Click on the thumbnail images for information on each vessel including deck and rig details to confirm the identification of the photo.

You can also check the different types of rig here to sort our barues and barquentines.

If you have information or images that we are missing contact Dan Conlin, Curator of Marine History, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

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

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

Distinctive features: white hull, Look for 3 orange lifeboats per side (only Halifax tall ship with three per side), thin double blue stripes , 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

Photo credit:
MMA, LRT

Comments: One of the largest tallships in world, 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

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