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PELICAN OF LONDON is unique among Square Riggers. Her hull form was derived from the elite French clippers of the late 19th century, with a length to breadth ratio of 5:1, a flared bow, fine entry and run. A long poop deck has been added which provides exceptional space and comfort for worldwide operation. Her […]

The history of the sailing ship ARC Gloria began in 1966, when the Colombian Government, by means of Decree Number 111, authorized the National Navy with Vice Admiral Orlando Lemaitre Torres as its Commanding Officer, to acquire a sailing vessel like a three-masted Barque to become the Training Ship of the Colombian Navy. It is […]

Zarco belongs to the Portuguese Navy, and will participate in The Tall Ships Races 2016 for the first time. She and Polar sail in the region of the Iberian Peninsula, and the concept of use is weekend sailing during school time and holiday sailing for 4 or 5 weeks.

B.A.P. Unión is the first sail training ship of the Peruvian Navy. It acts as a training vessel for officers and naval cadets and as a sailing ambassador, promoting Peru in its various voyages around the world. It was launched in 2015 after a three year building project that took place in Spain. In 2017, […]

Capitan Miranda was launched in Spain in 1930 and began her career as a cargo vessel. She is named after the Uruguayan hydrographer Captain Francisco Miranda (1868-1925) who served Uruguay as a cabinet officer, war secretary and later professor of marine geography at the Naval Academy of Uruguay. Captain Miranda was used as a hydrographic […]

Gretel is a family boat used mostly for cruising but sometimes also for commercial activities. Quite often we sail having 3 generations of family members onboard in the crew. Winter homeport is Tallinn Kakumäe, during summer days the boat is mostly in Finland to enjoy the archipelagos and little friendly marinas of Finland. 

S/y Henrika is a sea scout training vessel owned and operated by a Finnish sea scout troop “Kupittaan Henrikinpojat ry”. Her home port is Turku in South-Western Finland. Henrika has taken part in Tall Ships’ Races in Baltic Sea Region since 1996. The vessel and the whole scout troop are operated entirely on voluntary basis.

Built by hand in Spain between 1980 and 1984, ATYLA is one of the very few handmade wooden-hulled Tall Ships in the world that is still in operation. “ATYLA International Training Ship Foundation” is a not-for-profit organisation registered in Spain. The ship is still owned and operated by the same family who built her over […]

PNS Rah Naward (which means "Swift Mover") was built as a sail training ship for the UK’s Sail Training Association and named Prince William (a sister ship to the Stavros S Niarchos built at the same time for the same organisation).  Both hulls had been built in Germany in 1996, but their completion as brigantines […]

Roald Amundsen was built in 1952 in Roblau/Elbe as a NVA tank logger for the former GDR’s National People’s Army. In 1992, the boat builder Detlev L ll and his friends from the society `Learn to Live on Sailing Ships` turned her into a brig as part of a programme against unemployment. Roald Amundsen made […]

Built as a Fifie herring drifter in Lerwick, Shetland in 1900, the Swan was one of the vast fleet of wooden vessels fidhing for herring in the early 20th century.  Fitted with an engine in 1935, the Swan continued to drift net for herring during the summer months and fish for white fish in the […]

Dar Szczecina is owned by the City of Szczecin in Poland and has undertaken many Tall Ships’ Races since 1976, normally manned by students from the city. The vessel’s name means “gift of Szczecin”.

Atene was built in Svendborg in Denmark in 1909 and called Emanuel. Atene now sails from May to October principally with school classes but she can also be chartered privately. The aim of the organisation is to maintain old sailing ship traditions and to teach young people seamanship as practised in the past.