Ship-Pics: Recent Photos



SEPTEMBER 21, 2004 Click the small photos below for a better view. Please close the pop-up window after viewing before opening another.		TALLSHIPS 2004 The following photographs were taken during the tallships event, Halifax, late July / early August 2004. This event celebrated the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Nova Scotia and was part of the World Acadian Congress held in Nova Scotia this year. Further Halifax shipping pages: [Recent Sightings (1)] [Recent Sightings (2)] [Recent Sightings (3)] [Halifax Shipping (General)] [Early Container Ships] [Tallships 2004] [2003 Cruise Season] [2004 Cruise Season] [Blue Marlin - Big Lift] [What Became of Them?] [Visiting Warships] Please feel free to send any comments, information or additional photos concerning the featured ships to Mike at ships_ns@yahoo.ca ****************

Name / Home port: EUROPA The Hague, Netherlands.

Comments: Steel-hulled, three-masted Barque with a sparred length of 185 ft. EUROPA is a fairly frequent visitor to the port and was one of the few larger vessels to sail by in full rig on a hot and breezy day.

Year built / Builder: 1911.

Details: LOA - 150 ft; beam - 24 ft; rig height - 109 ft; sail area - 12,500 square ft (24,500 sqare ft with studding sails).

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Name / Home port: GAZELA PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia, PENN

Comments: Wood hull, three-masted Barquentine with a sparred length of 178 ft.

Year built / Builder: 1883. Underwent a major re-build in 1901.

Details: LOA - 150 ft; beam - 27' 9"; rig height - 100 ft.

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Name / Home port: CUAHATEMOC, Acapulco, Mexico

Comments: Steel-hulled, three-masted Barquentine. She is the Mexican Navy's sail training ship.

Year built / Builder: 1984, Spain

Details: LOA - 270 ft; beam - 39' 4".

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Name / Home port: MIRCEA, Constanza, Romania.

Comments: Making a fine sight with yards manned, the Romanian Navy sail training, steel-hulled, three-masted Barque with a sparred length of 269 ft.

Year built / Builder: 1939, Blohm & Voss, Hamburg.

Details: 1,604 tons displacement; LOA - 239 ' 5"; beam - 39' 3"; sail area - 18, 830 square ft; MAN 6 cyl auxiliary motor (500 bhp); 9.5 knots. Crew - 83 plus 140 midshipmen for training.

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Name / Owner: EAGLE, United States Coast Guard training ship, New London, CONN.

Comments: Steel-hulled, three-masted Barque with a sparred length of 295 ft.

Year built / Builder: Launched 1936, Blohm & Voss, Hamburg.

Details: Originally the HORST WESSEL, she was taken by the US as part of reparations at the end of WWII arriving at her now home port in 1946. She is a frequent visitor to Halifax. 1,816 displacement tons at full load; 231 ft at waterline x 39' 1" beam; sail area - 21,350 square feet; MAN auxiliary diesel (728 bhp); 10.5 knots. Complement - 280 crew and trainees.

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Name / Home port: TENACIOUS, Southampton, UK.

Comments: The UK was represented by the Jubilee Sailing Trust's wood-hulled, three-masted Barque TENACIOUS.

Year built / Builder: 1996 - 2000 at the Jubilee Trust's own yard to the design of Tony Castro. She is the largest wooden tall ship of her kind in the world.

Details: Sparred length - 213' 3"; rig height - 129' 9". She made her maiden voyage 1 September, 2000.

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Name / Home port: PICTON CASTLE, Flag: Cook Islands; Home port: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Comments: Steel-hulled, three-masted, 300 ton Barque with a sparred length of 176 ft.

Year built / Builder: 1928 - converted from a trawler?

Details: LOA - 148 ft; rig height: 100 ft.

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Name / Home port: POGORIA, Gdynia, Poland; entered by the Polish Sail training Association.

Comments: Steel-hulled, three-masted Barque with a sparred length of 154 ft. Her near sister, ISKRA also took part in the event.

Year built / Builder: 1980, Gdansk, from the iron shackle FRATERNITY. Designed by Zygmunt Choren.

Details: LOA - 135 ft.

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Name / Home port: PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II Baltimore, Maryland.

Comments: Wood-hulled, two-masted Square Topsail Schooner with a sparred length of 170 ft. Just as she was sailing by, her deafening "broadside" led to an involuntary twitch of the camera shutter!

Year built / Builder: 1988 as a replica privateer to the design of Thomas C. Gillmer.

Details: LOA - 108 ft; beam - 26 ft; rig height - 107 ft; sail area - 10,442 square feet.

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