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Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships. It is sorted by overall length.
A tall ship from above anchored off of Newlyn in Cornwall Group of "tall ships" at Hanse Sail 2010. A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. "Tall ship" can also be defined more specifically by an organization, such as for a race or ...
Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship of the Spanish Navy.It is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled barquentine (schooner barque).At 113 metres (371 ft) long, it is the third-largest tall ship in the world, and is the sailing vessel that has sailed the furthest, covering more than 2,000,000 nautical miles (3,700,000 km; 2,300,000 mi) in its lifetime.
A tall ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques.For the purposes of this category, tall ship will refer to those vessels rated as class "B" or above (Fore and aft rigged vessels between 100 and 160 feet (30 and 49 meters) in length, and all square-rigged vessels).
HMS Surprise is a modern tall ship built at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. The vessel was built in 1970 as HMS Rose to a Phil Bolger design based on the original 18th-century British Admiralty drawings of HMS Rose, a 20-gun sixth-rate post ship from 1757.
The ship, when acquired by the Rhode Island trust for $325,000, was a 138 feet (42 m) steel hull, built by an organization in Ontario. It had cost $750,000 to build the bare hull. However the Canadian group was eroded by negative press before the ship could be completed. The Rhode Islanders were approached and offered the uncompleted vessel.
A newly established foundation, the Deutsche Stiftung Sail Training or DSST (German Sail Training Foundation), bought the vessel and transformed it into a tall ship according to the plans of Polish naval architect Zygmunt Choreń. On 30 May 1988 she was christened Alexander von Humboldt after the celebrated German explorer. In a historical ...
The ship's maiden voyage was on 1 September 2000 from Southampton to Sark, St Helier and Weymouth before returning to Southampton. The ship is owned by a UK-based charity, the Jubilee Sailing Trust, which also owns the 42-metre-long tall ship STS Lord Nelson (length including bowsprit is 55 metres and waterline length is 37 metres).