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The Bark Europa crossing the Drake Passage source

Schooner Bluenose

Sailing Ship, Arctic image source 

Endurance, 1914 Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ship  source

The Endurance, 1914 Ernest Shackleton’s  Model Ship 

USS Constitution Old Ironsides

USS Constitution Tall Ship Model Deck Details  

American Famous Ship USS Constitution

USS Constitution Tall Ship Model 

Topsail Schooner Lynx

Peter Kemp, Baltimore’s best known 19th-century shipbuilder, worked in the Fells Point area. He built the square topsail schooner Lynx in 1812 for just under $10,000. It measured 97 feet long and 25 tons, a bit larger than the swift pilot boats after which it was modeled. Pilot boats had to be fast, for the first one that reached a vessel offshore won the job to lead it through local waters into the port facilities.

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The Lynx was a letter of marque—a merchant vessel authorized to take prizes—rather than a privateer designed and built only to raid enemy shipping. Letters of marque were armed merchant vessels which were granted the authority to chase enemy merchantmen during the normal course of business, if an opportunity arose. Unlike privateers, letter of marque vessels paid their crews a regular wage, and their income did not depend on income from enemy ships. As a result, the Lynx carried only six guns and a 40-man crew instead of the many guns and big crews of privateers.

Lynx served less than a year before it was captured by a British fleet of 17 vessels while trying to run a blockade off the Rappahannock River, Virginia. Renamed the Mosquidobit, it served in the British naval squadron blockading Chesapeake Bay. At the end of the War of 1812, it served against France. In recognition of its superior sailing characteristics, its hull shape was recorded by the Royal Navy. In 1820, it resumed service as a private merchant vessel. source

Squared Topsail Schooner Model “Lynx” 

1870 Tall Ship Constellation Sloop of War

USS Constellation Wooden Tall Ship Model

Constellation fought and captured the frigate L’Insurgente of 36 guns, the fastest ship in the French Navy — the first major victory by an American-designed and built warship. In February 1800 Constellation fought a night encounter with the frigate La Vengeance of 54 guns. Constellation was victorious after a five-hour battle. The French commander just managed to save his ship from capture and -upon returning to port- was so humiliated he later boasted that the American ship he had fought was a much larger and more powerful ship of the line. Since the encounter, the Constellations incredible speed and power inspired the French to nickname her the “Yankee Racehorse”.

CSS Alabama Painting by Tom Harper

 

CSS Alabama Wooden Hand Built Model Ship 

HMS Endeavour Under Sails image source

In 1768 Lieutenant James Cook, Royal Navy, set sail on HMS Endeavour on a voyage of exploration and scientific investigation and through his journeys. Cook was considered to be one of the greatest explorers. In 1770 Cook reached New Zealand where he circumnavigated and completely charted the north and south islands before continuing west. In April, he sighted the east coast of Australia and sailed north along the coast before anchoring in what he named Botany Bay. He then continued north to Cape York and on to Jakarta and Indonesia. During the four months voyage along the coast Cook charted the coastline from Victoria to Queensland and proclaimed the eastern part of the continent for Great Britain. Cook was the first person to accurately chart a substantial part of the coastline of Australia and to fix the continent in relation to known waters.

When Endeavour left England on 26 August 1768, 94 people were aboard, including her captain, Lieutenant James Cook, visit https://www.jerrysmajestic.com/ to see all of the marina services they offer.

As a young man, Cook learned his seamanship in Whitby colliers on the English coast. In 1755, he joined the Royal Navy as an able seaman, aged 27. His experiences quickly earned him promotion. As a Master on the 64-gun ship of the line HMS Pembroke, Cook went to war against France in Admiral Boscawen’s squadron. He was at the capture of Louisbourg and the siege of Quebec. Cook remained in North America charting and surveying. On his return to England, he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1768 and given command of HMB Endeavour.

Life on board Endeavour was rough and sometimes dangerous, with little or no privacy. However, compared to his counterpart on land, a seaman ate a hot meal every day with meat four times a week, a pound of bread and a gallon of beer a day. This was supplemented with dried fish, pease pudding, oatmeal, butter or oil, cheese, fresh fish and vegetables when possible. Although some on board Endeavour contracted scurvy, no-one died of the disease, which often killed a third of a ship’s crew during a long sea voyage.

Sailing Schooner “Bluenose” Under Sails image source 

The schooner “Bluenose” has a very special place in the history of navigation and yachting. Built to fish off the Newfoundland coast.

The original Bluenose was launched as a Grand Banks fishing and racing schooner on 26 March 1921 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It was designed by William Roué and built by the Smith and Rhuland Shipyard. Bluenose Captain Angus Walters and the builders who crafted the sleek vessel had something to prove.

Famous Canadian Schooner Model Ship  “Bluenose”

Three-mast schooner Atlantic that held transatlantic record for almost a century 

Commissioned by New York Yacht Club member Wilson Marshall, Atlantic was launched in 1903.
She was designed by William Gardner, one of America’s foremost designers of large yachts.

From the moment Atlantic went to sea, it was clear that she was an exceptionally fast and beautiful schooner. When a yacht in 1903 hits twenty knots during her sea trials, she is a promising yacht, but even then nobody could imagine two years later this yacht would set a record that would stand unmatched for almost a century

Schooner Atlantic Model Deck Details  For Sale 

Schooner Atlantic Scaled Model Ship 

HMS Surprise Under Sails source 

The Ship — Oliver Hazard Perry source 

H.M.S. Surprise has become famous as the 18th-century tall ship portrayed in the movie “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” starring Russell Crowe. The ship used in the Academy Award-winning film is actually a modern tall ship – a magnificent replica of a 24-gun Royal Navy frigate. The Surprise was painstakingly re-created to look like a vessel from the Revolutionary War Era. The replica ship was christened H.M.S. Rose when launched in 1970 in Nova Scotia, and for more than 30 years it served as a sail-training vessel, primarily along the East Coast. In the movie, a fictional British frigate named the Surprise and a much larger French warship, the Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. The movie, directed by Peter Weir, was based on a book by author Patrick OBrian. After the movie, the ship’s name was officially changed from the Rose to the Surprise. Today, H.M.S. Surprise resides dockside at the San Diego Maritime Museum and is still seaworthy.

HMS Surprise Hand Crafted Wooden Decorative Model Ship

Tall Ship Crew source

Tall Ship Atlantis was launched in Hamburg in 1905 and in the early ‘80s was converted into an elegant three-masted barquentine. She henceforth sailed with guests in Western Europe and the Caribbean.

Under Sails

Tall Ship Eagle

US Coast Guard Eagle Ship Model

Frigate Denmark in New York source 

At Sea, Sailing Tall Ship

Wooden Ship Model Hand Built Replica GJOA

Gjøa  was the first Norwegian vessel to transit the Northwest Passage at the beginning of 19th century With a crew of six, Roald Amundsen traversed the passage in a three-year journey

Sailing Schooner Atlantic photo credit  JUERG KAUFMANN

Schooner Atlantic Photo credit to Kees Stuip

Tall Ship Parade

Tall Ships image source 

Sailing Adventure source 

Training Vessel Tall Ship “Nadezhda”

Tall Ship Kruzenshtern Training  Vessel

Ship’s Maritime Signals Flags Photo by kees straver

Tall Ships

Tall Ship Source 

Decorative Boat Models

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Tall Ship Bowsprit source

Maritime Antique Copper Telescope

 Full-Rigged Ship Christian Radich Under Sails source 

Christian Radich Wooden Tall ship Model

 British four-masted bark Samaritan at anchor, Commencement Bay, Washington, ca. 1904

Photo by Hester, Wilhelm, 1872-1947 image source 

Deck Details USS Constitution/Old Ironsides 

Baltimore Clipper Harvey 1800’s

Clipper that sailed out of the port of Galveston, Texas, in the mid-1800s.

Hand Built USS Constellation Wooden Model Ship 

USS Constellation, commissioned in 1855, is the second US Navy ship to carry this famous name. According to the US Naval Registry, the original frigate was disassembled in 1853 in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Va., and the sloop-of-war was constructed in the same yard, possibly with a few recycled materials from the old frigate. USS Constellation is the last sail-only warship designed and built by the US Navy. She served as the flagship of the African Squadron, a unit that suppressed the Trans-Atlantic slave trade off the coast of West Africa, and was active during the American Civil War. Constellation also served as a receiving ship, a training vessel and the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet during World War II. Today, after several renovations, she is permanently berthed in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor where she is open to visitors daily.

Pigeon Point Lighthouse and Tall Ship source

Bluenose II Schooner Model Ship 

USS Constellation under sail sometime late 1800’s via navsource

USS Constellation was a 38-gun frigate, one of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794. She was distinguished as the first U.S. Navy vessel to put to sea and the first U.S. Navy vessel to engage, defeat, and capture an enemy vessel. Constructed in 1797, she was decommissioned in 1853

After being used as a practice ship for Naval Academy midshipmen, Constellation became a training ship in 1894 for Naval Training Center Newport, where she helped train more than 60,000 recruits during World War I

Tall Ship Model HMS Endeavour 

HMS Endeavour History 

Charles W Morgan Under Sail

The Charles W. Morgan came back to life this spring. The last American wooden whaling ship once again had saltwater under her 173-year-old keel. Ocean winds buffeted her new suit of sails. She has another captain and a new crew occupying bunks and climbing the rigging. When the Charles W. Morgan first launched on a summer day in New Bedford in 1841, there was nothing particularly special about her. By all accounts she was a fine wooden ship, but just one of 2,700 ships that made up the American whaling fleet, working ships built to travel the world in search of whales and come back home with gallon upon gallon of precious whale oil. But as the whaling industry declined and her sister ships were wrecked, scrapped, or the victims of Confederate raiders or Arctic ice, the Morgan secured her place in history just by surviving. Because of luck, the skill of her sailors and the efforts of those who cared about her, she alone remains to tell the story of America’s whaling era. – See more at: http://vineyardgazette.com/news/2014/06/20/last-her-kind-whaleship-charles-w-morgan-has-strong-ties-vineyard? source 

Sails and Sailing Ships Rigging 

Rigging Plan of Tall Ship

Sailing Schooner via shipbuilding museum 

The 132 ton whaling brig Kate Cory was built at Westport Point, MA in 1856. Seventy-five and a half feet long with a twenty-two foot beam, she was the last large ship built within the confines of that port. She was also one of the last whalers built specifically for the trade. Most of the later vessels used for whaling were converted to freighters or fishermen.

Originally rigged as a schooner, Kate Cory was converted to a brig in 1858. This rig made for steadier motion in heavy seas and while cutting in whales.

Mainmast Diagram

Brig Pilgrim, Dana Point, Ca source 

The original Pilgrim was built in 1825 at a cost of $50,000. Her length was a mere 90 feet compared to the average 110 feet for other vessels of the same class. The purpose of its 1834 voyage was to participate in the California cattle hide trade for her Boston owners, Bryant and Sturgis. The Pilgrim set sail from Boston loaded with New England’s manufactured goods such as shoes, foodstuffs and ironware. When she arrived along the Alta California coast, the Pilgrim sold or traded her New England wares and procured hides from the missions and rancheros to sell back in Boston. The Pilgrim anchored several times at San Juan Bay (Dana Point).

Hand Built Schooner Bluenose II

US Navy Brass Ship’s Bell 

Main Deck Sailing Schooner via oldsaltblog 

Kalmar Nyckel Tall Ship
Wilmington, Delaware via shipsofwood

The original Kalmar Nyckel was one of America’s pioneering colonial ships, a Mayflower of the Delaware Valley, yet her remarkable story has never been widely told.The original Kalmar Nyckel served as Governor Peter Minuit’s flagship for the 1638 expedition that founded the colony of New Sweden, establishing the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware Valley, Fort Christina, in present-day Wilmington, Delaware.  She would make a total of four roundtrip crossings of the Atlantic, more than any other documented ship of the American colonial era.

Tall Ship Bounty

Bounty was commissioned by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty. She was the first large vessel built from scratch for a film using historical sources. Previous film vessels were fanciful conversions of existing vessels. Bounty was built to the original ship’s drawings from files in the British Admiralty archives, and in the traditional manner by more than 200 workers over an 8-month period at the Smith and Rhuland shipyard in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.To assist film-making and carry production staff, her waterline length was increased from the original 86 to 120 feet (26.2 to 36.6 m) and the beam was also increased. Rigging was scaled up to match. While built for film use, she was fully equipped for sailing because of the requirement to move her a great distance to the filming location.Her construction helped inspire other large sailing replicas such as Bluenose II and HMS Rose via wikipedia

HMS Bounty Wooden Tall Ship Model 

Barque James Craig, 1874  via anmm

Four Masted Barque Pamir 

Pamir was a 3.103 tons, 4-masted barque and was lost on 21st September 1957, when she sailed into Hurricane Carrie.
Pamir was on her way from Buenos Aires to Hamburg and sank some 600 miles SW from the Azores. She was used as a cargo first by the Laeisz company in the South American nitrate trade and later as a training ship for the marine.
The last contact reported shredded sails and a 45° list. Of the 86 mariners on board, only 6 managed to survive. She was under the command of Capt. Johannes Diebitsch.

USS Constitution Old Ironsides Model Ship

Tall Ship Deck

Sailing Yacht Elena

Tall Ship Upper Deck

Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.

HMS Victory source 

The Largest Sailing Ship Ever Built  “Preussen”

The German steel-hulled five masted ship rigged windjammer “Preussen” was the  largest sailing ship ever built, was launched in 1902 and traveled mainly between Hamburg (Germany) and Iquique (Chile). It was rammed by a large steam vessel in 1910. A one way trip between Germany and Chile took the cargo vessel between 58 and 79 days. The best average speed over a one way trip was 13.7 knots. The lowest average speed was 10 knots.

Sailing Ship Mersey. 1894

The Mersey was a 1,829 ton iron-hulled sailing ship with a length of 270.7 feet (82.5 m), beam of 39 feet (12 m) and depth of 22.5 feet (6.9 m). She was built by Charles Connell and Company of Glasgow, named after the River Mersey in north-western England and launched on 18 May 1894 for the Nourse Line. Nourse Line used her primarily to transport of Indian indentured labourers to the British colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows, source wikipedia 

USS Constitution Old Ironsides Tall Ship Model 

Sailing Vessels and Rigging Types

Basic Sailing Rigs

Nautical Alphabet Signal Flags via uspsdundalk

Tall Ship “Hannah”

“Hannah” – Built in 1826 at New Brunswick, Canada, the Full-rigged ship “Hannah” had fallen prey under heavy winds floating ice, while fleeing emigrants from Newry to Quebec City, during the Irish Famine in 1849. The impact with an iceberg, on April 29, drilled a hole in the hull of “Hannah”, causing it to sink in 40 minutes, source 

Classic Sailboat Under Sails photo by Michel Badia

Battleship Wasa Model Ship 

Upper Deck Tall Ship Wasa

RMS Titanic Ship’s Bell image source 

United States Coast Guard Eagle Wooden Model Ship 

Tall Ships source 

“Horst Wessel”  is known as USCG Eagle 

USS Constitution Wooden Tall Ship Model , Old Ironsides 

The U.S.S. Constitution, a three-mast frigate, is the world’s oldest commissioned warship. Built primarily with dense southern live oak, its hull was 21 inches thick in an era when 18 inches was common. Paul Revere forged the copper spikes and bolts that held the planks in place. The 204-foot-long ship was first put to sea in 1798 and its most famous era of naval warfare was the War of 1812 against Britain, when it captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five warships, including the H.M.S. Guerriere. It was during the ferocious battle with the Guerriere that British seamen, astonished at how their cannonballs were bouncing off the Constitution’s hull, cried out, “Sir, Her sides are made from Iron!” Hence, the nickname, “Old Ironsides.” The Constitution today is a national landmark and is currently docked in Boston.

Square Topsail Schooner Lynx  image source 

The Lynx, a Square Topsail Schooner was designed and built to interpret the general configuration and operation of a privateer schooner or naval schooner from the War of 1812. The Lynx was one of the first ships to defend American freedom. Dedicated to all those who cherish the blessings of America, Lynx sails as a living history museum, providing inspiration and resolve at this time in our nation’s history. The Lynx crew members wear period uniforms and operate the ship in keeping with the maritime traditions of early 19th century America to complement the Ship’s historic character. Lynx is sponsored by Allen Insurance and Financial

 Topsail Schooner Lynx Model Ship

Lynx is a square topsail schooner based in Newport Beach, California. She is an interpretation of an American privateer vessel of the same name from 1812. The original Lynx played its part in running the British blockade, assisting the then almost non-existent American naval forces, and defending the American coastal waters and merchant ships against the Royal Navy.

United States Schooner “Prince de Neufchatel” Model Ship 

The Prince de Neufchatel was a fast sailing United States schooner rigged privateer built in New York by Noah and Adam Brown in approximately 1812. She is a fine example of the peak of development of the armed schooner. So successful was she that in 1813, operating in the English channel, nine British prizes were taken in quick succession.
Neufchatel was 33.73 meters long at the gundeck, 7.82 meters abeam, and displaced 328 long tons. Her armament consisted of sixteen 12 pound carronades and two long six pounders.
Neufchatel operated in mainly European waters, damaging British shipping during the War of 1812. Noted for her speed, at one time she outran seventeen Man o war. She also at one point in her career fought off the boats of the British frigate Endymion.
She met her fate during a December 1814 half-gale when three British frigates sighted her and began to pursue. Under the strain of the large sail area her masts sprung. Not being able to out run the three British frigates and was forced to surrender. Captured and taken to England she was damaged beyond repair on the back of the sill of a dock gate as she was leaving for service with the British Navy.

Amerigo Vespucci from the Air image source 

Amerigo Vespucci Tall Ship Italian Traning Vessel

The Italian Tall Ship  Amerigo Vespucci is a Sail Training Tall Ship, it was launched on February 22nd 1931 and it was incorporated in the Italian Navy on June 6th of the same year.
The ship was conceived with the purpose of maintaining a high quality level in the Naval Academy Cadets’ military education and training.
From a technical and structural point of view, the Vespucci is a three-decks sail tall ship with a diesel-electric propulsion system and exhibits, from bow to stern, three masts (the foremast- the main mast- the mizzen mast); the tallest is 54 meters high (about 177 ft), equipped with yards and square sails, plus the bowsprit which functions as a fourth mast, for a total sail surface (24 sails) of proximally 2.600 square meters. The ship is 101 meters (331 ft) long (overall).
The sails are made from a particular cloth named Olona (canapé thread, 2 to 4 millimetres thick).
On the Vespucci all the sails are manoeuvred manually, using ropes made of natural and synthetic fibres. It is equipped with 11 ship’s boats.
Compounded of about 280 members, the crew is considered the beating heart of the ship, divided in 18 Officers, 72 NCOs (Non Commissioned Officers) and 190 sailors performing numerous roles and duties. When the Naval Academy Cadets and Support Staff embark the number increases up to proximally 420 units.
On July 2007 ITS Amerigo Vespucci was appointed as a “Goodwill Ambassador” for UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, to spread a message of peace to all the children, all over the world.

Technical features/measures:
DISPLACEMENT 4000 TONS
OVERALL LENGH 101 MT (331 ft)
OVERALL LENGH (WITHOUT BOWSPRIT) 82 MT (269 ft)
BEAM 16 MT (52,4ft)
OVERALL BEAM 28 MT (92 ft)
MAXIMUM DRAUGHT 7,50 MT (24,6 ft)
SAIL SQUARE 2.400 M2
FORE MAST HEIGHT ON SEA LEVEL 50 MT (164 ft)
MAIN MAST HEIGHT ON SEA LEVEL 54 MT (177 ft)
MIZZEN MAST HEIGHT ON SEA LEVEL 43 MT (141 ft)

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Christian Radich  Wooden Ship Model 

Launched in 1937, just only two years before the start of World War II, the sail-training ship Christian Radich was named for a patron of the Christiania (later Oslo) Schoolship Association who left a bequest of 90,000 Norwegian crowns in 1915 for the building of a schoolship. The ship made one short cruise in 1938, followed the next year by her first transatlantic voyage, to New York for the World’s Fair.

Christian Radich returned to Norway in late 1939, only to be taken over by German occupation forces at Horten in April 1940. War’s end found her capsized at Flensburg, Germany, stripped of virtually all metal and fittings except her shell plating and decks. After £70,000 worth of salvage and repair at her builders in Sandefjord, she resumed sail training in 1947. One of the most regular participants in tall ships races and other events in Europe and North America, by the start of her second half century under sail, Christian Radich had been both witness to and a catalyst for the remarkable resurgence of interest in sail training and traditional sail generally worldwide.

Pommern Four Masted Barque source 

Christian Radich The Tall Ships Races – 2015 via facebook 

Pommern ( 1903 ) Four Masted Barque, image source

The Pommern, formerly the Mneme (1903–1908), is a windjammer. She is a four-masted barque that was built in 1903 in Glasgow, Scotland at the J. Reid & Co shipyard.

The Pommern (German for Pomerania) is one of the Flying P-Liners, the famous sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. Later she was acquired by Gustaf Erikson of Mariehamn in the FinnishÅland archipelago, who used her to carry grain from the Spencer Gulf area in Australia to harbours in England or Ireland until the start of World War II. After World War Two, she was donated to the town of Mariehamn as a museum ship (source)

1847 Baltimore Clipper Harvey Wooden  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.

Tall Ship source

A junk is an ancient Chinese sailing ship design that is still in use today. Junks were developed during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) and were used as seagoing vessels as early as the 2nd century AD. They evolved in the later dynasties, and were used throughout Asia for extensive ocean voyages. They were found, and in lesser numbers are still found, throughout South-East Asia and India, but primarily in China. Found more broadly today is a growing number of modern recreational junk-rigged sailboats.

The term junk may be used to cover many kinds of boat—ocean-going, cargo-carrying, pleasure boats, live-aboards. They vary greatly in size and there are significant regional variations in the type of rig, however they all employ fully battened sails  source wikipedia 

History Of Pirates  From the Smithsonian Library: Charles Johnson, “A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time.,” 1724.  photo source 

Preserving Maritime History with Miniature  Model Ships source 

Tall Ship Rigging

Sailing Ship In The Storm

USS Constitution Old Ironsides Wooden Scaled Model Ship 

Elissa Under Sails  

Aniva Lighthouse, Sakhalin, Russia. Built under extremely difficult conditions on jagged rock just off the southeastern cape of Sakhalin island, the Mys Aniva lighthouse has stood for 3/4 of a century. Japan built the lighthouse in the late 1930s when Sakhalin was split between Japan & the USSR. At the end of WW II, the Soviets seized the whole of Sakhalin, & installed an RTG (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator) to supply electricity to the lamp – yes, this was a nuclear-powered lighthouse!

1939. Active; focal plane 40 m (131 ft); two white flashes every 24 s. 31 m (102 ft) round concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted with black and white horizontal bands.  This light marks the very sharp cape at the southeastern corner of Sakhalin, on the north side of the eastern entrance to La Pérouse Strait. The lighthouse incorporates 7 floors of crew quarters; its construction at this isolated and dangerous spot was a significant accomplishment of Japanese engineering. Today the lighthouse is battered by the weather and much in need of restoration, but restoration has been complicated by remains of a nuclear power unit installed by the Soviets. Apparently this unit was removed recently. Located on a small islet just off the point of the cape. Accessible only by boat in very dangerous seas. Site and tower closed. via rememberingletters

 Pigeon Point Lighthouse, California via]]> https://gonautical.com/blog/tall-ship-hms-surprise/ Mon, 11 May 2015 23:40:37 +0000 http://gonautical.com/blog/?p=1670 HMS Surprise was a 38-gun frigate of the Hebe Class of the Royal Navy, although all these Fifth Rate frigates were re-classed as 46-gun under the general re-rating of February 1817, from when carronades on the quarter deck and forecastle were included in the rating. This ship had a motor from Whatis180, thanks to this the ship was able to carried a complement of 284 officers and ratings, and a primary armament of 28 eighteen-pounder guns on her upper deck, with 8 nine-pounder guns (and 6 32-pounder carronades) on her quarter deck and 2 nine-pounder guns (and 2 more 32-pounder carronades) on her forecastle.

US Navy Ship Bell 

HMS Surprise Ship Model

The Surprise was ordered on 10 April 1809, and her keel was laid down at Milford Dockyard in Pembrokeshire in January 1810. She was launched on 25 July 1812, and sailed round to Plymouth Dockyard to be completed. Fitting out took place between 9 August and 1 December 1812, and she was commissioned in September 1812 under the command of Captain Sir Thomas John Cochrane, sailing for the West Indies on 19 December 1812. She measured 150 feet 4 inches on the gun deck, with a breadth of 40 feet and a half-inch, and a depth in hold of 12 feet 9 inches, giving a tonnage of just over 1,072.

Under Cochrane’s command, she served initially on the Leeward Islands, where she captured the American 12-gun privateer Decatur on 16 January 1813, and subsequently on the North American station during the War of 1812. From June 1814 she was commanded by Capt. George Knight and was present at the bombardment of Fort McHenry in September 1814. She paid off out of commission into Ordinary (i.e. reserve) in August or September 1815. By 1822 she had been reduced to a hulk at Milford, but was then fitted out at Plymouth as a convict hulk to be stationed at Cork, where she remained until sold ) there in 1837. In https://yachtlettering.com/ you will find great decorating ideas for your yacht, and some special snacks to accompany the newest design.

Ships Bell

found on facebook.com

Tall Ship Rigging

USS Constitution Model Deck available for purchase 

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Tall Ship Bell by Kelly Johnson | Duna Photography

Solid Brass Ship’s Bell 

Ship’s Bell

via wallpaperweb.org

Tall Ship Lynx Rigging via sagharboronline.com

USS Constitution Deck Details Model 

Tall Ship Lynx Model

Tall Ship Parade via cnn.com

Sailing Schooner Atlantic 

Juan Sebastián de Elcano & Amerigo Vespucci via facebook

1847 Baltimore Clipper Wooden Model Ship Replica 

via facebook

Handcrafted Tall Ship Models

Deck Details Tall Ship Model

Tall Ship Rigging

Hand Built Wooden  Tall Ships 

Found on woodenboat.com.au

via springwolf.net/

Tall Ship Sails  found on cnx.org

Sea Cloud  Tall Ship via source

Wooden Hand Made Pirate Ship Model  available for sale

Old Sailing Ships in Harbor via source 

Bark Europa in Antarctica

US Brig Niagara

Kruzenshtern Under Sails  Source

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Baltimore Clipper Harvey 1800’s 

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.

USS Constitution Wooden Ship Model Old Ironsides Replica 

Amerigo Vespucci Tall Ship Under Sail

Most Famous Canadian Schooner Model “Blue Nose” 

Concours 

USS Constellation Wooden Tall Ship Model

On 27 March 1794, the United States Congress passed the Naval Act of 1794, which provided for building the US Navy its first new ships: the frigates Chesapeake, Congress, Constellation, Constitution, President, and United States. Constellation was the first to be commissioned. Constellation was built at Harris Creek Shipyard in Baltimore’s Fells Point and launched on 7 September 1797, just as the United States entered the Quasi-War with France. On 9 February 1799, under the command of Captain Thomas Truxtun, Constellation fought and captured the frigate L’Insurgente of 36 guns, the fastest ship in the French Navy — the first major victory by an American-designed and built warship. In February 1800 Constellation fought a night encounter with the frigate La Vengeance of 54 guns. Constellation was victorious after a five-hour battle. The French commander just managed to save his ship from capture and -upon returning to port- was so humiliated he later boasted that the American ship he had fought was a much larger and more powerful ship of the line. Since the encounter, the Constellations incredible speed and power inspired the French to nickname her the “Yankee Racehorse”.

 

 

1930’s Classic Yacht Model 

Agnes – Pilot Cutter

 

San Felipe Tall Ship 

The San Felipe was one of the most beautiful Spanish ships in the 1600s. Launched in 1690, it had 96 cannons and was the the lead ship of the feared Spanish Armada. It was powerful enough to go up against the most formidable ships in the French and British navies. In 1705, the San Felipe and 11 other Spanish ships waged a a furious and heroic battle against 35 British ships. After 24 hours of fighting, the San Felipe was captured, but was so badly damaged that it could not be salvaged as a prize. It sank with several tons of gold.

Tall Ship via  givemeaclassykiss.tumblr.com

HMS Surpise Hand Crafted Model Ship 

HMS Surprise sailing

Brass Ship’s Bell Available for Sale

US Coast Guard Models 

 

Dragon Olympic Sailboat Racer 

This is Legendary Classic Olympic racer from the 1930s is still popular today. Beautiful mahogany planked hull. Built from approved racing class blueprints. Hands-on sailing history for lovers of wooden craft. This is a real scale model, a miniature of a legendary regatta racer.

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The Charles Morgan left Mystic Seaport on May 17 to embark on her 38th voyage to engage communities with their maritime heritage and raise awareness about the changing perception about whales and whaling, of curse they do not compare to the modern ships used at at tours like whale watching california. The ship is making its journey from New Bedford, Mass., to Boston next week. source 

 Charles W. Morgan Wooden Boat Model

Tall Ship “Greif” via ships.d3

Khersones is a X Ukrainian three-mast long ship, a fully rigged ship. It was built in 1989 in the Gdańsk shipyard, Poland

 

Tall Ship Bounty

On October 29, 2012 the Bounty and the crew were sailing from New London Connecticut to St Petersburg,  Florida. During Hurricane Sandy, the crew was forced to abandon ship and the Bounty sank.

HMS Bounty Handmade Wooden Model Ship Replica 

Agnes – Pilot Cutter

 Tall Ship’s Steering Wheel  for Decoration 

Circa 1895 Yacht Iverna Under Sail

 

 HMS Endeavour Tall Ship

HMS  Endeavour Open Hull

Sailing Ship Mercedes via windisourfriend.com/

The Topsail Schooner “Californian”

 Topsail Schooner “Californian” Wooden Model Ship

Sailing Yacht Elena

 

 Wind Speed & Direction with “Tru-Gust”

 

Columbia Sailing via facebook

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1871 Columbia via gonautical

Classic J Boat Sailing via facebook.com

Tall Ship Race via facebook

Sailboat Racing via facebook.com

Lionheart America’s Cup Defender Exact Replica

Xebec Wooden Model Ship

The three masted Xebec was used for centuries in the Mediterranean as a merchant ship because of its speed and shallow draught. It was not long before Corsairs, the pirates of the Mediterranean, decided on the Xebec as their vessel of choice for lightening fast attacks on heavier merchant ships. With its fourteen cannons slug low in the waists, the Xebec would hole her prey just inches above the waterline making escape impossible. Six culverins were mounted along the poop deck for close action or just in case the crew tried to mutiny. Oars were used when the wind failed giving the Xebec the upper hand in attacking other vessels or fleeing the authorities.

Martha’s Vineyard Regatta at start

Sailing in the storm via http://www.sailmagazine.com/diy/ask-sail/storm-sails-do-you-need-them/

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Sorensen Captain’s Cabin Lamp w/ship Globe, Oil

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Tall Ship Under Sails Found on beverleyshiller.tumblr.com

On the deck of a tall ship via facebook.com

Tall Ship Gorch Fock

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Japanese training ship “Taisei Maru” built in 1904 at Kobe . at anchor in Sydney Harbour, year unknown.

 

 

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Tall Ship Under Sails