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Tall Ships Calendar 2009 by Thad Koza
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FAR BARCELONA (Spain)
The Spanish schooner, Far Barcelona, was originally built in Norway in 1874. It has been restored by a consortium of foundations, and schools under the direction of one man. It is a Hardanger jakt (double-masted schooner). It is in Spain as part of an effort by the EL FAR Consortium to open up the city of Barcelona to the sea, provide education and training in sea trades, manages institutional projects and offers services to the nautical sector.
Le DON du VENT (France)
A traditional gaff-rigged schooner, Le Don Du Vent homeports in Marseille. This Bermuda ketch is 105’ in length.
PRINCE WILLIAM (UK)
One of two brigs built in 2000 – 01 for the Tall Ships Youth Trust, Portsmouth, England. The Trust’s brigs are the largest built in Britain for over a century. Their rigging comprises nearly nine miles of wire and rope. _ey carry enough fuel to drive a small car around the world ten times. They have 50 times more computer power than the Apollo 10 spacecraft. Each voyage can accommodate 48 youth for sail training.
SEUTE DERNE II (Germany)
One of the last “Baltic traders” built in the Ring Andersen yard in 1939, the 119-foot gaff ketch now homeports in Travemunde, Germany. The ship was converted in 1964 and by 1973 became a sail-training ship.
THO PA GA (Spain)
A fore and aft schooner, Tho-Pa-Ga was built in 1924 as a traditional Mediterranean pailebot. Tho-Pa-Ga is the diminutive name of an inspirational Buddhist monk. The schooner is 138 feet in length, and is built of double-planked pitch pine.
LINDEN (Finland)
The Linden is a combination of old time shipping tradition and modern requirements for comfort and safety. She was built in Mariehamn, Åland, Finland, between 1991 and 1993, based on the original Linden fore-and aft schooner, which dated back to 1920. Her building required 1,000 pine trees, 50,000 ship nails, 1,000 liters of tar, 110,000 pounds of ballast and 40,000 manhours.
TRE KRONOR (Sweden)
Only an idea in 1993, the 115-foot Tre Kronor was launched in 2005. Tre Kronor was commissioned by Princess Victoria of Sweden in 2006 and is 115 feet long. Her first official sailing was during the Tall Ships visit to Stockholm in July 2007; her maiden journey, in 2008. She is modelled after a Brig built in 1857 as a cargo navy ship. harbor of the Navy town Karlskrona. The frame, planking and garnishing (the inside the ship) are of oak. The deck is built of Siberian larch. Masts and spars are made of pine and larch.
AMERIGO VESPUCCI (Italy)
Amerigo Vespucci is the training vessel of the Italian Naval Academy. She was built in 1930 at the (formerly Royal) Naval Shipyard of Castellammare di Stabia (Naples). following a design by Lieutenant Colonel Francesco Rotundi of the Italian Navy Engineering Corps, inspired by the style of large late 18th century 74-cannon ships of the line. The steel hull is painted black with two white stripes in reference to the gun decks of the original design, but she carries no guns. She was launched on February 22, 1931. In 2007 she was made a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations children’s fund UNICEF.
SPIRIT of BERMUDA (Bermuda)
Known as a “Bermuda sloop,” Spirit Of Bermuda is a three-masted schooner based on an early nineteenth-century design. She was designed for fast dispatch between Bermuda and the other colonial ports of Halifax and Jamaica. _e masts, with their characteristic “rake,” and the triangular sails allowed quick maneuvers and directions changes in response to the unsettled winds of the islands. She was built in 2006, and her homeport of Hamilton, Bermuda, will host the Tall Ships rendezvous in 2009.
STAR OF INDIA (USA)
The Star of India is the world’s oldest active ship. She began her life on the stocks at Ramsey Shipyard in the Isle of Man in 1863, as Euterpe. She was a full-rigged ship until 1901, when the Alaska Packers Association rigged her down to a barque, her present rig. She began her sailing life with two near-disastrous voyages to India. In 1898 she was sold to the Alaska Packers and used as a salmon cannery, under the name Star of India. By 1926 she was saved from the scrap yard by San Diegans, but not renovated until 1976
VIRGINIA (USA)
The 122-foot, $3.9 million schooner Virginia was commissioned in June 2005 as the Old Dominion’s goodwill vessel. She was built along the lines of a 1917 Virginia pilot schooner that ferried professional pilots to guide cargo ships up the Chesapeake after long ocean passages. These boats had to stand station off Cape Charles in rough weather, and had to be seaworthy as well as speedy. She can accommodate up to 12 students onboard as apprentice crew on voyages.
BOWDOIN ( USA)
The Bowdoin was built in East Boothbay, Maine, and outfitted in South Portland in 1921. Captain Donald B. MacMillan envisioned a small vessel, strong, maneuverable, and with a shallow draft for navigating in the icy waters of the far north. For decades, she repeatedly navigated uncharted waters from Labrador’s dangerous coast to the ice choked bays of Greenland and Baffin Island. _ey carried scientists researching the Arctic as well as supplies and medical aid to remote communities. Now celebrated as National Historic Landmarks, both ships are fondly remembered in the many northern communities they returned to year after year.
The size is 11 inches by 14 inches, opening at the fold to 14 inches by 22 inches.
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