Tall Ships at Sail250 Maryland

Sparred Length – 295ft
Draft – 17ft
Beam – 39ft
Rig Height – 147ft 4in

The United States Coast Guard Cutter EAGLE was built at the Blohm & Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany originally named HORST WESSEL. Commissioned in 1936, she was taken as a war reparation after World War II, renamed, and commissioned as the training vessel of the United States Coast Guard Academy. Today, she trains cadets from the Academy and candidates from the USCG Officer Candidate School while representing the United States and the U.S. Coast Guard during goodwill voyages throughout the world.

Sparred Length – 340.4ft
Draft – 21.7ft
Beam – 46.9ft

ARA Libertad (Q-2) is a steel-hulled, full-rigged, class "A" sailing ship that serves as a school vessel in the Argentine Navy. One of the largest and fastest tall ships in the world, holder of several speed records, she was designed and built in the 1950s by the Río Santiago Shipyard, Ensenada, Argentina. Her maiden voyage was in 1961, and she continues to be a training ship with yearly instruction trips for the graduating naval cadets as well as a traveling goodwill ambassador, having covered more than 800,000 nautical miles (1,500,000 km) across all seas, visited about 500 ports in more than 60 countries, and trained more than 11,000 navy graduates.

Sparred Length – 371ft
Draft – 23ft
Beam – 43ft
Rig Height – 159ft

Esmeralda is a steel-hulled, four-masted, barquentine. Since her commissioning, Esmeralda has been a training ship for the Chilean Navy. She has visited more than 300 ports worldwide, acting as a floating embassy for Chile. She participated in Operation Sail at New York in 1964, 1976 and 1986, and the Osaka World Sail in 1983. She also participated in International Regattas of Sail in 1964, 1976, 1982 and 1990 winning the Cutty Sark Trophy in the last two participations. In 2016, Esmeralda visited New Zealand to participate in the 75th Anniversary Celebrations of the foundation of the Royal New Zealand Navy.

Sparred Length – 123ft
Draft – 12ft 2in
Beam – 24ft 3in

Belle Poule is a French Navy Schooner in service as a training vessel, and the fourth ship of that name in the French Navy. She was built in 1932 as a replica of a cod fishing vessel used off Iceland, as a training ship of the students of the École Navale. During the Second World War, Belle Poule sailed to the United Kingdom after the fall of France and was used by the Free French Naval Forces, returning to Brest in 1945. The schooner as well as her sister ship Étoile are still used by the École Navale as training ships in European waters.

Length – 436ft 4in
Draft – 23ft 11in
Beam – 52ft 10in

HMS Portland is a Type 23 frigate of the British Royal Navy. She is the eighth ship to bear the name, is the fifteenth and penultimate ship of the 'Duke' class of frigates and is named for the currently extinct title of the Dukedom of Portland, and more particularly for the third Duke, who was Prime Minister. The ship was accepted into service by the Royal Navy on 15 December 2000 and was commissioned on 3 May the following year. During sea trials Portland attained a top speed of 30.8 knots (57.0 km/h), the fastest speed attained by any Type 23 frigate at that time.

Sparred Length – 177ft
Draft – 15ft
Beam – 28ft
Rig Height – 113ft

INS SUDARSHINI is a sail training ship built by Goa Shipyard Ltd for the Indian Navy. “Sudarshini” means “beautiful lady Sundari” after the younger half-sister of Buddha.Sudarshini is a three-masted barque. It is 54 metres long and has 20 sails, 7.5 km of rope and 1.5 km of steel wire rope. Her sails have a total area of approximately 1,035 square metres (11,140 sq ft). Capable of operations under sail or power, and with a complement of 5 officers, 31 sailors with 30 cadets embarked for training, she can remain at sea for at least 20 days at a time.

Sudarshini‘s steel hull was laid on 25 January 2011 on the West Coast of India at the port town of Vasco da Gama, Goa. It was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 27 January 2012 by Vice Admiral K.N. Sushil, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command. Built for worldwide operations, it will be used as a basic seamanship and character building platform.

Sparred Length – 331ft
Draft – 23ft
Beam – 51ft
Rig Height – 177ft

AMERIGO VESPUCCI is the tall ship of the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Her home port is La Spezia, Italy, and she is in use as a training ship. The vessel is a full-rigged, three-masted steel hull 82.4 m (270 ft) long, with an overall length of 101 m (331 ft) including the bowsprit and a maximum width of 15.5 m (51 ft). She has a draught of about 7 m (23 ft) and a displacement at full load of 4146 tons. Under auxiliary diesel-electric propulsion the Amerigo Vespucci can reach 10 knots (19 km/h) and has a range of 5450nm at 6.5 knots.

Sparred Length – 144ft
Draft – 13ft
Beam – 23ft
Rig Height – 105ft

The KLD TUNAS SAMUDERA is the Royal Malaysian Navy’s sail training vessel. It is a brigantine – having two masts, with square sails on the foremast and fore and aft sails on the mainmast. Designed by Colin Mudie of Royal Designer for Industry, the brigantine was built by Brooke Yachts in Lowestoft, England and launched in August 1989. Commissioned in October of that year, the vessel serves as a training platform for the Royal Malaysian Navy and as a floating ambassador during port visits. In 2007-2008, the TUNAS SAMUDERA completed a circumnavigation of the world.

Sparred Length – 378ft 11in
Draft – 21ft 4in
Beam – 44ft 3in
Rig Height – 175ft 6in

BAP Unión (BEV-161) is the training ship of the Peruvian Navy built in 2012–2015 by Shipyard Marine Industrial Services of Peru. It is a four-masted, steel-hulled, class "A" barque. It has a total length (including bowsprit) of 115.50 m (378 ft 11 in); a beam of 13.50 m (44 ft 3 in); a draft of 6.50 m (21 ft 4 in); a mast height of 53.50 m (175 ft 6 in); a displacement of 3,200 tons; a speed of 12 kts (22 km/h) and a crew of 250 officers and trainees. The ship's name honors a Peruvian corvette that took part in the first stage of the 1879–1883 War of the Pacific as part of a naval squadron under the command of Miguel Grau, a hero of the Peruvian Navy. Like other similar ships, Unión has been conceived not only for training purposes, but also to be a sailing ambassador for its home country. Due to its features and dimensions, it has been considered (as of the date it was commissioned) the largest sail vessel in Latin America.

Sparred Length – 292ft
Draft – 17ft
Beam – 39ft
Rig Height – 138ft

NRP SAGRES has been the school ship of the Portuguese Navy since 1961. As the third ship with this name in the Portuguese Navy, she is sometimes referred to as Sagres III. The ship is a steel-built, three masted barque, with square sails on the fore and main masts and gaff rigging on the mizzen mast. Her main mast rises 42 m (138 ft) above the deck. She carries 22 sails totaling about 2,000 m² (22,000 sq ft) and can reach a top speed of 17 kn (31 km/h; 20 mph) under sail. She has a sparred length of 89 m (292 ft), a width of 12 m (39 ft), a draught of 5.2 m (17 ft), and a displacement at full load of 1,755 long tons (1,966 short tons).

Sparred Length – 292ft
Draft – 17ft
Beam – 39ft
Rig Height – 138ft

NMS MIRCEA was built at the Blohm and Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany for the Romanian Navy in 1938. During World War II, the vessel was captured by the USSR and kept as a war reparation, before being returned to Romania in 1946. MIRCEA is a barque – three masts, with square sails on the fore and main masts and fore and aft sails on the mizzen (aft most) mast. The barque sails as the official vessel of the Romanian Navy and has participated in numerous sail training festivals and races throughout the world, including the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial in New York harbor and more recent festivals across Europe. The MIRCEA is the sister ship of the USCG barque EAGLE, the SAGRES from Portugal, and the GORCH FOCK from Germany.