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JSASTC presently operates 30 sail training vessels of which two are ocean-going Challenge 72s,  15 are Victoria 34s, 10 are Hallberg Rassey 342s, one a Comfortina 42 and 2  are folk boats. JSASTC arranges expeditions and adventurous sail training for all the UK Armed Forces, and this includes leader training and development.  Based in Gosport, […]

Hawila was built in Risor, Norway in 1935 as a cargo ship. Oak was used for the hull and frames. She was built for the Bryngelsson family from Ockero, outside Gothenburg in Sweden.  During Hawila’s days as a cargo ship she transported ice and grain for the North Sea fish harbours until the end of the […]

Penlena has been involved in Sail Training for most of her recent existence. Firstly under her former name “Gunna”  in the London Sailing project as part of the Greater London Council’s flotilla, giving young offenders the opportunity to lift their horizons by learning everything being at sea under sail has to offer.  More recently she […]

S/y Anya was built in Turku, Finland, and it was launched in 1998. The first long sailing tour took the yacht via United Kingdom to Canarian Islands and from there to Caribbean and further to Venezuela along Rio Orinoco. On the way there, Anya participated in ARC-99 competition being the second to cross the line […]

The construction of a sailing school for the Navy of Ecuador responded to an aspiration long cherished by many fans to the practice of sailing, official, in love the wind and the sea, but above all convinced that this type of ship would be an ideal medium for the formation of the marine in the […]

Gratitude was built in Porthleven, 1903 as a sailing trawler. She was sold to Sweden in 1932 and to Svenska Kryssarklubbens Seglarskola (the Swedish Cruising Club Sail Training Foundation) in 1957. Since 1959 Gratitude has been sailing with teenage and adult trainees during summer months, and charter with schools and companies during spring and autumn. […]

Duet is a wooden gaff rigged yawl. She was built on the River Itchen, Southampton in 1912 and originally called Gaviota. A famous explorer Augustine Courtauld bought her in the 1930’s and renamed her Duet. When he died in 1959, ownership of Duet passed to Augustines son, the Revd Christopher Courtauld who together with Christopher […]

Dewaruci was built in 1952 by H C Stulcken & Sohn Hamburg, West Germany, and launched on 24 January 1953. She sailed to Indonesia with Indonesian naval officers and cadets. The ship has been used as a training ship in the Indonesian Naval Academy based in Surabaya. The mission of KRI Dewaruci is to: – […]

Caroline was built in 1885 in Kristiansand at Sterkoder yard,  by the famous boatbuilder John Borve.  Originally named Trine, she was built as a sailing cargo vessel, mostly used to buy stockfish in Lofoten, northern Norway, sailed to Bergen or Kristiansand to sell the fish, returning with general cargo.   The first engine was installed […]

Kruzenshtern is the second largest sailing ship in the world behind another Russian ship, Sedov. Originally called Padua, she was built in Germany in the 1920’s as one of five clipper ships for the “Flying P Line” which traded in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Pacific. The five ships’ names all began with “P” and […]

Statsraad Lehmkuhl is a three-masted steel barque, built in 1914 in Bremerhaven, Germany as a training ship for the German merchant navy and originally called Grossherzog Friedrich August.She was used as a stationary school ship in Germany for most of the First World War, becoming a trophy of war at the end of the war. […]

THALASSA was originally built in 1980 in Harlingen, Holland, but after she sank in 1985 was bought by Arnold Hilkema and Jacob Jan Dam who totally rebuilt and refitted her. She was relaunched in 1995. 2004 was the first year she competed in The Tall Ships Races.

Miraie, formerly Akogare. was built in 1993 by the city of Osaka as the first and only tall ship owned by a Japanese local government. She was named Akogare, which means the yearning, as a result of a naming competition which attracted 7,000 entries. She started official sail training programmes in 1994, visiting China, Guam, […]