Find out about tall ships and sail training ships seen in London on the Thames
THE TALL ship Lord Nelson returned today after a two year voyage around the world which has seen it sail over fifty thousands nautical miles. The 55-metre ship was the first to circle the world with disabled crew members and arrived on the Thames today accompanied by TS Tenacious, both of which are owned by the Jubilee Sailing Trust charity. …
Tenacious on an earlier visit to London THE Tall ships Lord Nelson and Tenacious will sail up the Thames together on Friday morning (19th). It will be a rare joint appearance in the capital by the duo of fully accessible vessels, owned by Southampton-based charity the Jubilee Sailing Trust. For the Lord Nelson, the arrival in London marks the completion …
THE ROYAL Greenwich Tall Ships Festival drew to a close last week with the stunning sight of some fifty ships sailing down the Thames. Thousands of spectators lined the sides of the river as the Parade of Sail took shape near Limehouse and then was led down the Thames by Polish sail training ship Dar Mlodziezy. The brigs, the barques, …
THE STUNNING Polish sail training ship DAR MLODZIEZY arrived in the capital on Wednesday evening shortly before sunset. The 109-metre three-masted vessel is in London for the Falmouth to Greenwich Tall Ships Regatta. The tall ship is the largest of the approximately fifty vessels taking part in the regatta – the biggest such gathering of Tall Ships on the Thames …
THE BEAUTIFUL three-masted clipper STAD AMSTERDAM arrived in London earlier this week. Launched in 2001, she won the Cutty Sark Tall Ships’ Race a year later and has become a regular visitor to London. Her visit coincides with, but is not related to, the Tall Ships Festival taking place in London this weekend. Stad Amsterdam arrived at West India Docks …
The three-masted tall ship TENACIOUS arrived in the capital this afternoon. The blue bridge on the Isle of Dog’s Manchester Road lifted at about 4pm so that the 54-metre long vessel could enter West India Dock. SV TENACIOUS was commissioned in 2000 and is operated by the UK-based Jubilee Sailing Trust charity. Crewed by disabled and able-bodied sailors, the barque …
THE BEAUTIFUL German tall ship ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT II arrived in London this afternoon for a two day visit. The 65-metre barque with distinctive green hull looked spectacular as she passed London’s landmarks on her inbound journey to the Upper Pool. It’s the first visit to London for the three-masted vessel which was launched in 2011 and is owned by …
ROYAL Greenwich this week held an event to mark just 150 days to go until the 2014 Falmouth to Greenwich Tall Ships Regatta. The event, billed as one of the biggest in London since the Olympics, will see 50 tall ships on the Thames. The vessels will be moored up at four points on the river; at Woolwich, at Greenwich, …
THREE-masted tall ship KASKELOT arrived in London at the weekend. The 47-metre long barque made the journey from Bristol and reached West India Dock late on Saturday morning. She was built in the late 1940s and started her career as a Baltic trader, helping to get supplies to Greenland. In recent decades she has appeared in many film and television …
