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| x Balclutha |
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Balclutha, also known as Star of Alaska, Pacific Queen, or Sailing Ship BALCLUTHA, is a steel-hulled full rigged ship that was built in 1886. She is the only square rigged ship left in the San Francisco Bay area and is representative of several...
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| x HM Bark Endeavour |
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HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 to 1771.
Launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke,...
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| x USS Constellation |
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USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war, and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. According to the US Naval Registry, the original frigate was disassembled on 25 June 1853, in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk,...
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| x James Craig |
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The James Craig is a three-masted, iron-hulled barque restored and sailed by the Sydney Maritime Museum.
Built in 1874 in Sunderland, England, by Bartram, Haswell, & Co., she was originally named the Clan Macleod. She was employed carrying cargo...
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| x Irving Johnson |
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The twin brigantines Irving Johnson and Exy Johnson are the flagships of the Los Angeles Maritime Institute's (LAMI) TopSail Youth program, a non-profit organization created as a character building organization to help at risk youth prepare for life...
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| x Lynx |
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Lynx is a square topsail schooner based in Newport Beach, California. She is an interpretation of an American letter of marque vessel of the same name from 1812. The original Lynx completed one voyage, running the Royal Navy blockade; the British...
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| x Earl of Pembroke |
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Earl of Pembroke is a tall ship, currently being used for historical films. She can also be rented for excursions.
She was built in Pukavik, Sweden as "Orion" in 1945 or 1948, available sources disagree. Until 1974, the ship was used to haul timber...
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| x Kaskelot |
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Kaskelot is the flagship of the Square Sail fleet and is based out of her homeport of Charlestown, Cornwall, UK (though registered to Bristol). She is a three-masted barque and one of the largest remaining wooden ships in commission. The Kaskelot...
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| x Phoenix |
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The Phoenix was built by Hjorne & Jakobsen at Frederikshavn, Denmark in 1929 as an Evangelical Mission Schooner.
Twenty years later she retired from missionary work and carried cargo until her engine room was damaged by fire. In 1974 she was bought...
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| x Glenlee |
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Glenlee is a three-masted baldheaded steel-hulled barque, launched fully rigged and seaworthy on December 3, 1896. She is now a museum ship at Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow, known as The Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour.
Glenlee was built in 1896 at the...
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| x Gorch Fock |
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The Gorch Fock is a tall ship of the German Navy (Deutsche Marine). She is the second ship of that name and a sister ship of the Gorch Fock built in 1933. Both ships are named in honor of the German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pseudonym ...
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| x Kaisei |
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The STS Kaisei (海星), meaning “Sea Star” in the Japanese language, is a fast and capable steel hulled brigantine designed by Zygmunt Choreń and built in Gdańsk, Poland in 1987. A two-masted vessel, square rigged on the foremast, with fore-and-aft...
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| x Ship |
A fully rigged ship, in tall ship terms, has three masts, all square-rigged.
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| x Peking |
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The Peking is a steel-hulled four-masted barque — the sister ship to the Passat. A so-called Flying P-Liner of the German company F. Laeisz, it was one of the last generation of windjammers used in the nitrate trade and wheat trade around the often...
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| x Amerigo Vespucci |
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The Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Marina Militare, named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Its home port is Livorno, Italy. As of 2008, she is still in use as a school ship.
In 1925, the Regia Marina ordered two school ships to be built...
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| x Brigantine |
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In sailing, a brigantine is a vessel with two masts, only the forward of which is square rigged.
Originally the brigantine was a small ship carrying both oars and sails. It was a favorite of Mediterranean pirates and its name comes from the Italian...
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| x Course |
In sailing, a course sail is the principal sail on a mast.
This term is used predominantly on square rigged vessels, referring to the largest and lowest sail on each mast (mizzen-course, main-course and fore-course). Gaff-rigged vessels might...
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| x Full rigged ship |
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A full rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with three or more masts, all of them square rigged. A full rigged ship is said to have a ship rig.
Sometimes such a vessel will merely be called a ship, particularly in 18th to early 19th...
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| x Escuela Naval Militar |
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The Escuela Naval Militar de Oficiales (ENM) at Marín, Pontevedra, in north-western Spain, is the Spanish institution in charge of training the Spanish Navy's officer class, as well as other naval personnel. It has been established here since 1943,...
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| x Juan Sebastián Elcano |
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The Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship for the Royal Spanish Navy. She is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled schooner. At 113 metres (370 feet) long, she is the third-largest Tall Ship in the world.
She is named after Spanish explorer Juan...
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| x Mast |
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The mast of a sailing ship is a tall, vertical, or near vertical, spar, or arrangement of spars, which supports the sails. Large ships have several masts, with the size and configuration depending on the style of ship.
Until the 20th century, ships'...
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| x Barquentine |
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A barquentine (also spelled barkentine) is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts. See also sail-plan. Barquentines emerged as very popular rigs at the end of...
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| x Staysail |
A staysail is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast.
Most staysails are triangular, however some are four...
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| x RV Oceania |
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RV Oceania, or SY Oceania, is a tall ship, owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and used as a research vessel.
She was built in 1985 in the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland, after the design of Zygmunt Choreń. The hull was based on plans of earlier...
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| x Rigging |
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Rigging (from Anglo-Saxon wrigan or wringing, "to clothe") is the apparatus through which the force of the wind is used to propel sailboats and sailing ships forward. This includes masts, yardarms, sails, and cordage.
Rigging is the mechanical...
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| x Polacca |
A polacca is a type of seventeenth-century sailing vessel, similar to the xebec. The polacca was frequently seen in the Mediterranean. It sports three single-pole masts, often with a lateen hoisted on the foremast (which is slanted forward to...
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| x National Maritime Museum |
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The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, England is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world. The historic buildings forming part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site,...
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| x Vancouver Maritime Museum |
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The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a Maritime museum devoted to presenting the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Canadian Arctic. About to celebrate its 50th year of operating it is located just west of False Creek on the...
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| x Western Australian Museum |
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The Western Australian Museum is the main museum for the state of Western Australia.
Established in 1891, the museum is situated in the Cultural Centre, Perth. The museum falls under the responsibility of the Western Australia Department of Culture...
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| x Maritime Museum of the Atlantic |
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The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a Canadian maritime museum located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a member institution of the Nova Scotia Museum and is the oldest and largest maritime museum in Canada...
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| x Australian National Maritime Museum |
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The Australian National Maritime Museum, a maritime museum operated as a statutory authority of the Australian Government, is located at Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales.
The ANMM's main exhibits are housed in a building that has galleries...
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| x Queensland Maritime Museum |
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The Queensland Maritime Museum is located on the southern bank of the Brisbane River just south of the South Bank Parklands precinct of Brisbane, and close to the Goodwill Bridge.
The museum was founded in 1971 and contains a two level exhibition...
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| x Scottish Maritime Museum |
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The Scottish Maritime Museum has three sites in the West of Scotland, all with strong maritime connections. The museums located in Irvine, Dumbarton and Braehead portray a different aspect of Scotland’s maritime heritage.
Located on the south bank...
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| x Wisconsin Maritime Museum |
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The Wisconsin Maritime Museum is a maritime museum founded in 1968 as the Manitowoc Maritime Museum to ensure that the maritime heritage of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, U.S., and the Great Lakes would not be forgotten. Since it opened its doors to the...
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| x Baltimore Maritime Museum |
The Baltimore Maritime Museum (BMM) is a maritime museum located in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.
The museum's collection includes three historic museum ships and one lighthouse:
All are listed on the National...
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| x Maritime Museum of San Diego |
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The Maritime Museum of San Diego, established in 1948, preserves one of the largest collections of historic sea vessels in the United States. Located in the San Diego Bay, the centerpiece of the museum's collection is the Star of India, an 1863 iron...
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| x Melbourne Maritime Museum |
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The Melbourne Maritime Museum, managed by the National Trust of Australia, is situated in South Wharf on the Yarra River in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
It is home to the Polly Woodside Barque, the now restored cargo vessel launched...
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| x Merseyside Maritime Museum |
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The Merseyside Maritime Museum is a museum based in the city of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is part of National Museums Liverpool and an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. Opened in 1980 and expanded in 1986, the...
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| x National Maritime Museum, New Zealand |
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The New Zealand National Maritime Museum is New Zealand's premier maritime museum. It is located on Hobson Wharf Auckland, adjacent to Viaduct Harbour. It houses exhibitions spanning New Zealands maritime history from the first Polynesian explorers...
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| x Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum |
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The Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (German Maritime Museum) is a museum in Bremerhaven, Germany. It is part of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. The main museum building was opened on 5 September 1975 by then-president Walter Scheel, though scientific work...
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| x Hong Kong Maritime Museum |
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Hong Kong Maritime Museum is a non-profit educational institution funded by Hong Kong's international shipping community and is located on the ground floor of Murray House in Stanley, Hong Kong.
The museum illustrates how China, Asia and the West...
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| x Aberdeen Maritime Museum |
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Aberdeen Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Aberdeen, Scotland.
The museum is situated on the historic Shiprow in the heart of the city, near the harbour. It makes use of a range of buildings including a former church and Provost Ross' House,...
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| x Erie Maritime Museum |
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Erie Maritime Museum is a maritime museum located on Presque Isle Bay in downtown Erie, Pennsylvania. It was the first new PHMC museum in twenty years when it opened its doors on May 21, 1998. It is the homeport of the US Brig Niagara, a modern...
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| x National Maritime Museum |
The National Maritime Museum in Galle, Sri Lanka is located within the Galle fort. This museum specializes in the fauna and flora of the sea. Artifacts consist of underwater artifacts and scaled-down models of whales and fish.
Other exhibits include...
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| x Israeli National Maritime Museum |
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The National Maritime Museum (Hebrew: המוזיאון הימי הלאומי, HaMuze'on HaYami HaLe'umi) in Haifa, Israel was founded in 1953. It is based on the private collection of its founder and first director, Aryeh Ben- Eli.
In 1972, the museum moved to its...
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| x Scheepvaart Museum |
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The Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum (Netherlands Maritime Museum) is a museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The museum is housed in a former naval storehouse, 's Lands Zeemagazijn or Admiraliteits Magazijn, constructed in 1656. The museum moved to...
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| x Steamship William G. Mather Maritime Museum |
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The Steamship William G. Mather is a retired Great Lakes bulk freighter now restored as a museum ship in Cleveland, Ohio, one of four in the Great Lakes region. She transported cargo such as ore, coal, stone, and grain to ports throughout the Great...
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| x National Maritime Museum of Ireland |
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The National Maritime Museum of Ireland (Irish: Músaem Mhuirí Náisiúnta na hÉireann) opened in 1978 in the former Old Mariners' Church in Haigh Terrace, near the centre of Dún Laoghaire town, southeast of Dublin city.
The church was built in 1837...
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| x Columbia River Maritime Museum |
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The Columbia River Maritime Museum is a museum of maritime history located about ten miles (16 km) from the mouth of the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon, U.S.. It has a national reputation for the quality of its exhibits and the scope of its...
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| x Maritime Museum of Tasmania |
The Maritime Museum of Tasmania is a privately operated maritime museum dedicated to the history of Tasmania's association with the sea, ships, and ship-building, and is located at Carnegie House in Sullivans Cove, Hobart, Tasmania.
The island state...
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| x Los Angeles Maritime Museum |
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The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is a non-profit museum.
The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is located on the main channel in Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro, California, in the former Municipal Ferry Terminal building. The ferry ceased after the Vincent...
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| x Lake Champlain Maritime museum |
The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (LCMM) is non-profit museum located in Ferrisburgh, Vermont, USA. Its mission is to preserve and share the history and archaeology of Lake Champlain. As a maritime museum specializing in archaeology, LCMM studies...
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| x Patriot's Point |
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Patriot's Point Naval & Maritime Museum is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at the mouth of the Cooper River on the Charleston Harbor, across from Charleston, SC.
Patriot's Point is home to four museum ships:
Until 1994, Patriot's Point...
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| x Maritime Industry Museum |
The Maritime Industry Museum is a museum specializing in the history of the United States maritime industry, including commercial shipping, the merchant marine, and the port of New York. It is located inside historic Fort Schuyler on the grounds of...
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| x Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum |
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The Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum is located at 200 Greene Street, Key West, Florida. The museum contains an extensive collection of artifacts from 17th century shipwrecks, such as the Henrietta Marie, Nuestra Senora de Atocha and Santa...
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| x Pakistan Maritime Museum |
Pakistan Maritime Museum is a naval museum and park located in naval estate at Habib Ebrahim Rehmatoola Road, in Karachi, Pakistan.
The main museum building is located inside the park. It comprises six galleries and an auditorium. The museum is...
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| x Ramsgate Maritime Museum |
The Ramsgate Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Ramsgate, Kent, England that describes the maritime history of East Kent. The museum is situated in the Clock House on the quayside of Ramsgate harbour.
There are four permanent galleries covering...
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| x Malta Maritime Museum |
The Malta Maritime Museum is found in Birgu. The aim of this museum is to highlight the maritime heritage of the Maltese Islands. It is a museum run by Heritage Malta.
The Museum is housed in the former British Naval Bakery which was designed by...
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| x North Carolina Maritime Museum |
The North Carolina Maritime Museum is a divisional museum of the North Carolina Museum of History. There are several branches of the Maritime Museum located in Beaufort, Southport and Roanoke Island.
The Beaufort museum focuses on North Carolina's...
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| x Palm Beach Maritime Museum |
The Palm Beach Maritime Museum conists of four facilities - the former U.S. Coast Guard Station, Boathouse and President John F. Kennedy command post and bomb shelter; the marine science field office and dock; an educational center and ferry dock at...
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