Asgard II -
Ireland
104' long brigantine from Ireland,
owned by the state and operated as a sail training ship. She was built in
Wicklow, Ireland, and launched in 1981 as a replacement for the original
Asgard. She has 372 square-metres of sail and boasts an unusual carved
figure-head of Granuaile, the famous 16th century Pirate Queen. Her name
comes from Norse mythology and means Home of the
Gods.
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Capitan Miranda -
Uruguay |
Length overall:
205’
Beam: 27’
Draft: 12’
Hull: Steel
Rig: Staysail
schooner
Year built: 1930
Home port:
Montevideo |
Uruguay’s big staysail schooner,
Capitan Miranda, has served her nation’s Navy for more than two decades.
Built in 1930 as a sailing cargo carrier, she was active in various trades
in Latin America after World War II. She became a hydrographic survey
vessel for the Uruguayan Navy during the 1960s, and in 1978 she became a
sailing ship again, with a modern schooner rig that was developed in the
1920s for racing yachts.
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Cuauhtmoc –
Mexico |
Length overall:
270’
Draft: 17’1”
Beam: 39’4”
Rig: Barque
Hull: Steel
Home
port: Vera Cruz
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This relatively new barque, named
for an Aztec emperor, brings an officer, crew and cadet complement of 185
to OpSail Miami from Vera Cruz. Cuauhtmoc was launched in Spain in 1982
and sailed home with Mexican Naval Academy cadets and
crew.
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Danmark – Denmark |
Length overall: 253’
Beam: 33’
Draft:
15’
Hull: Steel
Rig: Ship
Year built: 1933
Home port:
Copenhagen |
Launched in 1932 to train officers
for the Danish Merchant Navy, the steel-hulled, double-bottomed Danmark
was destined to have a significant impact upon U.S. military training.
Visiting the New York World’s Fair when war broke out in 1939, she and her
crew were offered to the Coast Guard. Modernization in 1959 cut the
Danmark’s capacity from 120 cadets to eighty. This 249-foot ship serves
the Danish marine Authority from her home port in
Copenhagen.
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Dar Mlodziezy – Poland |
Length overall: 360’
Beam:
45’9”
Draft: 20’7”
Hull: Steel
Rig: Ship
Year built:
1982
Home port: Gdynia |
Dar Mlodziezy was commissioned in
1982 to replace the Dar Pomorza. She is a full-rigged, 360-foot ship
designed by Polish architect Zygmunt Choren. Dar Mlodziezy was funded by
the contributions of elementary school children during the 1960s and
1970s. This is her first OpSail .
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Esmeralda –
Chile |
Length overall: 371’
Beam:
42’8”
Draft: 19’8”
Hull: Steel
Rig: Four-masted
barquentine
Year built: 1952-54
Home port:
Valparaiso |
The world’s second largest sailing
ship, Chile’s Esmeralda, 353 feet long with a mast height of 165 feet, was
launched in 1952. The four-mast barkentine, capable of twelve knots under
engine power, is armed with a quartet of 5.7-centimeter rapid-fire guns
and has participated in OpSail 1964, 1976 and
1986.
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Gloria –
Columbia |
Length overall: 249’
Beam:
34’8”
Draft: 16’4”
Hull: Steel
Rig: Barque
Year built:
1968
Home port: Cartegna |
From a new generation of tall
ships designed for cadet training, Columbia’s remarkably beautiful Gloria,
launched from Bilbao, Spain in 1968, recalls the classic German barks
built in the 1920s and 1930s. She carries a crew of ten officers, a
professional crew of fifty and seventy-five
cadets.
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Gazela of
Philadelphia – USA |
Length overall: 178’
Beam:
27’
Draft: 17’
Hull: Wood
Rig: Barquentine
Year built:
1883
Home port: Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania |
Gazela of Philadelphia, built in
1883, was still fishing the Grand Banks for cod in 1969, when she was the
last of the country’s square-rigged fishing schooners to be retired. Now,
she is probably the oldest and largest wood-hulled square-rigger still
actively plying the waves. Most of her hull’s oak and pine is original;
having been harvested from a forest especially planted in 1460 by Prince
Henry the Navigator. Owned by the Penn’s Landing Corporation of
Philadelphia, she is sailed and maintained by enthusiastic
volunteers.
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Guayas – Ecuador |
Length overall: 257’
Beam: 33’
Draft: 14’6”
Hull:
Steel
Rig: Barque
Year Built: 1977
Home port:
Guayaquil |
Built in 1977, the 914-ton
Guayas is a training ship for the Ecuadoran Navy and was christened in
honor of an 1841 steamship, the first to be constructed in South America.
As a participant in the 1980 Tall Ships Races, she earned the American
Sail Training Association Cutty Sark Trophy for international friendship.
Based in Guayaquil, the 257-foot-long three-mast bark carries eighty
cadets under the guidance of thirty-five officers and experienced
crew.
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Gorch Foch II -
Germany
Gorch Foch II is a three masted bark, 293' long,
and is the replacement for the original Gorch Foch (now the Ukrainian
Tovarishch). She was built in 1958 and serves as a school ship of the
German Navy. |
HMS Rose
– USA |
Length overall: 179’
Beam:
32’
Draft: 13’
Hull: Wood
Rig: Ship
Year built: 1970
Home
port: Bridgeport, Connecticut |
Built in 1970 in Canada, the HMS Rose was refurbished in
1991 to bring her up to par with U.S. Coast Guard standards. This
environmentally friendly vessel has 13,000 square feet of sail made from
recycled products. HMS Rose is an educational sailing school, which
operates out of Connecticut
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Kruzenshtern –
Russia |
Length overall: 376’
Beam: 46’1”
Draft: 23’5”
Hull:
Steel
Rig: Four-masted barque
Year built: 1926
Home port: St.
Petersburg |
This four-masted barque is the second-largest tall ship
in the world. During World War II Kruzenshtern was used as a barge to
transport supplies. At the end of the war, Kruzenshtern joined the Soviet
fleet and became a training vessel for the Soviet Ministry of
Fisheries.
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Libertad – Argentina |
Length overall: 356’
Beam:
45’3”
Draft: 21’9”
Hull: Steel
Rig: Full-rigged ship
Year
built: 1960
Home port: Buenos Aires |
| This full-rigged ship is one of
the largest tall ships in the world, with a 3,675-ton displacement.
Libertad participated in Operation Sail in 1964, 1976, 1986 and 1992.
Launched in 1956, she annually takes up to 120 four-year cadets on lengthy
training cruises, frequently stopping in foreign ports and participating
in worldwide gatherings of sailing ships. In 1966 while crossing the
Atlantic, she used all 28,500 square feet of her sails to set a new record
of eight days and twelve hours. |
Pride of Baltimore
II – USA |
Length overall: 170’
Beam:
26’
Draft: 12’4”
Hull: Wood
Rig: Topsail schooner
Year built:
1988
Home port: Baltimore, Maryland |
Pride of Baltimore is a topsail schooner operated by
Pride of Baltimore, Inc. and owned by the state of Maryland. She functions
as an educational vessel, passing on her history and knowledge to the
young cadets that operate this nineteenth century
ship.
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Pochaina -
Ukraine
The 65' brigantine Pochaina and the schooner
Bat'kivschyna belong to Dmytro Birioukovitch and Roman Maliarchuk who are
letting the world know about Ukraine and furthering their own sailing
interests by sailing around the globe and acting as goodwill ambassadors
for Ukraine.
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USCG Barque
Eagle |
Length overall: 295’
Beam:
39’
Draft: 17’
Hull: Steel
Rig: Barque
Year built:
1936
Home port: New London,
Connecticut |
Built as one of the five German sail-training barks
available as reparations after World War II, Eagle’s primary mission is
training U.S. Coast Guard cadets. Through practical application, cadets
learn navigation, engineering, and ship maneuvering. The Eagle brings 12
officers, 38 crew and 150 cadets from the Coast Guard Academy to Miami. In
addition, they set some 20,000 square feet of sail and control more than
20 miles of rigging lines while under
way.
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Simon Bolivar –
Venezuela |
Length overall: 270’
Beam: 35’
Draft: 14’6”
Hull:
Steel
Rig: Barque
Year built: 1980
Home port: La
Guaira |
Superbly designed and built Simon Bolivar, though
launched as recently as 1979, has become a familiar participant in Tall
Ship events. Her frequent transatlantic voyages and tours of ports in the
Americas have gained a wide following for the class “A” square-rigger,
exclusively used as a training vessel for the Venezuelan
Navy.
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HMS Bounty
Length overall: 169’
Beam:
30’
Draft: 13’
Hull: Wood
Rig: Ship
Year built: 1960
Home
port: Fall River, Massachusetts
Built in Nova Scotia in 1960 the HMS
Bounty was featured in the 1962 MGM movie Mutiny on the Bounty, starring
Marlon Brando. Turner Broadcasting later acquired the full-rigged ship
which was then donated to the chamber of commerce of Fall River,
Massachusetts. HMS Bounty now has an educational partnership program with
the Fall River Public School System and also offers sail
training. |
Picton Castle – USA
Length overall: 148’
Beam:
24’
Draft: 14’5”
Hull: Steel
Rig: Three-masted Barque
Year
built: 1928
Home port: Cook Islands
Built in 1928, the Barque Picton Castle
was completely overhauled and outfitted for tropical ocean voyaging as a
training ship in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, during a 2 million-dollar refit
in 1996-97. The ship is registered in Avatiu, Rarotonga Cook Islands,
headquarters for her South Pacific
voyages. |
