TALL SHIPS PHOTOGRAPHED BY WILLIAM MURPHY

TALL SHIPS

GORCH FOCK

4 JUNE 2010

STAVROS S NIARCHOS

FROM FRANCE

THE BELEM TALL SHIP IS A THREE-MASTED BARQUE FROM FRANCE [PHOTOGRAPHED IN CORK RATHER THAN DUBLIN]

TALL SHIPS LEAVING DUBLIN PORT 6 JUNE 2017

TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL IN DUBLIN 3 JUNE 2017

STAVROS S NIARCHOS TALL SHIP VISIT TO DUBLIN 18 OCTOBER 2014

TALL SHIPS IN DUBLIN 6 JUNE 2010

DUBLIN MARITIME FESTIVAL JUNE 2010

TALL SHIPS IN DUBLIN 4 JUNE 2010

GERMAN TALL SHIP GORCH FOCK - DUBLIN 2008

DUBLIN DOCKLANDS MARITIME FESTIVAL 4 JUNE 2007

DUBLIN DOCKLANDS MARITIME FESTIVAL 3 JUNE 2007

By the 21st century, "tall ship" is often used generically for large, classic, sailing vessels, but is also a technically defined term by Sail Training International. The definitions are subject to various technicalities, but by 2011 there are only two size classes, class A is square-rigged vessels and all other vessels over 40 m LOA, and classes B/C/D are 9.14 m to under 40 m LOA. Participating vessels are manned by a largely cadet or trainee crew who are partaking in sail training, 50 percent of which must be aged between 15–25 years of age and who do not need any previous experience. Thus, tall ship does not describe a specific type of sailing vessel, but rather a monohull sailing vessel of at least 9.4 metres (30 ft) that is conducting sail training and education under sail voyages. Participating ships range from yachts to the large square-rigged sail training ships run by charities, schools and navies of many countries.

After World War II, tall ships were a dying breed, having lost out to steam-powered ships several decades before. It was a retired solicitor from London, Bernard Morgan, who first dreamed up the idea of bringing young cadets and seamen under training together from around the world to compete in a friendly competition. The Portuguese Ambassador to the UK, Dr Pedro Theotonio Pereira was a huge supporter of this original idea, and believed such a race would bring together the youth of the world's seafaring peoples. These two figures started discussions in 1953 and three years later they saw their vision become a reality. The first Tall Ships' race was held in 1956. It was a race of 20 of the world's remaining large sailing ships. The race was from Torquay, Devon to Lisbon, and was meant to be a last farewell to the era of the great sailing ships. Public interest was so intense, however, that race organisers founded the Sail Training International association to direct the planning of future events. Since then Tall Ships' Races have occurred annually in various parts of the world, with millions of spectators. Today, the race attracts more than a hundred ships, among these some of the largest sailing ships in existence, like the Portuguese Sagres. The 50th Anniversary Tall Ships' Races took place during July and August, 2006, and was started by the patron, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who also started the first race in 1956.

HISTORY

2017: Halmstad (Sweden) - Kotka (Finland) - Turku (Finland) - Klaipėda (Lithuania) - Szczecin (Poland)
2016: Antwerp (Belgium) - Lisbon (Portugal) - Cádiz (Spain) - A Coruña (Spain) - Blyth (United Kingdom)
2015: Belfast (United Kingdom) - Ålesund (Norway) - Kristiansand (Norway) - Aalborg (Denmark)
2014: Harlingen (Netherlands) - Fredrikstad (Norway) - Bergen (Norway) - Esbjerg (Denmark)
2013: Aarhus (Denmark) - Helsinki (Finland) - Riga (Latvia) - Szczecin (Poland)
2012: Saint-Malo (France) – Lisbon (Portugal) – Cádiz (Spain) – A Coruña – Dublin (Ireland)
2011: Waterford (Ireland) – Greenock (Scotland) – Lerwick (Shetland) – Stavanger (Norway) – Halmstad (Sweden)
2010: Antwerp (Belgium) – Aalborg (Denmark) – Kristiansand (Norway) – Hartlepool (United Kingdom)
2009: Trans-Atlantic: Vigo (Spain) - Tenerife (Canary Islands) - Bermuda - Charleston (United States) - Boston (United States) - Halifax (Canada) - Belfast (United Kingdom)
2009: Baltic: Gdynia (Poland) - St Petersburg (Russia) - Turku (Finland) - Klaipėda (Lithuania)
2008: Liverpool (United Kingdom) - Måløy (Norway) - Bergen (Norway) - Den Helder (Netherlands)
2007: Baltic: Aarhus (Denmark) - Kotka (Finland) - Stockholm (Sweden) - Szczecin (Poland)
2007: Mediterranean: Barcelona (Spain) - Genoa (Italy) - Toulon (France) - Alicante (Spain)
2006: Saint Malo (France) - Lisbon (Portugal) - Cádiz (Spain) - A Coruña (Spain) - Antwerp (Belgium)
2005: Waterford (Ireland) - Cherbourg-Octeville (France) - Newcastle-Gateshead (United Kingdom) - Fredrikstad (Norway) - Torbay (United Kingdom) - Santander (Spain)
2004: Antwerp (Belgium) - Aalborg (Denmark) - Stavanger (Norway) - Cuxhaven (Germany)
2003: Gdynia (Poland) - Turku (Finland) - Riga (Latvia) - Travemünde (Germany)
2002: Alicante (Spain) - Málaga (Spain) - A Coruña (Spain) - Santander (Spain) - Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
2001: Antwerp (Belgium) - Ålesund (Norway) - Bergen (Norway) - Esbjerg (Denmark)
2000: Trans-Atlantic: Southampton (United Kingdom) - Cádiz (Spain) - Genoa (Italy) - Cádiz (Spain) - Bermuda (Bermuda) - Boston (United States) - Halifax (Canada) - Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1999: St Malo (France) - Greenock (United Kingdom) - Lerwick (United Kingdom) - Aalborg (Denmark)
1998: Falmouth (United Kingdom) - Lisbon (Portugal) - Vigo (Spain) - Dublin (Ireland)[4]
1997: Aberdeen (United Kingdom) - Trondheim (Norway) - Stavanger (Norway) - Gothenburg (Sweden)
1996: St Petersburg (Russia) - Kotka (Finland) - Turku (Finland) - Copenhagen (Denmark)

SOME TALL SHIPS WHICH TOOK PART IN THE TALL SHIPS RACE

Alexander von Humboldt - German Barque (Converted to a botel by 2014).
Amerigo Vespucci - Italian Navy training ship.
Asgard II - Irish sail training ship (lost 2008).
Astrid - Dutch tall ship (lost 2013).
Atyla
Auno - a Norwegian gaff ketch.
Belle Poule (built in 1932) - French Navy training schooner which together with the Etoile, its sister ship, has been participating to the Tall Ship Race since 1958. In 2009, the Belle Poule and the Etoile crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time during the Tall Ship Atlantic Challenge.
Challenge Wales - Wales' Tall Ship. Took part in its first Tall Ships Regatta in 2012 and its first Tall Ships Race in 2016.
Christian Radich - Norwegian full-rigged training ship; her homeport is Oslo.
Cisne Branco - Brazilian full-rigged training ship.
Concordia - Canadian Barquentine (lost 2010).
UAM Creoula - a four-masted Portuguese sail training ship
Cuauhtémoc - Mexican Navy officer-training ship (winner on two occasions).[PHOTOGRAPHS]
Danmark - Danish full-rigged training ship build in Nakskov, Denmark 1933.
Dar Młodzieży - a three-masted Polish full-rigged ship (built in 1982).
Dar Pomorza - winner of 1972 and 1980 races, a three-masted Polish full-rigged ship (built in 1909, decommissioned in 1980 and replaced by the Dar Mlodziezy, see above).
Eagle - training vessel for the U.S. Coast Guard, most recently participated in 2005.
Eendracht - Dutch schooner owned by Stichting het Zeilend Zeeschip (Foundation the Sailing Seaship).
Schooner Ernestina - the official vessel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Esmeralda - Training vessel for the Chilean Navy, won in 1982 and 1990.
Étoile - French Navy training schooner which together with the Belle Poule, its sister ship, has been participating to the Tall Ship Race since 1958. In 2009, the Etoile and the Belle Poule crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time during the Tall Ship Atlantic Challenge.
Eye of the Wind - participated several times while operated by Adventure under Sail between 1973 and 2000
HMS Falken - a two-masted Swedish Naval training schooner.
Far Barcelona - an 1874 jackt restored at the Consorci El Far as vessel school, Barcelona-Spain.
Georg Stage - Danish Ship.
HMS Gladan - a two-masted Swedish Naval training schooner.
Gloria - Colombian Barque.
Golden Quest - a three-masted Swedish barque.
Gorch Fock (built in 1958).
Gulden leeuw - a three-masted Dutch topsail schooner.
Iskra - Polish Barquentine.
Jens Krogh - a Danish gaff ketch.
Johann Smidt (ex Eendracht) (German Wikipedia) - a two-masted German schooner, class B (length between 30.5 and 46.5 m) winner in 1992 and 2000.
Jolie Brise - a French pilot cutter, three times winner of the Fastnet Ocean Race, two times overall winner of the Tall Ships' Races. Owned maintained and sailed by Dauntsey's School.
Juan de Lángara - Spanish training schooner, won the Friend's Ships Throphy in 2006 and is a regular participant in Tall Ships Races from 1995.
Kaliakra - Bulgarian.
Kruzenshtern - Russian four-masted barque, one of the last genuine windjammers under sail.
Libertad - Argentine Ship.
LOA (da)- a Danish barquentine first entered in 2009.
Lord Nelson - British Barque.
STS Lord Nelson - Jubilee Sailing Trust - Southampton.
Maybe - a 1920s Dutch sailing ketch which took part in the first tall ships race. [PHOTOGRAPHS]
Mercator - a Belgian merchant marine three-masted barquentine, winner of the Oslo ~ Oostende race in 1960.
STS Mir - a three-masted Russian training ship.
Mircea - a three-masted Romanian sail training ship.
Moosk - a 100-year-old Cornish Yawl.
Morgenster - a Dutch brig.
Morning Star of Revelation - a British 62 ft (19 m) gaff ketch.
Mutin - French Navy's oldest training ship which was used during WW2 as an operational unit by the British Special Operations Executives (SOE).
Ocean Scout - a Bermuda rigged Oyster 49 ketch launched in 1994 operated by the UK scout sail training charity, Adventures Offshore. It is the elder sister ship to Offshore Scout.
Offshore Scout - a Bermuda rigged Oyster 49 ketch launched in 1997 operated by the UK scout sail training charity, Adventures Offshore. It is the elder sister ship to Ocean Scout.
Pelican of London - a UK main-mast barquentine. [PHOTOGRAPHS]
Pogoria - a three-masted Polish barquentine (built in 1980).
Prince William
Roald Amundsen - a German brig ST G 508.
TS Royalist - TS Royalist is a brig owned and operated as a sail training ship by the Sea Cadet Corps of the United Kingdom tall ships.
Sagita - a Danish schooner.
NRP Sagres - Portuguese training ship.
Sedov - Russian Barque.
Seute Deern II (ex Noona Dan) (German Wikipedia) - a two-masted German ketch, former school ship.
Shtandart - replica of a Russian 18-th century frigate (built in 1999).
Skibladner II - a Danish gaff ketch
The Sørlandet - Norway, the oldest operative full-rigged ship in the world.
Stad Amsterdam - Dutch clipper, built as a charter and cruise ship. She won in 2001.
Statsraad Lehmkuhl - a three-masted Norwegian barque whose homeport is Bergen.
Stavros S Niarchos - British sail training ship.
The Swan - Shetland ship.
Swan fan Makkum - Dutch Brigantine.
INS Tarangini - a three-masted Indian barque.
Tecla" Dutch Ketch.
SV Tenacious - Jubilee Sailing Trust - Southampton.
HMS Trincomalee - Britain's oldest warship afloat. Will remain in Hartlepool.
Vega Gamleby - Swedish schooner, regular participant since 2013.
Windrose (of Amsterdam) - Fastest on the line, 2003.