The vessel DAR MLODZIEZY is a Sailing Vessel built in 1982 (40 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Poland.
Mercedes, a two-masted square-rigged Dutch sailing ship, is one of the newest vessels in the international fleet of tall ships having been built in 2005.
The small vessels flanking them add perspective to these huge vessels. Sky replaceed with one of my own images.
Kampen N a Dutch owned tall ship leaves Falmouth Harbour racing to Fowey after the Falmouth Tall Ships regatta 2014.
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Stavros S Niarchos & Challenger 4 beside Clougney Lifeboat, three very different sea vessels each serving their own purpose. at the Falmouth tall ships regatta in 2014.
The vessel DAR MLODZIEZY is a Sailing Vessel built in 1982 (40 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Poland.
Mercedes, a two-masted square-rigged Dutch sailing ship, is one of the newest vessels in the international fleet of tall ships having been built in 2005.
The small vessels flanking them add perspective to these huge vessels. Sky replaceed with one of my own images.
Jolie Brise is the truly world famous, 24 metre, Gaff Rigged Pilot Cutter. Built in 1913, some of her many claims to fame include: three times overall winner of the Fastnet Race; daring rescue of the crew of the Adriana in the 1932 Newport-Bermuda race; was the last sailing vessel to carry the Royal Mail under sail; and overall winner of several Tall Ships Races. She has been operated, maintained and owned by Dauntsey’s School since 1977. Over the last 49 years, with Dauntsey’s students she has sailed 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle; has travelled as far East as St Petersburg in Russia; as far South as Western Sahara and as far West as South Carolina, and has covered in excess of 175,000 nautical miles.
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Jolie Brise is the truly world famous, 24 metre, Gaff Rigged Pilot Cutter. Built in 1913, some of her many claims to fame include: three times overall winner of the Fastnet Race; daring rescue of the crew of the Adriana in the 1932 Newport-Bermuda race; was the last sailing vessel to carry the Royal Mail under sail; and overall winner of several Tall Ships Races. She has been operated, maintained and owned by Dauntsey’s School since 1977. Over the last 49 years, with Dauntsey’s students she has sailed 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle; has travelled as far East as St Petersburg in Russia; as far South as Western Sahara and as far West as South Carolina, and has covered in excess of 175,000 nautical miles.
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Stavros S Niarchos is a British brig-rigged tall ship, now renamed Sunset. She was previously owned and operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust and was primarily designed to provide young people with the opportunity to undertake voyages as character-building exercises, rather than pure sail-training
Morgenster is a 48m traditionally rigged as a brig, with square sails on her two masts. Morgenster (Morning Star) has taken part in many International Tall Ships Races and is proven as a fast sailor. This sail training vessel is well known in Holland, where she is based, and is making a name for herself further afield as an adventure charter vessel.
Tall ship Atyla is a two-masted wooden schooner handmade in Spain between 1980 and 1984. She was designed by Esteban Vicente Jimenez to look like the Spanish vessels from the 1800s and built with the intention of circumnavigating the earth following the Magellan–Elcano route and then become a training ship.
Barnabas, a dipping lugger, is the only survivor from St Ives of the thousand-strong fleet of lug rigged seine and drift net fishing boats registered at Cornish ports at the end of the 19th century.
Barnabas was first registered on 28th October 1881 as a Class 2 pilchard boat, with the number 634 SS. Later, she was re-registered as a Class 1 mackerel driver and her number switched to SS 634. The number is said to have been chosen as it corresponded to the hymn “Will Your Anchor Hold” in the Methodist hymn book used at the time.
Eda Frandsen was built in Denmark in 1938, starting life fishing for lobsters. She was rebuilt and refitted as a charter vessel between 1991-96 to combine her natural seaworthiness and reliability with romance and tradition. Beautifully kept and maintained, the level of craftsmanship and detail is first class, with original features and unique detail.
Pelican of London is a sail training ship based in the United Kingdom. Built in 1948 as Pelican she served as an Arctic trawler and then coastal trading vessel named Kadett until 1995. In 2007 the ship was completed after many years of being re-built as a sail-training ship.
Two tall ships sailing in Falmouth Harbour, Dar Mlodziezy has been owned by the Gdynia Maritime Academy since she was built in 1982. Her name means “the gift of youth” . The inauguration of sailing ship Mercedes was in May 2005 and she is one of the youngest ships in the international fleet of tall ships.
Kaskelot is a three-masted barque and one of the largest remaining wooden ships in commission. The Kaskelot was built in 1948 by J. Ring-Andersen for the Royal Greenland Trading Company, to carry supplies to remote coastal settlements in East Greenland. She is pictured here in Charlestown Harbour, Cornwall
Stavros S Niarchos is a British brig-rigged tall ship, now renamed Sunset. She was previously owned and operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust and was primarily designed to provide young people with the opportunity to undertake voyages as character-building exercises, rather than pure sail-training
Georg Stage, Fryderyk Chopin & Dar Meodziezy sit calmly alongside Falmouth Docks in the late afternoon.
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Capitán Miranda (ROU 20) is a three-masted staysail schooner of the Uruguayan Navy. Originally acquired by the Uruguayan Navy as a survey ship in 1930, the ship remained in service until 1976 in this role. Destined for the shipbreakers, the vessel was repurposed as a training ship in 1978. Here she is moored alongside Falmouth docks.
Watercolour painting of a tallship sailing past a lighthouse with at night
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