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Wooden Handmade Schooner Atlantic Model
The Atlantic Schooner was built in 1903 by Townsend and Downey shipyard, and designed by William Gardner, for Wilson Marshall. The three-masted schooner was skippered by Charlie Barr and it set the record for fastest transatlantic passage by a monohull in the 1905 Kaiser’s Cup race. The record remained unbroken for nearly 100 years
Schooner Lynx Under Sails
Famous Historic Schooner Model 1812 “Lynx”
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America, 1851 Scaled Schooner Model
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Schooner “Californian”
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Californian was built in 1984 as a replica of the revenue service cutter C.W. Lawrence, which operated off the coast of California in the 1850s. On July 23, 2003, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Bill making her the “official state tall ship” of California.
Originally commissioned by the Nautical Heritage Society, she has flown the flag of California up and down the coast and in ports ranging from Hawaii,Mexico, and the East Coast. She also represented the state at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The model for her figurehead was actress Catherine Bach, who was chosen as she was descended from one of the state’s early families.
Recently acquired by the Maritime Museum of San Diego, she underwent a complete overhaul and has now returned to providing sail training and sea educational programs up and down the Californian coast. The public can go on a sail every Saturday in the summer.
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Schooner “Californian” Scaled Replica Model
1934 J Class Yacht Rainbow Model
J Boat Under Sails
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Velsheda vs Endeavour
J Class yachts were always on a grand scale, huge spreads of canvas on hulls of 120 feet or more
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1805 HMS Victory Admiral Nelson Flagship
Historical Note: The H.M.S. Victory was the ultimate British fighting vessel: a full rigged 227 feet long ship with 104 guns and 850 men when at full capacity. It is able to move from 15 to 17 kilometers per hour, and weighed as heavy as 7 tons, including guns. It was launched in 1765 and was most famous as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Nelson was shot and killed during the battle. H.M.S. Victory is the oldest naval ship still in commission. It has been restored and rests in a dry dock at Portsmouth, England. The ship in Portsmouth is the sixth ship with the name Victory in the Royal Navy. There has been great interest in the fifth Victory ship, which was built 15 years earlier and whose wreckage was found recently by Odyssey Marine Exploration.
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1930 Classic Yacht Model
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First Squared Rigged Tall Ship Friesland
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Dutch Tall Ship
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The cold did not save sailing ships moored in the ports of Leman, Switzerland. In Geneva, several boats sank under the weight of the ice. Found on tomorrows-adventures.com
Beauty Of An Ocean
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1921 Bluenose Fishing Schooner
HISTORIC NOTE
Bluenose was built in Nova Scotia in 1921 to fish the rough waters off the coast of Newfoundland. Throughout the 1920 and 1930 she came to international attention by winning the International Fishermen’s Race. She was lost on a reef near Haiti in 1946.
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Baltimore Clipper Harvey Model Ship
The Harvey was built in 1847 in the state of Maryland. She was an able sailer working out of the port of Galveston Texas. At the turn out the Century she was making several voyages a year between Galveston and the ancient Jewish port of Jaffa which at the time was still under the Ottaman empire. Her main cargo was hemp used to make ropes for the rigging of ships. She exemplified this class of roving privateers, overtaking and capturing British merchantmen laden with cargo to support the British expeditionary forces then attempting to recapture the former colonies. She had a successful career, first as a warrior and then as a cargo carrier. She displaced about 225 tons, and had a length of 97 feet, a width of 25 feet and a depth of less than 11 feet. With the end of the war, transatlantic trade resumed, and the Baltimore clipper evolved over the next 30 years to take the form of larger cargo carrying packets. These had similar hull lines and were longer, slimmer, and faster than older merchant ships.
Pride of Baltimore “Schooner”
Schooner “America” Sailing
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Sailing Schooner America Model
The America was a 19th century racing yacht, designed by George Steers for Commodore John Cox Stevens and is also a syndicate from the New York Yacht Club. On August 22, 1851, this schooner became infamous after winning by 8 minutes over the Royal Yacht Squadron’s “One Hundred Guinea Cup.” In honor of this victory, the international sailing trophy for this 53 mile regatta around the Isle of Wight became the America’s Cup.
George Steers designed the America. Steers was a revolutionary designer whose ships repeatedly set record and won races because of his practice of giving ships a knife-like bow widening aft, as opposed to the popular practice of the time which was to give ships a blunt bow and a sharp stern.
A personal friend of Steer’s, Richard Brown, a member of the Sandy Hook Pilots captained the ship. A skilled yacht racer whom chose Nelson Comstock as his first mate, which was a novice to racing.
Setting aside the famous races, the America passed through various hands of ownership such as, John de Blaquiere in 1851, who then sold her to Henry Montagu in 1856. The ship over time was not maintained and was raised and repaired by the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. The ship served as a training ship in the U.S. Naval Accademy after serving the war on the Union side of the blockade.
As history repeated itself, the ship was never maintained and by 1940, she had become severely decayed. On March 29, 1942, the shed where the America was stored collapsed during a heavy snowstorm. In 1945, the remains of the shed and the America were finally scrapped and burned
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Californian was built in 1984 as a replica of the revenue service cutter C.W. Lawrence which operated off the Californian coast in the 1850s. She is known as the “Official Tall ship Ambassador for the State of California”,
A precursor to today’s Coast Guard, the Revenue Cutter Service was responsible for securing the tax revenue and to relieve distressed merchant vessels, much as the United States Coast Guard operates today.
Originally commissioned by the Nautical Heritage Society, she’s flown the Californian flag up and down the Californian coast and in ports ranging from Hawaii, Mexico, and the East Coast.
Recently acquired by the Maritime Museum of San Diego, she underwent a complete overhaul and has now returned to providing sail training and sea educational programs up and down the Californian coast
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The Pride was originally built as an authentic reproduction of a 19th century Baltimore Clipper schooner, patterned after and named for the legendary Baltimore built topsail schooner Chasseur sailed by the privateer Thomas Boyle. The Chasseur was known as the “Pride of Baltimore” and participated in the War of 1812.
One of the most famous of the American privateers, Captain Thomas Boyle sailed his Baltimore clipper, Chasseur, out of Fells Point, where she had been launched from Thomas Kemp’s shipyard in 1812. On his first voyage as master of Chasseur in 1814, Boyle sailed east to the British Isles, where he harassed the British merchant fleet and sent a notice to George III, by way of a captured merchant vessel, declaring that the entire British Isles were under naval blockade by Chasseur alone! Despite its implausibility, this caused the British Admiralty to call vessels home from the American war to guard merchant ships sailing in convoys. Chasseur captured or sank 17 vessels before returning home to Baltimore on March 25, 1815, where the Niles Weekly Register dubbed the ship, her captain, and crew the “pride of Baltimore” for their achievement.
The Pride of Baltimore
Construction and service
In 1975, the City of Baltimore, as part of a plan to revitalize its Inner Harbor, proposed the construction of a replica sailing vessel as a centerpiece, posting a notice requesting proposals for “an authentic example of an historic Baltimore Clipper” to be designed and built using “construction materials, methods, tools, and procedures… typical of the period.”
A design by Thomas Gillmer was chosen, and master shipwright Melbourne Smith oversaw the construction of the vessel next to the Maryland Science Center in downtown Baltimore where residents and curious visitors could watch the craftsmen working with tools and techniques of two centuries earlier. Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski performed the launching ceremonies on February 27, 1977, only 10 months after the start of construction, and the Pride of Baltimore was commissioned on behalf of the citizens of Baltimore and Maryland by the Mayor William Donald Schaefer two months later on May 1, 1977.
The Pride sailed over 150,000 nautical miles (280,000 km) during her nine years of service, visiting ports along the Eastern Seaboard from Newfoundland to the Florida Keys, the Great Lakes, the Caribbean and the West Coast from Mexico to British Columbia. She visited European ports across the Atlantic in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean.
The Pride of Baltimore II was launched in 1988 after the loss of the first Pride of Baltimore, and continues the role of Maryland’s Flagship and Goodwill Ambassador, promoting business and tourism in Maryland.
Unlike the original Pride, the Pride II is not a replica of any specific vessel, and though it represents a type of vessel known as a Baltimore Clipper, it was built to contemporary standards for seaworthiness and comfort. Pride II, like its predecessor, is a topsail schooner, with two large gaff sails (one on a boom and one loose-footed), a main gaff topsail, several headsails, and a square topsail and flying topgallant on the foremast. She also flies studding sails (stun’s’ls), rare on modern traditional sailing vessels. These additional sails are set along the edge of the square topsail and the mainsail, supported by additional spars known as stun’s’l booms.
The Pride of Baltimore II is owned by the citizens of the state of Maryland and operated by Pride, inc., a private, non-profit organization.
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