Tall Ships

Built in Bremen 1906 as a reserve light vessel and named ‘Reserve Sonderburg’
In 1986 she was converted into a three masted barque and in 1988 re-launched as a sail training vessel under the current name of Alexander von Humboldt.

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The Asgard ll was built as a sail training vessel by Jack Tyrrell in Arklow, Ireland and launched in 1981 by the late former taoiseach Charles Haughey. The vessel was owned by the Irish state and operated by Coiste an Asgard, she had a traditional figurehead in the form of a carving of "Granuaile". Asgard sank off the French coast, about 20 miles southwest of Belle-Île-en-Mer near La Rochelle in 2008.

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Built in 1918 as a herring drifter and after serving as motor ship on the Baltic Sea until 1970. During the late seventies the ship was acquired by new owners and used for clandestine missions during the war in the Near East with a suspicion of drug smuggling, a fire off the English coast brought a change of fortune. Under new ownership since 1984 she has been rebuilt as a traditional brig and is now employed in sail training activities.

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Built in 1930 as a sailing cargo carrier Capitan Miranda has served her nation’s Navy for more than two decades. After World War II she became a hydrographic survey vessel for the Uruguayan Navy and in 1978 she became a sailing ship again, rigged as a schooner.

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Constantia was built in Marstal, southern Denmark in 1908 as a Baltic trader named "Minde" . Sold on to Norway and then Sweden, working as a motor vessel. In 1996 she was re-rigged and used for sail training, her present owners being the Solnaship Foundation..

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Creoula 50th Anniversary Tall Ships Race. Torbay 2006.
The 4 masted Topsail Schooner Creoula is one of the ships of the Portuguese “White Fleet” that fished the Newfoundland Banks.
Built in 1937 in the Companhia União Fabril (CUF) shipyards
in Lisbon for Parceria Geral de Pescas fishing company.

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The 3 masted barque Cuauhtemoc was built for the Mexican Navy in the Celaya shipyards (Bilbao, Spain) and launched in July 1982. She was the last of four windjammers built by Bilbaol shipyards, her predecessors were the Gloria (Columbia), (Guayas) Equador and the Simon Bolivar (Venezuela). The Cuauhtemoc is named for the last Aztec emperor who was imprisoned and executed by the conquistador, Herman Cortes, in 1525 . The Cuauhtemoc is a used by the Mexican Navy to train its officer cadets.

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The steel-hulled 3 masted schooner Estelle, originally built for North Sea trawl fishing in Emden Germany 1922. In 1985, Estelle was acquired by Eestaas Oy and its transformation to a sailing ship began in Turku 1986.
Estelle is currently being used in an awareness raising international education project by Uusi Tuuli. The ship also works as a forum for various NGOs and organisations who share an idea of a fairer world.

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Europa was built in Hamburg in 1911 as a lightship on the river Elbe and later used as a standby vessel. Over an 8 year period starting in 1986 she was rebuilt and rigged as a three-masted bark. Sometimes called the ‘Ocean Wanderer’ Europa undertakes ambitious winter voyages to Antarctica and tall ship racing in the summer.

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Built in 1911 as a topsail schooner Eye of the Wind has survived a shipwreck and a major fire. In 1973 under new ownership she was rigged as a brigantine and had the honour of being named flagship for "Operation Drake" . Since then she has starred in some major Hollywood productions, these include "Blue Lagoon", "Savage Island", "Tai Pan" and "White Squall".

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Built in 1947 Falken belongs to the Swedish Navy and is used as a sail training vessel.

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Gloria was built in 1968 at the Celeya shipyard in Spain, she is the official flagship and sail-training ship of the Colombian Navy. At 56 meters she is one of the biggest tall ships still afloat and carries a beautiful figurehead covered in gold leaf,

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Built in 1909 as a trading schooner called San Antonio. Refitted in 1971 as the sail/passenger vessel Ariadne and in 1982 converted for sail training and renamed Großherzogin Elisabeth

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Built 1937 as an ocean-going ice class ship for the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, she was originally named DANA and used for marine biological research. After further periods of work with different companies she was converted in 2007 for charter and sail training.

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The Jolie Brise gaff pilot cutter was built in La Havre in 1913 She was the last boat to carry the Royal Mail under sail, has won the Fastnet Race three times, including the first race in 1925 and she has twice been the overall winner of the Tall Ship Races.

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Topsail Schooner 'Oosterschelde'
Oosterschelde was built in the Netherlands in 1918 for the Rotterdam shipping company H.A.A.S.
As a freighter the ship carried cargos of clay, bricks and wood as well as salted herring, bran, potatoes, straw and bananas.
Her name is derived from the eastern part of the Schelde river that flows from France through Belgium and the Netherlands to the sea.

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Built 1948 Le Havre as an Acrtic fishing trawler. Now rigged as a mainmast barquentine.

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STS MIR. A Russian full rigged sail training ship, built in 1987 at the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk. Poland. The second largest of 6 sister ships and 8M shorter than the SEDOV. In english her name means "Peace"

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The Roald Amundsen built in 1952 as a deep sea fishing lugger In 1992, she was converted and rigged as a traditional brig for sail training.

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The Sedov, originally named the Magdalene Vinnen II, was launched in Kiel in 1921 at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft at Kiel, Germany, for the shipping company F. A. Vinnen & Co. of Bremen, one of the largest German shipping companies at the beginning of the 20th century. She sailed on her maiden voyage on September 1, 1921 which took her from Bremen via Cardiff, where she took on coal, to Buenos Aires. Despite bad weather, the journey from England to Argentina with holds full of coal took just 30days. This four-masted barque has made two voyages around Cape Horn to Chile.

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The full rigged ship Sorlandet is the oldest of the three Norwegian Tall Ships, built in Kristiansand Sorlandet was launched in 1927. Through "Sørlandets Seilende Skoleskibs Institution"( a school/institution for seafarers to be), she became a vital part in the education of young seamen from the southern region of Norway called Sørlandet.

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Trinovante was launched in 1994 the inspiration of John Shores, designer and current skipper. Having admired the Portuguese Schooner Creoula whilst in Lisbon John set about designing the Trinovante, a three masted traditionally rigged schooner, 24m in length with a maximum draught of seven feet and a cargo hold forward. She needed to be strong, seaworthy and easy to handle by a small crew. The keel was laid in Wivenhoe, a village on the banks of the river Colne in Essex. The last big sailing ship constructed there was the the Lord Nelson launched in 1986.

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