40" L

The "REALE" in the name points out that she belonged to the king personally. The ship was decorated by the sculptor Pierre Puget. Some of the stern ornaments are shown in the Musée de la Marine in Paris, which also holds the original plans and many documents about the ship.

39" long
 

This is the official ship to transport the English Royal family.  It had several important design features and was the most advanced ship at the time.
                          
 

39" L

"She was always an uncommonly weatherly ship ... rolls easy, makes nine and even ten knots close-hauled on a brisk topgallant breeze, steers easy, wears quick, lies to perfectly well under maincourse and mizzen staysail, fore-reaching prodigiously all the while - amazing great wash." Jack Aubrey.

                                            

36" L

In an historic naval fight, the 20-gun Mercury defeated two finest Turkey ships with a combination of 184 guns.  Captained the Mercury was 28-years old captain-lieutenant Kazarsky who was considered the bravest officer of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. 
                                            

36" L

USS Austin was the first ship named for Steven F. Austin, a Texas patriot.  After her, there are two more ships bearing that name. 
                                            

39" L
 

Amerigo Vespucci was built in 1930. She is the largest of the full rigged ships used by the navies of the world for sail-training, the ‘Amerigo Vespucci’ was named for the Italian navigator and explorer who lived in the 15th century and for whom America was named!    SOLD. Wish list
 

HMS St. George was named for the patron saint of England.  In 1801, she was Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship prior to the Battle of Copenhagen; he transferred his flag to HMS Elephant, whose lighter draft enabled him to sail closer inshore for the bombardment of the Danish capital on April 2. In 1811, St. George was the flagship of Rear Admiral Robert Reynolds's Baltic Fleet.   SOLD.  Wish list
 

Essex was  the first Yankee warship that captured a ship of the Royal Navy. During her first eight weeks at sea, she had taken nine British ships.  In 17 months  she went on to sweep the Pacific of British whalers,  merchantmen, and warships, taking 16 vessels in all.
 

150-year old sloop-of-war, the last all-sail ship built by the U.S. Navy.  The first U.S. Navy ship to bear the name Constellation, for the "new constellation of stars" on the American flag.   SOLD OUT   Wish list

Named in honor of the Sun King Louis XIV, Soleil Royal was the symbol of grace and capacity. As the flagship of the French Navy, Soleil Royal was sumptuously decorated with wooden carvings that depicted a variety of motifs symbolic of the French monarch.
 

Potosi was a five-masted full-rigged ship built in 1895. Equipped with a patented brace winches for the lower, top-sail yards and a patent for the fall winches, she was able to take 6,000 tons of cargo!  She proved herself very profitable.  Potosi had a total sail-area of 59,770 sq. feet!
 

Queen Anne's Revenge was the largest pirate ships to ever sail the Spanish Main.  No ship played a more dramatic role in the history of piracy in the Americas. Blackbeard used her as his prime weapon during the height of his reign of terror. During the 7 months that Blackbeard commanded her, she took a whooping 18 ships.
 

36" long
32" tall

36" long
 

36" L

This small and sturdy 200 ton-cargo vessel-with not even the barest amenities of a passenger ship-- managed to carry a courageous band of 200 Scots to a safe landing  in Pictou harbor, marking the beginning of a stead stream of Highland emigration to the area that became known as Nova Scota on Canada's Atlantic coast.  A full-sized replica of the Hector has been built to sail again.   
                                           

21" L

Put under Captain John P. Rathbun, Providence made two more coastal cruises before sailing again for the Bahamas in early 1778. Through a series of brilliant stratagems, Rathbun took and held the town for three days (January 27 to 30) during which time he spiked the guns of Fort Nassau, seized 1,600 pounds of gunpowder, took 6 British prizes, and freed 30 American prisoners, all without bloodshed. She returned to Rhode Island unscathed on January 30, 1779.
                                                                                                                          

39" L

At the Battle of Trafalgar, on October 21, 1805,  she was closely engaged by HMS Victory.  Her crew fiercely attacked the Victory, causing much damage. The crew and soldiers maintained a heavy fire on the quarterdeck with hand-grenades and small arms, and a French marksman mortally wounded Admiral Horatio Nelson from the fighting top.

The French crew were about to board the Victory but the HMS Temeraire intervened, firing on the exposed French crew at point blank range. At 1.55 p.m., the Redoutable, with Captain Lucas severely wounded, and only 99 men still fit out of 643, slowly sinking and with no hope of rescue, struck her colors.

The Victory had 160 casualties, and the Temeraire, 120. The Redoutable sank the next day.

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39" L

Océan was a 118-gun first-rate three-decker ship of the line of the French Navy launched at Brest in 1790. 

Designed by the engineer Jacques-Noël Sané, who was nicknamed "The Naval Vauban", Océan marks a step in the evolution of ship of the line design.  All further French sail battleships were inspired from her plans. The hull was simple with straight lines, minimal ornaments, and curved sides. The rear was almost integrated into the hull. The performances of such vessels were almost comparable to those of a frigate. English shipyards of the time copied the French vessels which they captured.

The masts were both thinner and higher but stronger than the 18th century designs. The aft sail of the mizzen had taken its definitive shape around 1780; Topgallant sails were common, which allowed to vary the surface of sails according to the wind with more subtlety. This allowed to evolve closer to the direction opposed to the wind.

As the largest ship of the line in the Brest fleet, the ship spent much of her early career as the fleet flagship. She was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse in the Battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794. A year later, now renamed Océan she fought in the Battle of Groix as Villaret's flagship.  She served until 1855.  

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39" L

...Fell in with 4 British frigates, to which the " President " was obliged to surrender after a most obstinate resistance, which one frigate, the "Endymion," was so cut up as to be obliged to haul out (or she drifted out) of action.

The "President " was not surrendered until she was surrounded by the three other frigates the" Majestic," the "Pomone," and the "Tenedos" and when her decks had the appearance of a slaughterhouse. She had 25 killed and sixty wounde done quarter of her crew.

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39" L

39" L

On June 1st, 1813, at 5:30 p.m., the "Chesapeake" was heading right for the "Shannon".  Although the American broadsides were inflicting heavy damage on the British frigate, the "Chesapeake" also suffered greatly from the British guns. Minutes later with her jib sheet and foretop sail tie shot away, the "Chesapeake" was exposed to the "Shannon's" heavy broadsides which inflicted heavy casualties on the American crew. At 6:00 p.m. the two frigates lashed together. On board the "Chesapeake" Captain Lawrence was shot down, he was carried below exclaiming "Don't Give Up The Ship"...

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39" L

The English felt that if they could get off five 18 pound shots for every three 24 pound shots then they would cause more damage faster. The British were to learn the hard way how wrong this belief was.  In the fight between the HMS Macedon and the USS United States.

The "United States" was commanded by Stephen Decatur. Decatur had made a name for himself when he boarded the captured "Philadelphia"  and burned her. In Admiral Nelson's view, it was "the most daring act of the age.".

The "United States" sailed SE towards Madeira. On the morning of Oct. 25th 1812 the crew sighted the "HMS Macedonian".

Captain Carden decided he had to close with the Americans and fight at a shorter range.  However, Decatur manoeuvred the "United States" so the British could not get any closer.

The British losses were 36 dead and 68 wounded. The American losses were 7 dead and 5 wounded.

36" L

H.M.S. Diana was a frigate in Admiral Nelson's time. She was launched in 1794.  She was a versatile ship and used by the British in many ways during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1815 she was sold to the Dutch navy. On 27 August 1816 she was one of six Dutch frigates that participated in the bombardment of Algiers. By an accident she was destroyed in dry-dock on 16 January 1839 after 45 years of active carrier. 

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39" L
Scale 1:125
 

Great Britain was by far the largest ship in the world at that time.  She was the world's first steamship with a hull made of iron.  She also was the first propeller-driven ship to achieve the Atlantic crossing.

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41" L

Scale 1:125
 

The pride of Queen Victoria, Warrior was constructed entirely of iron--a first for a warship in response to the French Gloire in the 19th century arms race.  The British Battleship HMS Warrior never fired a shot in anger and never blockaded a hostile port, yet she played a famous part in naval history. 

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26" L

Scale 1:125
 

Built between 1509 and 1511, she was one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and was a firm favourite of King Henry VIII.  

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26" L

Scale 1:125
 

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26" L

Scale 1:125
 

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36" long
 

Intrepid was a 64-ton, four-gun ketch, originally built in France in 1798. She was subsequently sold to Tripoli, renamed Mastico, and used by the Barbary Pirates based there to capture the USS Philadelphia on October 31, 1803. She was captured by USS Enterprise on December 23 of that year. She was placed under the command of Lieutenant Stephen Decatur.  On the night of February 16, 1804, Decatur and his men sailed Intrepid into Tripoli harbor, boarded the ex-American frigate Philadelphia which at that time was the greatest threat to , and set her afire. Tripoli harbor was fairly shallow and only a shallow draught ship could have made the daring plan work. While the attackers made good their escape, the Philadelphia burned and sank.  In Admiral Nelson's view, it was "the most daring act of the age."

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36" L

HMS Terror was 102 feet long, 27 feet wide.  She was armed with two long six-pounders, eight twenty-four pounders, and two mortars, a 10 inch and a 13 inch. She could fire a round from each mortar every five minutes. 

Terror saw war service in the the 1st Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and War of 1812 against the United States.

As highly specialized warships, the Terror was expensive to fit out and maintain. But, because its extremely strong hulls to withstand the recoil of the mortars, the ship was converted in time of peace to explore the Antarctic region, where pack ice and iceberg were a constant menace. Ironically, in this case, the volcano Mount Terror on Ross Island in Antarctica was named after the ship, instead of vice-versa. The expedition spanned three seasons from 1840 to 1843. 

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36" L

The English flagship in the battle of Armada.  The first of the new "race-built" vessels to grace the English fleet.   Regarded as one of the finest galleons in the world. 

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36" L

Captain Cook's second voyage took the ship into the Southern Pacific, where the she became the first ship to cross the Antarctic circle.  On Cook's third voyage, Resolution brought the first Europeans to Hawaiian islands...

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36" L

During the Revolutionary War, the famous captain John Paul Jones sailed to France in the Ranger carrying word of General Burgoyne's historic surrender at Saratoga.  As his ship intered Quiberon Bay on Feb 14, 1778, Jones fired 13 guns and received in return a rousing salute from the French fleet marking the first time that the new American flag-the Stars and Stripes- was officially acknowledged by a foreign power.  It was also abroad the Ranger, later the same year, that Jones launched the series of bold sea raids along the British coast that earned him his distinguished reputation as a fearless seaman.           

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36" L

At 11:30 a.m. the Frolic and the Swap were sailing no more than 60 yards apart. The British ship fired rapidly, delivering three broadsides to the American's two. Both crews cheered wildly as the battle became heated. The "Wasp" was landing more shot than the British ship. The ocean was very rough, the crew of the "Frolic" fired their cannon when they were on the crest of the waves. The Americans fired their guns on the lower part of the waves. But in spite of the weather both ships fire was well directed. At 11:36 a.m. the "Wasp's" maintop-mast was shot away and fell with it's yard. At 11:46 a.m. her mizzentop -gallant mast came down and by 11:52 every brace and most of her rigging had been shot away. The British ship however, had been severely damaged in her hull and lower masts...     

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36" L

Not one Englishman was there to stop the crew of the "Wasp" from boarding. The man at the wheel was dazed but still at his post. Captain Whinyates and Lieutenant Wintle were wounded so severely that they could not stand without support. The crew of the "Frolic" could not fight any longer and Lieutenant Biddle lowered the flag at 12:15 just 43 minutes after the battle had started. The American ship had been damaged severely in her rigging but only two or three shots struck her hull.

The American's had 5 killed and 5 wounded. The British had 30 killed and 60 wounded.

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36" L

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36" L

39" L

This famous ship will always be associated with Captain Sir Edward Pellew who, many years later, became an admiral and was raised to the peerage as Lord Exmouth.  She was built as a 64 gun ship of the line and launched in 1784.  In 1794, she had an entire gun deck removed to convert her into a powerful frigate, while retaining her twenty-six 24 pdrs on her lower deck with 18pdrs on her quarterdeck and forecastle. 
Pellew took command of the ship in 1795.  At that time he was the most distinghuished frigate captain in the Navy. 

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39" L

Neptune served as the flagship for Rear Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane leading the fleet that captured the French colony of Martinique in the West Indies in 1809.

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30" L

26" L or 38" L

HMS Sirius was the lead ship of the first fleet.

In 1788, HMS Sirius circumnavigated the globe to obtain provisions from Cape Town in South Africa to save the fledgling colony of New South Wales from starvation. 

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28" L or 42" L

44" long
 

The most powerful tall ship of the French Royal Navy, carrying a whooping number of  120 guns! 
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39" L

36" L

36" L

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39" L

44" L

Santísima Trinidad remains famous as the only four-decker ship of the line ever built; although the British designed one, Duke of Kent, they never built her.

In July 1779, Spain declared war on Great Britain, joining France in support of the American colonists in the American War of Independence. Santísima Trinidad became the flagship of the Spanish fleet, taking part in the Franco-Spanish operations in the English Channel in the late summer of that year. In 1780 she took part in the capture of an English convoy of 51 ships.

She was the flagship at Battle of Cape St Vincent on 14 February 1797, where she was badly damaged. She was first in action with the British ship Captain, 74, commanded by Commodore Nelson, and Culloden, 74. She was then attacked by the Blenheim, 90, Orion, 74, Irresistable, 74 and Excellent, 74. By now she was severely damaged, having lost all her masts and with half of her crew killed or wounded. The British failed to take possession and she was saved by the Pelayo, 74 and Principe de Asturias, 112. Several days later, Santísima Trinidad was spotted, making her way back to Spain, and engaged by the frigate Terpsichore, 32, but she escaped. She eventually returned to Cadiz for repairs.

Eight years later, she took part in the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805. Her great size and position immediately ahead of the fleet flagship Bucentaure made her a target for the British fleet, and she came under concentrated attack by several ships. She lost her mast and eventually surrendered to the Neptune. She was taken in tow by the Prince, but sank in a storm the day after the battle.

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36" L

34" L

36" L

26"

26" L or 39"

26" L or 39"

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26" L or 39"

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26" L or 39"

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28" L or 42" L

36" L

36" L

36" L

Corsair had a celebrated career both as the personal yacht of the financier and philanthropist and as a commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy. During Morgan's tenure as commodore of the New York Yacht Club in 1897-98, Corsair served as flagship of that distinguished fleet. It is interesting to note that despite her great size (218'), she was by no means the largest yacht in the club. That same year, there were four vessels longer than 300 feet: W. K. Vanderbilt's Valiant (332 feet), Ogden Goulet's Mayflower (320 feet) and Nahma (306 feet), and Eugene Higgins's Varuna (304 feet).

At the start of the Spanish-American War, in April 1898 Morgan presented Corsair to the U.S. Navy. She was commissioned as USS Gloucester under command of Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright. Fitted with four 6-pdr. guns, she joined the Blockading Squadron of the North Atlantic Fleet. At the Battle of Santiago Bay on July 3, she helped sink the Spanish torpedo boats Pluton and Furor. She was later credited with the single-handed capture of Guanica, Puerto Rico, and aided in the capture of Arroyo. Following the war, Gloucester served as a Naval Academy training ship, and between 1902 and 1905 sailed in the West Indies and South America as tender to the Commander in Chief, South Atlantic Squadron. After service with the New York and Massachusetts state militias, Gloucester was recommissioned in 1917. Sold out of the service in 1919, she was wrecked in a hurricane off Pensacola, Florida.

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24" or 36" L

36" L

After the war, Luckner became world famous for his exploits and chivalrous manner.  He captured sixteen ships of 30,099 gross tons without killing any Allied sailor.

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36" L

The Californian is a replica of the 1847 Revenue Cutter C.W. Lawrence, that patrolled the coast of California enforcing federal law during the gold rush. The Revenue Cutter Service, along with four other federal maritime agencies, was consolidated into the United States Coast Guard in 1915.

Designed for speed, Californian has nine sails, carries 7,000 square feet of canvas, measures 145 feet in length, weighs 130 tons and is armed with four six-pound deck guns. She casts a distinctive and instantly recognizable silhouette and has become one of the most well known tall ships in America.

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36" L

It doesn't take much imagination to feel like a pirate onboard Royal Clipper, the ultimate sailing experience in today's cruise market. From our first sail away, it was obvious that our Captain loved to show off the ship's sail power. Watching 42 sails unfurl one by one is an impressive sight. The sounds of squeaking lines, hundreds of yards of Dacron flapping in the wind, and symphonic background music are the stuff of daydreams. When totally unfurled, the total sail area spreads 54,000 sq. ft. Royal Clipper accommodates 228 lucky passengers.

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