Tall Ships Photos from Philadelphia and Camden
Ships from outside of the United States include:
- Grand Nellie of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, was built in 1998 and is a topsail schooner. She is a classic schooner whose designers combined traditional Maine schooner lines with modern technology to achieve maximum comfort, safety, and technology. She offers tall ship sailing experience for beginner to advanced sailors of all ages and abilities through offshore and multiple day voyages.
- Iskra, a Polish barquentine that is named for the historically important Polish schooner of the early twentieth century. Her official name is ORP Iskra (Officers Reserve of Poland) in honor of the Westerplattes Heroes Naval Academy of Gdynia whom she represents. She was also designed by Zygmunt Choren and represents the Republic of Poland on official visits.
- Pogoria, a Polish barquentine with a homeport of Gdynia, Poland. Pogoria is the first completed design for a square-rigger by Polish naval architect Zygmunt Choren. She was built for the Steel Workers Union in 1980 and is now the flagship of the Polish Sail Training Association in Gdansk.
- Tenacious of Southampton, UK, a 213-foot three-masted barque, is the Jubilee Sailing Trust's second ship and the largest wooden tall ship of her kind to be built in Great Britain this century. She sails around the world with a crew of both able-bodied and disabled people who voyage together with the assistance of signs in Braille, power-assisted hydraulic steering, and several places for wheelchairs to be stored during rough weather.
- Unicorn, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, a topsail schooner that was originally used for a fishing vessel and converted into a sailing ship in 1979. She is currently owned and operated by Dawn and Jay Sanatamaria and their professional crew. She sails the waters of the Great Lakes, Atlantic and Caribbean while offering sail training programs.
- Zenobe Gramme of Belgium, a ketch that was built in 1961 in the BOEL shipyards in Temse. She was an oceanographic research vessel but is now used as a training and public relations vessel. She is named after the inventor of the dynamo, Belgian Zenobe Gramme. Her famous spinnaker bears the coat of arms of the Belgium royal family.
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