Tall ship

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Cisne Branco is a tall ship of the Brazilian Navy

The USCGC Eagle in 1998 (US Coast Guard).

The N.R.P. Sagres (Portuguese Navy).

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. Most smaller, modern vessels use Bermuda rig. Though it did not become popular elsewhere until the twentieth century, this rig was developed in Bermuda in the seventeenth century, and had historically been used on its small ships, the Bermuda sloops. A modern replica of an 1831, Bermudian-built schooner^[1] is the sail training vessel Spirit of Bermuda (34.13 m, LOA). [1]

The term tall ship has come into widespread use in the mid-20th century with the advent of The Tall Ships' Races, and was not generally used in the era when such ships were the norm.

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).

[edit] International Sail Training Association, Class A Tall Ships

In alphabetical order (sortable). ^[2] International Sail Training Association classifies its A Class as "all square-rigged vessels over 120' (36.6m) length overall (LOA). Fore and aft rigged vessels of 160' (48.8m) (LOA) and over." ^[3] Also see list of tall ships for other tall ships, or List of large sailing vessels for a list that includes other sailing vessel types.

Class A Tall Ships

Current Name	Current Nationality	Original Delivery	Mast	Rig	LOA (m)	Beam (m)
Alexander von Humboldt	Germany	1906	3	Barque	63.0	10.8
Alpha	Russia	1948	2	Barquentine	44.0	8.9
Amerigo Vespucci	Italy	1931	3	Full rigged ship	102.7	15.8
Belem	France	1896	3	Barque	61.0	8.8
Bounty	United States	1960	3	Full rigged ship	51.5
Captain Miranda	Uruguay	1930	3	Staysail Schooner	63.7	7.9
Christian Radich	Norway	1914	3	Full rigged ship	98.1
Cuauhtemoc	Mexico	1982	3	Barque	90.5	12.0
Cisne Branco	Brazil	1999	3	Full rigged ship	76.2	10.7
Concordia	Canada	1992	3	Barquentine	56.4
Constitution	United States	1797	3	Full rigged ship	93.3
Creole	United Kingdom	1927	3	Schooner	65.2	8.9
Creoula	Portugal	1937	4	Schooner	92.0
Danmark	Denmark	1932	3	Full rigged ship	77.1	10.1
Dar Młodzieży	Poland	1982	3	Full rigged ship	108.8	14.0
Dewaruci	Indonesia	1953	3	Barquentine	58.2	9.4
Druzhba	Ukraine	1987	3	Full rigged ship	110.0
Dunay	Russia	1928	3	Full rigged ship	97.1	14.8
Eagle	United States	1936	3	Barque	89.9	11.9
Eendracht	Netherlands	1989	3	Gaff Schooner	59.1	12.2
Elissa	United States	1877	3	Barque	48.8	8.5
Esmeralda_(BE-43)	Chile	1953	4	Barquentine	113	13.1
Eugene Eugenides	Greece	1959	3	Topgallant Schooner	66.2	9.2
Europa	Netherlands	1911	3	Barque	56.4	7.3
Gazela of Philadelphia	United States	1883	3	Barquentine	54.3	8.5
Georg Stage (II)	Denmark	1935	3	Full rigged ship	54.2	8.5
Gloria	Colombia	1968	3	Barque	75.9	10.7
Gorch Fock	Germany	1958	3	Barque	89.3	11.9
Großherzogin Elizabeth	Germany	1908	3	Gaff Schooner	63.7	8.2
Guayas	Ecuador	1977	3	Barque	78.6	10.4
Jadran	Montenegro	1933	3	Topsail Schooner	58.2	8.9
Jessica	Australia	1983	3	Topsail Schooner	61.5	6.7
Juan Sebastián Elcano	Spain	1927	4	Topsail Schooner	113	13.1
Kaiwo Maru II	Japan	1989	4	Barque	110.0	13.8
Kaliakra	Bulgaria	1984	3	Barquentine	49.0	7.9
Khersones	Ukraine	1989	3	Full rigged ship	110.0	14.0
Kruzenshtern	Russia	1926	4	Barque	114.6	14.0
Leeuwin	Australia	1986		Barquentine	54.0	9.0
Libertad	Argentina	1960	3	Full rigged ship	105.2	13.7
Mercator	Belgium	1932	3	Full rigged ship	78.4	11.9
Meridian	Russia	1948	2	Barquentine	39.4	8.9
Morgenster	Netherlands	1919	2	Brig	48.0	6.0
Nippon Maru	Japan	1984	4	Barque	110.0	13.8
Lord Nelson	United Kingdom	1985	3	Barque	55.2	8.5
Mir	Russia	1987	3	Full rigged ship	109.1	14.0
Mircea	Romania	1938	3	Barque	82.1	12.5
Niagara	United States	1813	2	Brig	60.4	9.8
ORP Iskra (II)	Poland	1982	3	Barquentine	49.0	7.9
Palinoru	Italy	1934	3	Barquentine	68.9	10.1
Pallada	Russia	1989	3	Full rigged ship	108.6	14.0
Peacemaker	United States	1989	3	Barquentine	45.7	10.4
Picton Castle	Nova Scotia	1928	3	Barque	53.6	7.3
Pogoria	Poland	1980	3	Barquentine	46.9	7.9
Prince William	United Kingdom	2001	2	Brig	59.4	9.9
Roald Amundsen	Germany	1952	2	Brig	50.3
Sagres (III)	Portugal	1937	3	Barque	89.6	11.9
Sedov	Russia	1921	4	Barque	121.6	14.6
Shabab Oman	Oman	1971	3	Barquentine	54.0	8.5
Simon Bolivar	Venezuela	1979	3	Barque	82.3	10.4
Sorlandet	Norway	1927	3	Full rigged ship	60.5	9.6
Spirit of New Zealand	New Zealand	1986	3	Barquentine	45.2	9.1
Stad Amsterdam	Netherlands	2000	3	Full rigged ship	76.0	10.5
Statsraad Lehmkuhl	Norway	1914	3	Barque	98.1	12.6
Stavros S Niarchos	United Kingdom	2000	2	Brig	59.4	9.9
Surprise	United States	1970	3	Full rigged ship	54.6	9.8
Thor Heyerdahl	Germany	1930	3	Topsail Schooner	49.8	6.5
Tovarisch	Ukraine	1933	3	Barque	82.1	11.9
Unicorn	United Kingdom	1948	2	Brig	39.6	7.3
Wavertree	United States	1885	3	Full rigged ship	99.1	12.2
Wilhelm Pieck	Germany	1950	2	Brigantine	50.0	7.4
Young America	United States	1975	2	Brigantine	39.6	7.2
Young Endeavour	Australia	1986	2	Brigantine	44.0	7.8

[edit] Gallery

Kaskelot at the 2004 Bristol Harbour festival in England.	Kajama, a tourist tallship sailing in Toronto Harbour, Lake Ontario	The defining feature of square rigged tall ships - going aloft to set and stow sails.	The Earl of Pembroke
More than 36 tall ships participated in the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in Portsmouth, part of the fleet of 167 naval, merchant and tall ships from 36 countries	The masts and yards of a brig, a typical tall ship.	The Canadian schooner Maple Leaf, traditionally rigged, with a gaffed foresail, a square fisherman, and Marconi (fore-and-aft) main, staysail and jib.	Cisne Branco. Class A Tall Ship, Brazil. Waiting for the wind at the start of the Bergen to Den Helder Tall Ships Race 2008.

[edit] See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tall ships

• American Sail Training Association
• Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race
• Jubilee Sailing Trust
• List of tall ships
• List of large sailing vessels
• Sail training
• Tall Ships Challenge
• Tall Ship Chronicles
• The Tall Ships' Races
• Tall Ships Youth Trust

[edit] References

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

• Tall Ships' Regatta 2008
• American Sail Training Association
• Tall Ships Today!
• Sail Training International
• Tallships Australia, site providing information on tallships principally based in Australian and New Zealand waters.
• Bermuda Sloop Foundation
• 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.
• Tall ship photo gallery
• Tall Ships Gallery - Photographs of Tall Ships by photographer Richard Sibley.
• Tall Ship Training in Spain