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with dark sails
name on side
very small
Marconi rigged
Gaff rigged
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with dark sails
with gun ports
with raked masts
Square Rigged
Marconi rigged
Gaff Rigged
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Fair Jeanne

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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: Very similar to Bluenose, but has high white deckhouse on stern & flew smaller Canadian flag at Parade of Sail.
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: 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: 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, 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

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, eventually abandoned in Newfoundland, but 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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