Tall Ships

Square riggers and sail training. The Tall Ships Races, Operation Sail, the Danmark and the Sir Winston Churchill, cadets aloft on a yard, and the ships kept sailing as schools long after cargo left them. Also the losses, because sail training has its own casualty list.

Part of Sailing

103 moments in this segment.

  1. - Sedov (ship, 1921) and Kruzenshtern (ship, 1926), Sète, France. The Sedov (Russian four-masted barque, 1921) and in the background at left the Kruzenshtern (Russian four-masted barque, 1926), moored at the Algiers Embankment. Sète, Hérault, France. Kruzenshtern, a four masted barque launched in 1926, was built for the Flying P-Liner fleet of F. Laeisz and now sails as a training ship. She is among the handful of the last commercial square riggers still going to sea.
  2. - Peking moored in the Thames. The Peking moored in the river Thames, London - the ship was built 1911. 3191 tons. 322.1 x 47.1 x 26.5. Allocated to Italian Government, 1919.
  3. - German Cadets in Training. The German cadet ship Deutschland is filmed at sea fully rigged on 16 August 1934, with cadets working the sails. Deutschland was a full-rigged sail training ship built in 1927 for the German merchant marine. Movietone's item is silent shot material.
  4. - Torbay To Lisbon Race - Tall Ships. Sailing ships race from Torbay to Lisbon on 12 July 1956, run as a handicap in two classes, over and under 100 tons. This was the first of the Sail Training Association's races, the event that grew into the Tall Ships Races. Movietone films the start off Devon.
  5. - Gorch Fock (Schiff, 1958) in Flensburg. The Gorch Fock is a tall ship of the German Navy (Deutsche Marine). In this picture she is under way leaving flensburg harbour, Mars sails and headsails unpacked and ready. Gorch Fock, launched in 1958, is the German Navy's sail training barque and a fixture of the Tall Ships Races and of Kieler Woche.
  6. - Gorch Fock (Schiff, 1958) im Sonnenaufgang 02. The Gorch Fock is a tall ship of the German Navy (Deutsche Marine). In this picture she is under anchor near the coast of portugal, the photo was taken at sunrise. Gorch Fock, launched in 1958, is the German Navy's sail training barque and a fixture of the Tall Ships Races and of Kieler Woche.
  7. - Tall Ship For Adventure. The sail training schooner Sir Winston Churchill is named at Hull on 17 March 1966. She cost 120,000 pounds and Movietone reports her as the first three-master built in Britain for training young people. She was built for the Sail Training Association.
  8. - Tall Ships. Cutting material from the 1968 Tall Ships Race at Harwich, showing Kenya Jacaranda and Aloha of Hamble, boys learning knots, work on deck and hands aloft in the rigging. The race was open to sea cadets and trainees of all nations. Six minutes of unedited colour shots rather than a finished newsreel.
  9. - All At Sea. The schooners Malcolm Miller and Sir Winston Churchill sail together for the first time on 29 April 1968, up the Thames to the heart of London. Both were built for the Sail Training Association to teach young people seamanship under sail. The same reel opens with a fibreglass cruiser launched sideways into the water for its Lloyds certificate.
  10. - Tall Ships (Colour). Movietone joins nineteen trainees aboard Kenya Jacaranda at Harwich on 8 August 1968 for the North Sea crossing to Kristiansund in that year's Tall Ships Race. Most of them had never handled anything larger than a dinghy. The race was open to sea cadets and trainees from all nations.
  11. - Tall Ships. More cutting material from the 1968 Tall Ships Race, taken at sea and on deck, with cadets working the ship and long shots of the East Goodwin light vessel. Kenya Jacaranda and Aloha of Hamble are among the ships identified. The reel is silent unedited colour.
  12. - German Sail Trainer. The German sail training ship Gorch Fock anchors near Tower Pier on a courtesy visit to London on 27 August 1970, having just taken part in the Tall Ships Race to the Canary Islands. Gorch Fock was launched in 1958 for the West German navy and is a barque of the same design family as Eagle. Movietone films her in the Pool of London.
  13. - Tall Ships. Twenty-two minutes of Movietone tall ships material carrying only a 1970 date in the record. The library holds long reels of unedited footage alongside its cut stories. Nothing further is stated about the ships or the port.
  14. - Tall Ships Race - In Colour. Forty-four training ships leave Cowes on 21 August 1972 for Skaw in Denmark, carrying some 1,500 cadets and trainees. The race was sponsored by the Sail Training Association, which founded the series in 1956 to put young people on square riggers. Movietone's colour coverage follows the fleet off the Isle of Wight.
  15. - 8-72 The Beginning Of The Tall Ships Race. Square rigged ships set off from the Isle of Wight at the start of the 1972 Tall Ships Race on 16 August. The race was run by the Sail Training Association and took the fleet from Cowes to Skaw in Denmark. AP films the start line from close in.
  16. - Tall Ships Race. The Duke of Edinburgh takes the salute from the Royal Yacht Britannia at the Parade of Sail in the Solent on 12 August 1974, the climax of that year's Tall Ships Race. Ships from many countries gathered for the parade after the racing finished. Movietone films the fleet passing Britannia.
  17. - Tall Ships Race. Six minutes of unnarrated colour material from the 1974 Tall Ships Race, much of it shot aboard the Italian ship Amerigo Vespucci, the largest in the fleet, including views from her crosstrees and of Britannia in the distance. Amerigo Vespucci was launched in 1931 and is still the Italian navy's sail training ship. The reel is cutting material rather than a finished story.
  18. - Clipper Race. Tall ships from many countries gather on the Thames for the Port of London Clipper Regatta, and Edward Heath starts the London to Sydney race on 7 September 1975. Movietone reports the aim as beating the 69 day passage set by a clipper more than a century earlier. Heath was himself an ocean racing skipper who had won the Sydney Hobart in 1969.
  19. - Amerigo vespucci 1976 nyc aufgetakelt. A tall ship in New York Harbor: Amerigo Vespucci at the ship parade in the NYC harbor at the United States Bicentennial festivities. Amerigo Vespucci was built in 1930 at the naval shipyard at Castellammare di Stabia near Naples and launched on 22 February 1931: a full rigged ship of 82.4 metres on the hull, 101 metres overall including bowsprit, with three steel masts, 26 traditional canvas sails and roughly 2,635 square metres of sail area. She still trains Italian Naval Academy midshipmen, her complement rising to about 450 with cadets aboard, and from 2023 she made a world tour visiting 36 ports in 32 countries.
  20. - Tall Ship Festival In Newport. Highlights from the tall ship festival at Newport, Rhode Island, on 2 July 1976. The gathering was part of Operation Sail, staged for the United States bicentennial, which brought square riggers from around the world to American ports that summer. The main Operation Sail parade ran up the Hudson on 4 July.
  21. - De Sea Cloud op het Noordzeekanaal, Bestanddeelnr 930-9514. Photographed 1980. Sea Cloud was built in 1931 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel as Hussar V for Marjorie Merriweather Post and Edward F. Hutton, at the time the largest private yacht in the world: a four masted barque of 360 feet with a gilded eagle figurehead. Chartered by the US Navy between 1942 and 1944 as a Coast Guard weather observation vessel under Lieutenant Carlton Skinner, she carried the first racially integrated crew in the United States armed forces since the Civil War.
  22. - Vertrek tall-ships enkele tall-ships op het Noordzeekanaal, Bestanddeelnr 930-9593. Photographed 1980. Rafael Trujillo bought her in 1955 and renamed her Angelita.
  23. - Tall-shipps links de Krunenstern, derde van links de Amerigo Vespucci, Bestanddeelnr 930. Photographed 1980. Amerigo Vespucci was built in 1930 at the naval shipyard at Castellammare di Stabia near Naples and launched on 22 February 1931: a full rigged ship of 82.4 metres on the hull, 101 metres overall including bowsprit, with three steel masts, 26 traditional canvas sails and roughly 2,635 square metres of sail area. She still trains Italian Naval Academy midshipmen, her complement rising to about 450 with cadets aboard, and from 2023 she made a world tour visiting 36 ports in 32 countries.
  24. - NRP Sagres 2. A port bow view of the Portuguese three mast, training bark, SAGRES (A-520), as it takes part in the "Parade of Sails" during the Tricentennial Festival for the city of Norfolk. There are many small sails boats near the SAGRES. Sagres, built in 1937, is the Portuguese Navy's sail training barque. Portugal was present at the founding of the Tall Ships Races through Ambassador Pedro Teotónio Pereira, who began discussions with the retired London solicitor Bernard Morgan in 1953.
  25. - NRP Sagres 1. A port bow view of the Portuguese three mast, as it takes part in the "Parade of Sails" during the Tricentennial Festival for the city of Norfolk. There are many small sails boats near the SAGRES. Sagres, built in 1937, is the Portuguese Navy's sail training barque. Portugal was present at the founding of the Tall Ships Races through Ambassador Pedro Teotónio Pereira, who began discussions with the retired London solicitor Bernard Morgan in 1953.
  26. - Usa: Arrival Of Sailing Ship \"Danmark\". The Danish full-rigged ship Danmark arrives at Washington on 14 September 1995 and sails the Potomac under canvas. Danmark is an ocean-going school ship for Danish sea cadets, built in 1932, and she trained United States Coast Guard cadets during the Second World War. AP films her crew aloft and the ship under sail.
  27. - Germany: Fleet Of Ships Participate In \"Baltic Sail\" Event. An international fleet leaves Rostock on 10 July 1996 for the Baltic Sail, a 760 mile voyage to St Petersburg lasting eight or nine days, with about 105 vessels of all sizes taking part. The Mexican training ship Cuauhtemoc was among them. AP films the preparations in near-perfect conditions.
  28. - US Navy -N-6639M-207 Ships sail into downtown Norfolk, to participate in Norfolk Harbor Fest. Bluenose II sails into Norfolk Harbor, to participate in Norfolk Harbor Fest. The 30th Annual Harbor Fest included a Parade of Sail with more than 700 water vessels, honoring Capt. Lane Briggs and officially kicked off the weekend celebration. Bluenose II is a Nova Scotian reproduction of the Grand Banks fishing and racing schooner Bluenose, one of the replicas built to sail rather than to sit.
  29. - Крузенштерн Radich. 2007, photographed under sail. Kruzenshtern, a four masted barque launched in 1926, was built for the Flying P-Liner fleet of F. Laeisz and now sails as a training ship. She is among the handful of the last commercial square riggers still going to sea.
  30. - StenaGermanica+Sedov 0258. 2007, photographed alongside in port. Sedov, launched in 1921, is one of the largest traditional sailing vessels still going to sea, working as a training ship. Only a handful of the four masted barques built for commercial cargo are still rigged and sailing rather than preserved alongside.
  31. - Tall ships sailing race ends, competitors from around the world. The 2007 Tall Ships Race ends at Szczecin on 7 August, with ships in the harbour, crews aloft and dancing on deck before sailing away. Szczecin was the final port of that year's race. AP films the ships leaving as much as the crowds.
  32. - The Eagle tall ship sets sail on a tour of Latin America. The United States Coast Guard barque Eagle passes El Morro at San Juan on 17 June 2007 at the start of a Latin American tour, with executive officer Jeff Wisener interviewed aboard. Eagle was built at Hamburg in 1936 as the German cadet ship Horst Wessel and was taken by the United States as war reparations in 1946. AP cuts to black and white footage of her launch under the earlier flag.
  33. - Georges Island Lighthouse. Photographed alongside in port, 2008. Schooners carry two or more masts, all fore and aft, with the aftermost equal to or taller than the rest. They fill Classes B and C of the Tall Ships Races, the 9.14 to 40 metre range below the Class A square riggers.
  34. - Kruzenshtern 1 of 2. Russian tall ship «Крузенштерн» (Kruzenshtern) with broken foremast on a visit to her place of birth Bremerhaven. , Camera Nikon D40x. Kruzenshtern, a four masted barque launched in 1926, was built for the Flying P-Liner fleet of F. Laeisz and now sails as a training ship. She is among the handful of the last commercial square riggers still going to sea.
  35. - Sea Cloud & TCG Gemlik (F-492). Sailing yacht Sea Cloud & Turkish frigate TCG Gemlik (F-492) at Bodrum on July 1, 2009. Sea Cloud was built in 1931 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel as Hussar V for Marjorie Merriweather Post and Edward F. Hutton, at the time the largest private yacht in the world: a four masted barque of 360 feet with a gilded eagle figurehead. Chartered by the US Navy between 1942 and 1944 as a Coast Guard weather observation vessel under Lieutenant Carlton Skinner, she carried the first racially integrated crew in the United States armed forces since the Civil War.
  36. - Fragata ARA Libertad (Q-2). Photographed in detail on deck, 2009. The Latin American and Spanish naval training fleet, including Esmeralda, Guayas, Cuauhtémoc, Simón Bolívar, Libertad and Juan Sebastián de Elcano, keeps large barquentines and four masted schooners sailing with cadet crews and makes up a large part of any international port parade.
  37. - Dar Pomorza, Gdynia, , 3. 2009, photographed as preserved. Sail Training International runs the races annually in European waters, with two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles and a cruise in company between them. The host ports are where the fleet is actually photographed, because at sea the ships are scattered over hundreds of miles.
  38. - Dar Pomorza, Gdynia, , 4. 2009, photographed as preserved. Sail Training International runs the races annually in European waters, with two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles and a cruise in company between them. The host ports are where the fleet is actually photographed, because at sea the ships are scattered over hundreds of miles.
  39. - Zaglowiec Siedow-Gdynia 2009. Żaglowiec Siedows podczas Tall Ship Races Gdynia 2009. Sail Training International runs the races annually in European waters, with two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles and a cruise in company between them. The host ports are where the fleet is actually photographed, because at sea the ships are scattered over hundreds of miles.
  40. - Mir, Gdynia, , 2. STS Mir during the final parade of Tall Ships' Races, Gdynia, 2009. Sail Training International runs the races annually in European waters, with two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles and a cruise in company between them. The host ports are where the fleet is actually photographed, because at sea the ships are scattered over hundreds of miles.
  41. - Hanse Sail 2010 - Viermastbark „Sedow“ bugsiert von Schlepper Fairplay II. Photographed 2010. Sedov, launched in 1921, is one of the largest traditional sailing vessels still going to sea, working as a training ship. Only a handful of the four masted barques built for commercial cargo are still rigged and sailing rather than preserved alongside.
  42. - Stad Amsterda75. Stad Amsterdam,Start w regatach Kristiansand - Operacja Żagiel 2010 (The Tall Ships' Races 2010). At minimum half of every crew must be young people aged 15 to 25, which is the whole point of the event.
  43. - Stad Amsterda Mir 1. Stad Amsterdam,Start w regatach Kristiansand - Operacja Żagiel 2010. Bernard Morgan, a retired London solicitor, and the Portuguese Ambassador Pedro Teotónio Pereira began discussions in 1953, and the first race was held in 1956 between twenty of the world's remaining large sailing ships. Public interest led the organisers to found Sail Training International.
  44. - Stad Amsterda Mir 2. Stad Amsterdam,Start w regatach Kristiansand - Operacja Żagiel 2010. At minimum half of every crew must be young people aged 15 to 25, which is the whole point of the event.
  45. - Liffey Swim - 2010 Dublin Maritime Festival. Photographed 2010. The Tall Ships Races run two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles with a cruise in company between them, and the port calls draw the crowds that pay for the whole thing. Class A covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall, with Classes B, C and D from 9.14 to 40 metres.
  46. - Viermastbark-schoolschip 'L' Avenir'. Photographed as preserved, 2010. Class A of the Tall Ships Races covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall. The fleet that still sails is overwhelmingly naval and merchant marine training ships, because nothing else can justify the crew.
  47. - IMO MIR. De MIR bij SAIL-IN 2010 op het Noordzeekanaal. The Baltic and Black Sea training fleet, including Mir, keeps full rigged ships and barques working with cadet crews, and supplies much of the Class A entry in the Tall Ships Races.
  48. - Mast Climbing on a Sail Training Ship. Trainees climb 109-foot masts aboard a sail training ship on Lake Superior. Going aloft is how a square rigger's sails are handed and furled, and every trainee is taught to climb before the ship sails. The camera follows the climb from deck to crosstrees.
  49. - Hobart waterfront Nov 2011 - 7. Hobart waterfront, Tasmania, Australia, November 2011 - 7. Image shows sail training vessel "Lady Nelson" in front of Elizabeth Street Pier. Photo credit: Tony Rees. The requirement that at minimum half of each crew be young people aged 15 to 25 is the whole point of the Tall Ships Races, and it is why the fleet is photographable as people rather than only as rigs.
  50. - Majestic sailing ships anchor at Irish port. Tall ships lie at Waterford, Ireland, on 30 June 2011, among them Christian Radich and Lord Nelson, with crews climbing the masts and rigging. Watch leader Friedhelm Arntz speaks about the work aloft. Lord Nelson was built so that disabled and able-bodied crew could sail her together.
  51. - Star of India Setting Sails. Star of India sets her sails in San Diego. She was built at Ramsey on the Isle of Man in 1863 as the full-rigged ship Euterpe, later cut down to a barque, and she is the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still sailing. The Maritime Museum of San Diego takes her out under sail on occasion rather than keeping her permanently moored.
  52. - Tallship moored in Toronto's Eastern Gap, 2011-08-23 -a. Photographed alongside in port, 2011. Bernard Morgan, a retired London solicitor, and the Portuguese Ambassador Pedro Teotónio Pereira began discussions in 1953, and the first race was held in 1956 between twenty of the world's remaining large sailing ships. Public interest led the organisers to found Sail Training International.
  53. - U.S. Navy Concert band - -N-CI293-186. Photographed alongside in port, 2012. Bernard Morgan, a retired London solicitor, and the Portuguese Ambassador Pedro Teotónio Pereira began discussions in 1953, and the first race was held in 1956 between twenty of the world's remaining large sailing ships. Public interest led the organisers to found Sail Training International.
  54. - Flickr - Official U.S. Navy Imagery - Tall ships make their way down the Elizabeth River. Photographed under sail, 2012. At minimum half of every crew must be young people aged 15 to 25, which is the whole point of the event.
  55. - Castlegate Quay, Stockton on Tees. Castlegate Quay viewed from Teesdale Park on the south bank of the River Tees. The replica of Captain James Cook's tall ship, HM Bark Endeavour and the Teesside Princess river cruise boat are visible at the quayside. Replicas are built to sail rather than to sit: Mayflower II crossed the Atlantic in 1957 under Alan Villiers in 54 days, a full scale America was launched at Boothbay in 1967, and Pride of Baltimore II followed the loss of the first in 1988 with modern safety improvements.
  56. - Flickr - El coleccionista de instantes - La Fragata A.R.A. "Libertad" de la armada argent. Photographed 2012. Naval school ships and sailing replicas are what keep square rig at sea now that its commercial work has gone. The Tall Ships Races began in 1956 between twenty of the world's remaining large sailing ships, and the public interest they drew led the organisers to found Sail Training International.
  57. - OpSail 2012 -G-ZZ999-001. The Blue Angels performed two spectacular airshows during the Sailabration event. DHS Photo by Barry Bahler. The Tall Ships Races run two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles with a cruise in company between them, and the port calls draw the crowds that pay for the whole thing. Class A covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall, with Classes B, C and D from 9.14 to 40 metres.
  58. - 0 Krusenstern - 1er juin 2013 à Dunkerque. The Russian four-masted barque Kruzenshtern or Krusenstern (Russian: Крузенштерн) formely Padua, built in 1926 at Bremerhaven-Wesermünde in Germany and photographed on June 1, 2013 during the large maritime gathering in Dunkirk. Kruzenshtern, a four masted barque launched in 1926, was built for the Flying P-Liner fleet of F. Laeisz and now sails as a training ship. She is among the handful of the last commercial square riggers still going to sea.
  59. - Cisne Branco i Alexander von Humboldt II - Duana P1200961. El Cisne Branco al port de Barcelona per la Mercè 2013. Alexander von Humboldt is a German sail training barque, recognisable in any Tall Ships fleet by her green sails, and a regular in the races run by Sail Training International.
  60. - RAN-IFR 2013 D1 37. Photographs taken during day 1 of the Royal Australian Navy International Fleet Review 2013. The HM Bark Endeavour Replica entering Sydney Harbour. Naval school ships and sailing replicas are what keep square rig at sea now that its commercial work has gone. The Tall Ships Races began in 1956 between twenty of the world's remaining large sailing ships, and the public interest they drew led the organisers to found Sail Training International.
  61. - RAN-IFR 2013 D2 123. Photographs taken during day 2 of the Royal Australian Navy International Fleet Review 2013. The HM Bark Endeavour Replica on Sydney Harbour, watching the warship arrivals. Naval school ships and sailing replicas are what keep square rig at sea now that its commercial work has gone. The Tall Ships Races began in 1956 between twenty of the world's remaining large sailing ships, and the public interest they drew led the organisers to found Sail Training International.
  62. - RAN-IFR 2013 D3 120. Photographs taken during day 3 of the Royal Australian Navy International Fleet Review 2013. The barque James Craig and other vessels on Sydney Harbour. Class A of the Tall Ships Races covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall. The fleet that still sails is overwhelmingly naval and merchant marine training ships, because nothing else can justify the crew.
  63. - RAN-IFR 2013 D3 192. Photographs taken during day 3 of the Royal Australian Navy International Fleet Review 2013. The barque James Craig and other ships on Sydney Harbour. Class A of the Tall Ships Races covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall. The fleet that still sails is overwhelmingly naval and merchant marine training ships, because nothing else can justify the crew.
  64. - RAN-IFR 2013 D1 15. Photographs taken during day 1 of the Royal Australian Navy International Fleet Review 2013. The RAN sail training ship Young Endeavour leaving Sydney Harbour on 3 October to rendezvous with the tallship fleet. Australian and Canadian sail training vessels such as Leeuwin and Young Endeavour run the same model as the European fleet, taking young crews to sea under square or schooner rig. Sail Training International requires at minimum half of every crew in its races to be aged 15 to 25.
  65. - RAN-IFR 2013 D3 19. Photographs taken during day 3 of the Royal Australian Navy International Fleet Review 2013. The tall ship South Passage departing from the Australian National Maritime Museum. The preserved fleet is where the archive's earlier chapters are still photographable: Cutty Sark at Greenwich with Gipsy Moth IV alongside, Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport, Pommern at Mariehamn, Vasa in her hall in Stockholm and the James Caird at Dulwich College since 1985.
  66. - RAN-IFR 2013 D1 18. Photographs taken during day 1 of the Royal Australian Navy International Fleet Review 2013. The RAN sail training ship Young Endeavour sailing past South Head on 3 October en route to rendezvous with the tallship fleet. Australian and Canadian sail training vessels such as Leeuwin and Young Endeavour run the same model as the European fleet, taking young crews to sea under square or schooner rig. Sail Training International requires at minimum half of every crew in its races to be aged 15 to 25.
  67. - South Street Seaport from East River 01. Schooner Pioneer pulling out of South Street Seaport, seen from New York Water Taxi on the East River. Star of India, Balclutha, Wavertree, Elissa, Glenlee, Falls of Clyde and Peking are iron and steel sailing cargo ships preserved in American and British museums, the surviving hulls of the trade that clippers and windjammers worked before steam took it.
  68. - Westward The Tall Ships (1964). Tall ships lie in Lisbon harbour in 1964 before starting a race to Bermuda, watched from the Portuguese president's yacht by President Tomas. Aerial shots pick out the Portuguese barque Sagres. Sagres was built in 1937 at Hamburg as Albert Leo Schlageter and came to Portugal in 1961.
  69. - Tall Ships In Denmark (1966). Aerial views of three sail training ships off Denmark in 1966: the Danish Danmark and the Norwegian Christian Radich and Sorlandet, with the British schooner Sir Winston Churchill in Frederikshavn harbour. Denmark, Norway and Britain all kept square riggers and schooners in service for cadet training long after commercial sail ended. Pathe holds the material as unissued.
  70. - Selected Originals - Training Schooner Sets Sail (1966). Cutting material from 1966 showing the schooner Sir Winston Churchill leaving Hull for sea, with her boy crew working the ship. Sir Winston Churchill was built in 1966 for the Sail Training Association and was the first three-masted schooner built in Britain for training young people. Pathe's reel is out-takes rather than the finished story.
  71. - \"Every Inch Sailors\"! (1933). Cadets stand in the rigging of the training ship HMS Worcester at Greenhithe in 1933 before Sir Percy MacKinnon presents prizes on the lower deck. Worcester trained officers for the merchant service, and Pathe's title calls her the nursery of the Mercantile Marine. The ship is an old three-masted sailing vessel moored in the Thames.
  72. - World's Last Sailing Ships Meet At Saint Malo (1961). Sailing ships lie at anchor at St Malo in 1961, with crews aloft in the rigging and one ship filmed entering harbour. Pathe's title calls them the world's last sailing ships. The reel is shot material with documentation held on file rather than a narrated story.
  73. - Tall Ships Race (1962). Italian naval crew prepare Amerigo Vespucci at Dartmouth in 1962 for the Tall Ships Race from Torbay to Dieppe by way of Ushant, with the West German Gorch Fock alongside. The ships pass the Royal Yacht Britannia on the way to the start. Amerigo Vespucci was launched in 1931 and remains the Italian navy's training ship.
  74. - Sail Training Aboard The Niagara. Captain Wesley Heerssen talks about why the brig Niagara runs a sail training programme. Niagara is a reconstruction of Oliver Hazard Perry's 1813 flagship and sails out of Erie, Pennsylvania. Square rig needs crew in numbers, which is one reason sail training and square riggers stayed together after commercial square rig ended.
  75. - Segelschiff MIR in Sant-Petersburg.IMG 3552WI. Photographed under sail, 2014. Sail festivals at Baltic and North Sea ports gather the surviving square riggers in one basin for a few days a year. Class A of the Tall Ships Races covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall, with Classes B, C and D running from 9.14 to 40 metres.
  76. - Segelschiff MIR in Sankt-Petersburg...IMG 3678BE. Photographed 2014. Sail festivals at Baltic and North Sea ports gather the surviving square riggers in one basin for a few days a year. Class A of the Tall Ships Races covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall, with Classes B, C and D running from 9.14 to 40 metres.
  77. - Bluenose II visits Sydney 0006. 2015. Bluenose II is a Nova Scotian reproduction of the Grand Banks fishing and racing schooner Bluenose, one of the replicas built to sail rather than to sit.
  78. - Bluenose II visits Sydney 0007. 2015. Bluenose II is a Nova Scotian reproduction of the Grand Banks fishing and racing schooner Bluenose, one of the replicas built to sail rather than to sit.
  79. - Leeuwin II, Fremantle, 2015. Leeuwin II entering the inner harbour of Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia, at the completion of her first day sail on the opening day of her summer day sail season. The requirement that at minimum half of each crew be young people aged 15 to 25 is the whole point of the Tall Ships Races, and it is why the fleet is photographable as people rather than only as rigs.
  80. - Imo young endevour. De YOUNG ENDEAVOUR bij Sail Amsterdam 2015. The Tall Ships Races run two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles with a cruise in company between them, and the port calls draw the crowds that pay for the whole thing. Class A covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall, with Classes B, C and D from 9.14 to 40 metres.
  81. - Tall ship on training tour for Spanish navy. The Spanish navy training ship Juan Sebastian de Elcano lies at the Callao naval base in Peru on 18 April 2015, on her 86th training cruise, and her captain Enrique Torres receives the Spanish ambassador aboard. Elcano is a four-masted topsail schooner launched in 1927 and has been Spain's cadet ship ever since. AP films the figurehead, the deck and the chart of her ports of call.
  82. - The Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana) transom of Spirit of Bermuda, 2016. Photographed 2016. The requirement that at minimum half of each crew be young people aged 15 to 25 is the whole point of the Tall Ships Races, and it is why the fleet is photographable as people rather than only as rigs.
  83. - Bluenose Masts 1. The Bluenose II is a 1963 replica of the original Bluenose racing schooner from 1921. The original Bluenose was undefeated in its races for the International Fisherman's Trophy, only to be wrecked in 1946 off the coast of Haiti. Bluenose II is a Nova Scotian reproduction of the Grand Banks fishing and racing schooner Bluenose, one of the replicas built to sail rather than to sit.
  84. - Nova Scotia DSC08050 - Alexander Von Humboldt II & HMCS Oriole. Photographed alongside in port, 2017. Alexander von Humboldt is a German sail training barque, recognisable in any Tall Ships fleet by her green sails, and a regular in the races run by Sail Training International.
  85. - Nova Scotia DSC08063 - Spirt of Bermuda. The Spirit of Bermuda is a modern-built Bermuda sloop. She is a replica of a Royal Navy sloop-of-war. Launched: August 2006 Draft: 2.9 m (9.5ft) Length: 34.1 m (112ft); 26.2 m (86ft) waterline. Replicas are built to sail rather than to sit: Mayflower II crossed the Atlantic in 1957 under Alan Villiers in 54 days, a full scale America was launched at Boothbay in 1967, and Pride of Baltimore II followed the loss of the first in 1988 with modern safety improvements.
  86. - Halifax DSC08310 - Spirit of Bermuda & Spirit of South Carolina. The Spirit of Bermuda is a modern-built Bermuda sloop. She is a replica of a Royal Navy sloop-of-war. Launched: August 2006 Draft: 2.9 m (9.5ft) Length: 34.1 m (112ft); 26.2 m (86ft) waterline Spirit of South Carolina: Built in 2006 and is 42.7 m (140 ft) in length. Replicas are built to sail rather than to sit: Mayflower II crossed the Atlantic in 1957 under Alan Villiers in 54 days, a full scale America was launched at Boothbay in 1967, and Pride of Baltimore II followed the loss of the first in 1988 with modern safety improvements.
  87. - Fair Jeanne - Laslovarga. Tall Ship Fair Jeanne is a Canadian sail training ship built and registered in Ottawa, Ontario. Pictured on Canada 150 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The requirement that at minimum half of each crew be young people aged 15 to 25 is the whole point of the Tall Ships Races, and it is why the fleet is photographable as people rather than only as rigs.
  88. - Schleswig-Holstein, Brunsbüttel, Viermastbark Peking auf Dockschiff Combi Lift III NIK 8666. Photographed alongside in port, 2017. Class A of the Tall Ships Races covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall. The fleet that still sails is overwhelmingly naval and merchant marine training ships, because nothing else can justify the crew.
  89. - J32 702 SS Sea Cloud. Photographed 2018. Sea Cloud was built in 1931 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel as Hussar V for Marjorie Merriweather Post and Edward F. Hutton, at the time the largest private yacht in the world: a four masted barque of 360 feet with a gilded eagle figurehead. Chartered by the US Navy between 1942 and 1944 as a Coast Guard weather observation vessel under Lieutenant Carlton Skinner, she carried the first racially integrated crew in the United States armed forces since the Civil War.
  90. - J32 703 SS Sea Cloud. Photographed 2018. Rafael Trujillo bought her in 1955 and renamed her Angelita.
  91. - 2018-12-30 sea cloud - imo 13-11-03. Lindblad Tall Ship charter, SEA CLOUD - , in Port of Casablanca, Morocco on November 13, 2013. Rafael Trujillo bought her in 1955 and renamed her Angelita.
  92. - Langerak (Aalborg Kommune).TSR 2019.Alexander von Humboldt II.3.ajb. Photographed 2019. Alexander von Humboldt is a German sail training barque, recognisable in any Tall Ships fleet by her green sails, and a regular in the races run by Sail Training International.
  93. - Amerigo Vespucci (Italy) - OpSail76. Amerigo Vespucci (Italy) in New York Harbor during OpSail 76. Amerigo Vespucci was built in 1930 at the naval shipyard at Castellammare di Stabia near Naples and launched on 22 February 1931: a full rigged ship of 82.4 metres on the hull, 101 metres overall including bowsprit, with three steel masts, 26 traditional canvas sails and roughly 2,635 square metres of sail area. She still trains Italian Naval Academy midshipmen, her complement rising to about 450 with cadets aboard, and from 2023 she made a world tour visiting 36 ports in 32 countries.
  94. - Towards the future. Cisne Branco, Hubo, Gouden Leeuw and Mir. Sail op Scheveningen. The Baltic and Black Sea training fleet, including Mir, keeps full rigged ships and barques working with cadet crews, and supplies much of the Class A entry in the Tall Ships Races.
  95. - Peking 08.07.19 5D4 3339 01. Photographed out of the water, 2019. Star of India, Balclutha, Wavertree, Elissa, Glenlee, Falls of Clyde and Peking are iron and steel sailing cargo ships preserved in American and British museums, the surviving hulls of the trade that clippers and windjammers worked before steam took it.
  96. - Buque escuela portugués "NRP Sagres", o "Sagres III", en el puerto de Santa Cruz de Tener. Photographed alongside in port, 2020. Sagres, built in 1937, is the Portuguese Navy's sail training barque. Portugal was present at the founding of the Tall Ships Races through Ambassador Pedro Teotónio Pereira, who began discussions with the retired London solicitor Bernard Morgan in 1953.
  97. - 2022-08-04 03a SPIRIT OF BERMUDA - MMSI - Lunenburg, NS CAN. Photographed 2022. Schooners carry two or more masts, all fore and aft, with the aftermost equal to or taller than the rest. They fill Classes B and C of the Tall Ships Races, the 9.14 to 40 metre range below the Class A square riggers.
  98. - Segelschiff Peking mit Blick vom Dessauer Ufer. Photographed 2023. Sail festivals at Baltic and North Sea ports gather the surviving square riggers in one basin for a few days a year. Class A of the Tall Ships Races covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall, with Classes B, C and D running from 9.14 to 40 metres.
  99. - De TS RUPEL uit 1996 bij Sail Amsterdam 2025. Photographed 2025. The Tall Ships Races run two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles with a cruise in company between them, and the port calls draw the crowds that pay for the whole thing. Class A covers square riggers and any other vessel over 40 metres overall, with Classes B, C and D from 9.14 to 40 metres.
  100. - US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle participates in Sail250 Five Sisters Race to Boston. Photographed 2026. The United States Coast Guard barque Eagle trains cadets under sail, one of the Class A square riggers that make up the top of the Tall Ships Races fleet.
  101. - US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle participates in Sail250 Five Sisters Race to Boston. Photographed 2026. Gorch Fock, launched in 1958, is the German Navy's sail training barque and a fixture of the Tall Ships Races and of Kieler Woche.
  102. - NRP Sagres arrives in the Baltimore Harbor for Sail250. Photographed alongside in port, 2026. Sagres, built in 1937, is the Portuguese Navy's sail training barque. Portugal was present at the founding of the Tall Ships Races through Ambassador Pedro Teotónio Pereira, who began discussions with the retired London solicitor Bernard Morgan in 1953.
  103. - Elissa Museum Ship Bowsprit and Figurehead - 3. Historic three-masted barque sailing ship from Galveston, TX, docked at Pensacola, FL. The preserved fleet is where the archive's earlier chapters are still photographable: Cutty Sark at Greenwich with Gipsy Moth IV alongside, Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport, Pommern at Mariehamn, Vasa in her hall in Stockholm and the James Caird at Dulwich College since 1985.
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