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Dan Conlin,
Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic

Photo credit:
Dan Conlin,
Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic

Distinctive features: White hull, large bridge forward, round blue insignia on upper topsail
Comments: Goodwill ambassador for City of Osaka, Japan
Name Origin: Means "longing for the sea".
Sources: Koza, 15; Agogare website http://www.akogare.or.jp/eng/top.html

Photo credit:
Dan Conlin,
Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic

Photo credit:
Dan Conlin,
Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic

Class: A
Rig: ship
Length: 331.6' LOA Mast Height 160'
Built: 1931, Naples Italy
Crew: 150
Tonnage: 4100 displacement , 2686 Thames M.

Distinctive features: Enormous high hull with two white stripes her whole length.
Comments: Largest sailing vessel in Mediterrean. Has look of a 18^th century ship of the line. Huge wooden helm, every belaying pin labelled with a brass plate.
Name Origin: Italian cartographer and navigator for whom America is named.
Sources: Beken, 1985; Liberman, 23

Photo credit:
Dan Conlin,
Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic

Photo credit:
Dan Conlin,
Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic

Distinctive features: arched windows on aft deckhouse, boxy hull, one piece masts
Comments: Built as New Zealand Sail training vessel, commissioned as Indonesia's first training vessel at 1995 Arung Samudera Conference of island nations. Operated by Indonesian Navy.
Name Origin: means Ocean Crossings
Sources: Koza, 28; http://www.stet.it/CuttySark/it/cutty535.html (stats)
 

Photo credit:
Dan Conlin,
Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic

Photo credit:
Dan Conlin,
Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic

Photo credit:
Dan Conlin,
Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic

Class: A
Rig: Schooner 3 masts
Length: 126' LOA, 99 waterline
Built: 1944, Svenborg, Denmark
Crew: 38
Tonnage: 99 Gross

Distinctive features: Very round bow, black hull
Comments: interesting working history on North Sea including time as cattle carrier
Name Origin:
Sources: Beken, 34
 

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Cristina Lombardi

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MMA, LRT

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MMA, LRT

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MMA, LRT

Class: A
Rig: schooner, 3 masts, marconi rig
Length: 205' LOA
Tonnage:
Built: 1930, Spain
Crew:

Distinctive features: Black hull, white stripe, large bridge superstructure amidship, an old hull but very modern rig and superstructure.
Comments: originally a cargo ship, converted to survey vessel for Uruguay's navy, converted to school ship in 1978
Name Origin: Capt. Francisco Miranda, officer, navy secretary, professor of marine geography.
Sources: Koza, 45

Distinctive features: blue-grey hull, dark red sails, varnished rubrails, pilot style bowsprit (to one side), very similar to Eleanor Mary (which has "Em" on white sails) and Alice Wragg. (which has Wn3" on white sails). Somewhat similar to Jolie Brise. (which has a black hull & red sails).
Comments: One of three "Westerman" style cutters in event, based on Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters of late 1800s, built with latest boatbuilding technology in Nova Scotia.
Sources: Covey Island Boatworks newsletter June 2000, www.coveyisland.com

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MMA, LRT

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MMA, LRT

Distinctive features: Clean white welded hull, two tiers portholes, boxy stern, very similar to Russian Mir.
Comments: Replaced the famous Dar Pomorza as Poland's merchant navy cadet ship when the former was retired as a museum ship. Building funded by public donations.
Name Origin: Means "Gift of Youth"
Sources: Beken, 1985, 68

Class: C
Rig: sloop (cutter)
Length: 54 LOA
Mast height: 73'
Built: 1977, Gosport, England
Tonnage: 24.5 Gross
Crew: 12

Distinctive features: blue hull, modern looking, very low molded deckhouse
Comments: used for joint services military adventure training, resembles sister ship: Kukri
Name Origin: well known reindeer
Sources: NS Parade of Sail Guide, 1984

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MMA, LRT

Distinctive features: diagonal red stripe with coast guard crest on white hull
Comments: Built as Nazi training vessel, Horst Wessel, transport in WW II, shot down 3 Russian aircraft, war trophy to US, US Coast Guard training vessel
Name Origin: US national symbol
Sources: Eagle brochure
 

Class: A
Rig: schooner, 3 masts
Length: 118 LOA
Tonnage: 226 TM
Built: 1974, Amsterdam
Crew: 38

Distinctive features: blue hull, white uppers, very short bowsprit
Comments: sister to Sir Winston Churchill
Name Origin:
Sources: Beken, 74

Distinctive features: huge white hull, short waist deck, Condor figurehead
Comments: sail trainer for Chilean navy, largest sailing vessel in western hemisphere, armed with four 57mm cannons
Name Origin: Spanish warship captured in Chile's war of independance
Sources: Beken, 80; Lieberman, 16; Koza, 70

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MMA, LRT

Distinctive features: white hull, green "boot-topping" paint below the waterline, large winged bridge, name in large gold letters on stern
Comments: Columbian Navy sail trainer, lines based on classic German barques of 1920s & 30s such as Eagle.
Name Origin: Gloria Zawadsky de Rebeiz, wife of defence minister who supported construction
Sources: Beken, 106; Liberman, 17; Koza, 82

Class: C
Rig: yawl
Length: 55 overall
Built: 1978
Tonnage: 24 Gross
Crew: 8

Distinctive features: white hull, often carried blue canvas screen around cockpit with number
Comments: private yacht converted from charter work
Sources: http://www.sailboston.com/ships/gulliver_of_southampton.shtml

Class: B
Rig: schooner 2 masts
Length: 116'
Tonnage:
Built: 1924, Essex, Massachusetts
Crew:

Distinctive features: similar to Bluenose, but stern narrower, larger aft deckhouse
Comments: Reputed to have been built to race Bluenose, long career as Boston pilot vessel, trains merchant cadets for Secunda fleet
Name Origin: Named for Cape Breton Highlands and all Secunda vessels have "Sea" at end
Sources: 1990 Inventory, US Parks, 210

Distinctive features:
Comments: won best newcomer in 1997 Cutty Sark Race
Name Origin:
Sources: Boston Tallships http://www.sailboston.com/ships/ice_maiden.shtml

Distinctive features:
Comments: Trains cadets from Naval Secondary School of Puglia
Name Origin:
Sources: Boston Tallships: http://www.sailboston.com/ships/idea_due.shtml

Class: C
Rig: ketch
Length: 69' overall
Built: 1990
Tonnage:
Crew: 17

Distinctive features: red hull, thin black stripe, low white deckhouse
Comments: Operated by Ocean Youth Trust, one of the largest youth sail training organizations in the world.
Name Origin:
Sources: http://www.oyc.org.uk/OYTSouth.htm#boats

Class: C
Rig: sloop (gaff cutter)
Length: 72' LOA, waterline 48'
Built: 1913, Le Havre, France
Tonnage: 55 displacement, 44 Thames Measurement

Distinctive features: black hull, thin red stripe, tan red sails, straight "plumb" bow, bowsprit to one side, very traditional looking
Comments: Legendary! Originally Le Harve pilot cutter, became English yacht in 1920s, winner of countless races, last sailing vessel to carry Royal Mail, saved by Portuguese doctor in 1940s, bought by Exeter Maritime Museum in 1977 for sail training.
Name Origin: happy, fair wind
Sources: Beken, 122; Anderson, 62; Koza, 99

Class: A
Rig: barque, four masts
Length: 361' overall, Mast Height: 182'
Built: 1989, Tokyo, Japan
Tonnage: 2879 Gross
Crew: 199

Distinctive features: Huge white hull, thin double blue stripes, 3 orange lifeboats per side, double gaffs on jigger mast
Comments: Replaced 1930 Kaiwo Maru as Japanese sail trainer, has identical sister ship Nipon Maru, graceful figurehead of Konjo.
Name Origin: means deep blue sea
Sources: Kaiwo Maru ship leaflet; Koza, 126

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MMA, LRT

Comments: 2^nd The last deep-sea, square rigged merchant vessel ever built and still one of the largest tall ships in world, she was built as Padua of the flying P line in Nitrate and Grain trade with South American and Australia, barge in WW II, Russian war trophy converted to training vessel for Fisheries Ministry
Name Origin: Johann Ritter von Kruzenshtern (1770-1846) Russian admiral and hydrographer
Sources: Beken, 129; Liberman, 34; Koza, 107

Class: C
Rig: sloop (cutter)
Length: 55' overall, waterline 39'
Mast Height: 69'
Built: 1975, Gosport, England
Tonnage: 24 Gross
Crew:12

Distinctive features: resembles sister ship: Dasher
Comments: One of a fleet of nine Nicholson 55s built by Camper and Nicholson for the British military for joint services military adventure training
Name Origin:
Sources: Anderson, 62 Boston Tallships: http://www.sailboston.com/ships/kukri.shtml

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MMA, LRT

Distinctive features: white hull, large bridge between fore & main mast
Comments: among the world's largest tallships, holder of several speed records, has often visited Halifax, has several Hotchkiss guns, like the one in our navy gallery
Name Origin: Means liberty and is reflected in a figurehead depicting liberty.
Sources: Beken, 132; Koza, 113.

Clas:s A
Rig: barque, 3 masts
Length: 169.5' LOA
Mast Height: 108.5'
Tonnage: Gross 368, displacement 490
Built: 1986, Vosper Thornycroft, Southampton
Crew: 8 permanent, 20 able, 20 disabled

Distinctive features: black hull, white uppers, very flat deck and wheelchair platform out bowsprit for disabled crew. Modern looking one-piece masts.
Comments: Custom built to allow disabled people to experience sail training. Has many innovative features including a speaking compass and elevators between decks.
Name Origin: Horatio Nelson, famous British Admiral (1758-1805)
Sources: Koza, 116; Lord Nelson web page http://www.jst.org.uk/lord_nel/index.htm

Class: A
Rig: full rigged ship
Length: 358'LOA
Built: 1987, Gdansk, Poland
Tonnage: 2824 displacement
Crew: 206

Distinctive features: white hull, broad blue strip along side, boxy stern.
Comments: Near identical sister ship to Dar Mlodiezy. Fast - two time winner of Cutty Sark Races. Trains marine engineers.
Name origin: means "peace"
Sources: Koza, website: www.tallship-friends.de/ships.htm

Class: C

Comments: One of the fastest boats in her class. Distinctive features: white hull, blue stripe at waterline, name on side. very modern looking
Name Origin: Full name is Norddeutsche Vermogen Hamburg
Sources: Boston Tall Ships website http://www.sailboston.com/ships/norddeutsche_vermogen_hamburg.shtml

Class: B
Rig: brig
Length: 198' LOA
Mast Height: 118'
Built: 1988, Erie, Pennsylvania
Tonnage: 492 Gross
Crew:

Distinctive features: black hull, yellow gunports and sweep (oar) ports, very traditional rig with single topsails.
Comments: Replica of Oliver Perry's flagship at Battle of Lake Erie, incorperates some timber of 1813 vessel. Good representation of Royal Navy brigs based in Halifax and privateer brigs such as Liverpool's Rover and Sir John Sherbrooke.
Name Origin: Named for border River in Great Lakes
Sources: Niagara ship brochure & web site: http://www.brigniagara.org/niagara.htm

Distinctive features: White hull, very modern looking, Bermuda sails
Comments: used for youth training by Gordonstoun School, Scotland
Name Origin:
Sources: http://www.gordonstoun.org.uk/grdnstn/seaman.htm

Class:B
Rig: topsail schooner, three masts
Length: 167'
Built: 1918, Netherlands
Tonnage: 226 Gross
Crew:34

Distinctive features: white hull, wide blue hull at rail, graceful sheer (curve along deck)
Comments: remarkable career, hauling freight across Baltic, to Mediterranean and along African Coast, mast removed and converted to motor coastal freighter in 1950s, purchased for restoration in 1980, completed in 1992, beautiful woodwork interior. Strongly resembles many tern schooners built in Nova Scotia around 1900-1919.
Sources: Oosterschelde website: http://www.oosterschelde.nl/uk/indexuk.htm

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MMA, LRT

Class: B
Rig: barque, 3 masts
Length: 179' LOA
Built: 1928 as trawler, Selby, England
Tonnage: 298 Gross, 565 displacement
Crew: 38

Distinctive features: white hull with distinct black rubrails, long quarterdeck, small streamlined wheelhouse, traditional rig.
Comments: served as Royal Navy minesweeper in WW II, converted to barque in 1998, based in Lunenburg, made 'round the world trading/training voyage. Canadian crew for Tallships 2000.
Name Origin: named after Scottish Castle
Sources: Picton castle brochure & website www.picton-castle.com

Class: A
Rig: barkentine, 3 masts
Length: 154' LOA
Mast Height: 104'
Built: 1980, Gdansk, Poland
Tonnage: 342 displacement
Crew: 51

Distinctive features: white hull, broad blue stripe, x shaped symbol on each foresail, gaff sail on main, marconi on mizzen
Comments: Flagship of Polish yacht Association, first square rig design of Zygmunt Choren who has designed many new tallships such as Concordia.
Name Origin:
Sources: Beken, 162; Sail Toronto Guide 1984, 28

Class: B
Rig: topsail schooner, 2 masts
Length: 173' LOA
Built: 1988, Baltimore Inner Harbour
Tonnage: 185 Gross
Crew: 47

Distinctive features: black hull with yellow stripe along gunports, heavily raked masts, very large foreyard, low deckhouses.
Comments: replica of War of 1812 Baltimore Clipper style privateer, similar in look (although double the size of Nova Scotian War of 1812 privateers). This is the 2^nd replica. The first sank in a squall in 1986 with 4 deaths.
Name Origin: Part of rejeuvination of Baltimore in 1980s, also nickname of famous Baltimore privateer Chasseur.
Sources: Pride website: http://www.intandem.com/NewPrideSite/

Class: A
Rig: brig
Length: 165' overall
Mast Height: 111'
Built: 1952, Rorlau, Germany
Tonnage:
Crew: 44

Distinctive features: black hull, thin white line at deck level, traditional rigging style.
Comments: Built as transport for East Germany army in cold war, converted to sail trainer in early 1990 as employment project.
Name Origin: Norwegian polar explorer (1872-1928) first to make NorthWest Passage.
Sources: www.sailtraining.com/roald.html
http://www.c@llas.de/e_index.html

Distinctive features: white hull, long low molded deckhouse
Comments: sail trainer to give sea experience to cadets from urban London. Oyster 68 hull compelted by volunteers in 1992.
Sources: Boston Tallships: http://www.sailboston.com/ships/rona_ii.shtml

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MMA, LRT

Class: A
Rig: ship, 3 masts
Length: 179' LOA
Mast Height: 130'
Built: 1970, Smith and Rhuland, Lunenburg, NS
Tonnage: 500 displacement
Crew:

Distinctive features: high yellow hull, black stripes, white below waterline, large figurehead of lion, white masts with distinct black bands, mizzen short compared to other masts.
Comment: The only Nova Scotian built square rigger participating in Tall Ships 2000, Rose was built in Lunenburg at the same shipyard that built a replica of HMS Bounty ten years earlier. Loosely based on original plans, her exterior gives a rough sense of a typical Royal Navy warships based in Halifax in the 18^th Century.
Name Origin: HMS Rose, a 6th rate 20 gun warship built in 1757, fought American smugglers, later scuttled off Savannah in 1779.
Sources: Lyon The Sailing Navy List, 90; At Sea newsletter v.1, n.1; Lieberman, 54; Koza, 145; website: http://www.tallshiprose.org/

Class: C
Rig: schooner, 2 masts
Length: 142' LOA
Built: 1942, Smith & Rhuland, Lunenburg, NS
Tonnage: 180 Gross
Crew: 30

Distinctive features: very long black hull, masts very close together, no cabins except rounded wheelhouse on stern.
Comments: One of the last Grand Banks schooners, similar to Theresa E. Connor at the Fisheries Museum in Lunenburg, representing the final stage in fishing schooner evolution - engine was main power. Fished for 20 years out of Lunenburg, later abandoned in Newfoundland, but was eventually rescued and restored.
Name Origin: family member of Zwicker & company, the original owners.
Sources: Ship brochure, 1990 Inventory, US Parks Service, 232.

Class: A
Rig: brigantine
Length: 145' LOA
Mast Height: 98'
Built: 1949, Nykobing Mors, Denmark
Tonnage: 125 Gross
Crew: 22

Distinctive features: White Hull, very rounded stern, most traditonal looking brigantine in event, large deckhouse & davits amidships.
Comments: built as trading ketch on Baltic and North Sea, rerigged as brigantine in 1978, noted for role in BBC's Onedin Line, used by Jubilee Sailing Trust before they built Lord Nelson.
Name Origin: named after original owner & builder.
Sources: Beken, 194 and website: http://www.sorenlarsen.co.nz/

Distinctive features: red and green spinacker sail with crest (the colours of Italy's flag)
Comments: sail trainer for Italian Navy
Name Origin: The Pole Star (North Star) an important navigational reference
Sources: www.sailbostonb.com/ships/stella_polare.sthml

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Class: C
Rig: ketch
Length: 92', 28.15m LOA
Built: 1961, Temse, Belgium
Tonnage: 136 displacement
Crew: 14

Distinctive features: white hull, Belgium coat of arms on spinacke with big yellow cross, large white wheelhouse amidships
Comments: did coastal survey and research, now sail trainer for Belgian Navy, wooden hull
Name Origin: Belgian inventor who perfected AC electric motors in 1870s
Sources: Liberman, 14, Koza, 177 and website: http://www.mil.be/marine/eng/700gr.htm

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