''Kruzenshtern'' ★ ''Lady Maryland'' ★ ''Lady Nelson'' ★ ''Lady Washington'' ★ ''STS Leeuwin'' ★ ''Lene Marie'' ★ ''Lewis R. French'' ★ ''Libertad'' ★ ''Lord Nelson'' ★ ''Lynx'' [1] ★ ''Manitou'' ★ ''Maple Leaf, schooner'' ★ ''Mir'' ★ ''Mircea'' ★ ''Mystic Whaler'' ★ ''Moosk''[3] ★ ''Nadezhda'' ★ US Brig ''Niagara'' [2] ★ NRP ''Sagres''

★ ''RV Oceania'' ★ ''One and All ★ ''Pacific Grace ★ ''Pacific Swift ★ ''Pallada ★ ''S.T.V. Pathfinder'' ★ ''T.S. Playfair'' ★ ''Passat'' ★ ''Pogoria'' ★ ''Polly Woodside'' ★ ''Pommern'' ★ ''Peking'' ★ ''Phoenix'' ★ ''Picton Castle'' [3] ★ ''Pilgrim'' ★ ''Pride of Baltimore II'' [4] ★ ''Prince William'' ★ ''R.Tucker Thompson''[5] ★ SSV ''Robert C. Seamans'' ★ ''Royal Clipper'' ★ TS ''Royalist'' ★ ''Schulschiff Deutschland'' ★ ''Sea Cloud'' ★ ''Sedov'' ★ ''Shabab'' ★ ''Shenandoah'' ★ ''Sloop Providence'' ★ ''Soren Larsen'' ★ ''Solway Lass'' ★ ''Spirit of Bermuda'' ★ ''Spirit of Dana Point'' ★ ''Spirit of New Zealand'' ★ ''Spirit of South Carolina'' ★ ''Stad Amsterdam'' ★ ''Statsraad Lehmkuhl'' ★ ''Star Clipper'' ★ ''Star Flyer'' ★ STS ''Mir'' ★ ''Star of India'' ★ ''Stavros S Niarchos'' ★ HMS ''Sultana'' ★ \"HMS\" ''Surprise'' (ex-''Rose'') ★ ''Swan fan Makkum'' ★ ''Swift of Ipswich'' ★ ''Sørlandet'' [6] ★ INS ''Tarangini'' ★ ''Tenacious'' ★ ''Tocorimé Pamatojari'' ★ ''Tole Mour'' ★ ''Tradewind'' ★ HMS ''Trincomalee'' ★ HMS ''Victory'' ★ ''Windy'' ★ ''Windy II'' ★ STS ''Young Endeavour'' ★ ''Zodiac'' ★ ''ZEBU_(Brigantine)''

Gallery

See also

★ American Sail Training Association

★ Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race

★ Sail training

★ Tall Ships Challenge

★ Jubilee Sailing Trust

References

1. http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/seafever.htm
2. http://www.dunbrody.com/
3. http://www.cremyll-sailing.org.uk/tall_ships.htm

Further reading

★ American Sail Training Association; ''Sail Tall Ships!'' (American Sail Training Association; 16th edition, 2005 ISBN 0-9636483-9-X)

★ Thad Koza; ''Tall Ships: A Fleet for the 21st Century'' (Tide-Mark Press; 3rd edition, 2002; ISBN 1-55949-739-4)

External links

★ Tall Ships' Regatta 2008

★ American Sail Training Association

★ Tall Ships Today!

★ ASTA race classes info

★ Jubilee Sailing Trust

★ Sail Training International

★ Tallships Australia, site providing information on tallships principally based in Australian and New Zealand waters.

★ Blue Cruise

★ Tall ship pictures published on USENET stored with a search function.

★ Tall-ship pictures for personal/commercial use.

★ Maritime Heritage Network, an online directory of maritime history resources in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

★ University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Transportation Photographs An ongoing digital collection of photographs depicting various modes of transportation in the Pacific Northwest region and Western United States during the first half of the 20th century.