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Tall ship is an informal collective term for some kinds of sailing ships. Contrary to other sailing ship classification terms, tall ship does not describe a particular kind of sailing ship identified by a sail plan — both barques and brigantines, for instance, are tall ships.

A tall ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques.

Traditional rigged vessels differ from modern sailing vessels with gaff rigs, topmasts and topsails. Due to the additional crew and rigging required to carry topmasts and gaff rigs and the ability to construct taller, hollow masts of aluminum and steel, separate topmasts are generally cost prohibitive on modern designs.

The term has come into widespread use even amongst landlubbers in the mid-20th century with the advent of The Tall Ships' Races.

While Sail Training International (STI) has extended the definition of tall ship for the purpose of its races to embrace any sailing vessel with more than 30 ft. (9.14 m) waterline length and on which at least half the people on board are aged 15 to 25, this definition can include many modern sailing yachts, so for the purposes of this article, tall ship will refer to those vessels rated as class "B" or above (Fore and aft rigged vessels between 100 to 160 feet in length, and all square rigged vessels).

The well-known poem "Sea Fever" by the English Poet Laureate John Masefield contains the line "And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by", inspired by the poet's experience of serving in sailing ships during his youth (see [1].)

Contents 1 Modern tall ships 2 Gallery 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

(listed alphabetically by vessel name)

A.J. Meerwald Adventuress Akogare Alabama Albanus Alexander von Humboldt Alma America American Eagle American Pride American Rover Amerigo Vespucci Amistad Angele Aline Angelique Anna Kristina Antigua Aphrodite Appledore IV Argus Kri Arung Samudera Asgard II TS Astrid Astrid Finne Atlantica Atlantis Balclutha Baltic Beauty Batavia (ship) Bel Espoir II Belem FS Belle-Poule Bill of Rights Black Jack Black Pearl Bluenose II Boa Esperanza HMS Bounty Bounty of Kristor Bowdoin Brilliant (ship)ǀBrilliant Bryza H Californian Capitan Miranda Christian Radich Cisne Branco Clearwater Concordia Corwith Cramer Creoula Cuauhtémoc Cutty Sark

Danmark Dar Młodzieży Dar Pomorza Den Store Bjorn Denis Sullivan KRI Dewaruci Dunbrody USCGC Eagle Earl of Pembroke Eendracht II East Indiaman Götheborg Elissa HM Bark Endeavour Esmeralda Étoile Europa Fragata Libertad Fryderyk Chopin Gazela Georg Stage Glenlee (Glasgow) ARC Gloria Gorch Fock Gorch Fock II Grand Turk Hawaiian Chieftain Irving and Exy Johnson ORP Iskra ORP Iskra II Jeanie Johnston Jolie Brise Juan Sebastián Elcano Kaisei Kaliakra Kalmar Nyckel Kaskelot KRI Dewaruci Kruzenshtern (ship) Lady Maryland Lady Nelson Lady Washington Leeuwin II (tall ship) Lene Marie Lewis R. French Lord Nelson Lynx (tall ship) Manitou Mir Mircea Mystic Whaler Moosk Nadezhda US Brig Niagara NRP Sagres RV Oceania One and All

Pacific Grace Pacific Swift Pallada Pamir S.T.V. Pathfinder T.S. Playfair Passat Pogoria Polly Woodside Pommern Peking Phoenix Picton Castle Pilgrim Pride of Baltimore II Prince William Privateer Lynx Robert C. Seamans Royal Clipper TS Royalist Sea Cloud Sedov Shabab Shenandoah Sloop Providence Soren Larsen Solway Lass Spirit of Dana Point Spirit of New Zealand Stad Amsterdam Statsraad Lehmkuhl Star Clipper Star Flyer STS Mir Star of India Stavros S Niarchos HMS Sultana "HMS" Surprise (ex-Rose) Swan fan Makkum Swift of Ipswich INS Tarangini Tenacious Tocorimé Pamatojari Tole Mour Tradewind HMS Trincomalee STS Young Endeavour HMS Victory Windy Windy II Zodiac

Kaskelot at the 2004 Bristol Harbour festival in England.	Kajama, a tourist tallship sailing in Toronto Harbour, Lake Ontario	The defining feature of square rigged tall ships - going aloft to set and stow sails.	The Earl of Pembroke
Over 36 tall ships participated in the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in Portsmouth, part of the fleet of 167 naval, merchant and tall ships from 36 countries	The masts and yards of a brig, a typical tall ship.

• American Sail Training Association
• Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race
• Sail training
• Tall Ships Challenge
• Jubilee Sailing Trust

• American Sail Training Association; Sail Tall Ships! (American Sail Training Association; 16th edition, 2005 ISBN 0-9636483-9-X)
• Thad Koza; Tall Ships: A Fleet for the 21st Century (Tide-Mark Press; 3rd edition, 2002; ISBN 1-55949-739-4)

• Tall Ships' Regatta 2008
• American Sail Training Association
• Tall Ships Today!
• ASTA race classes info
• Jubilee Sailing Trust
• Sail Training International
• Blue Cruise
• Tall ship pictures published on USENET stored with a search function.
• Tall-ship pictures for personal/commercial use.
• Maritime Heritage Network, an online directory of maritime history resources in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Transportation Photographs An ongoing digital collection of photographs depicting various modes of transportation in the Pacific Northwest region and Western United States during the first half of the 20th century.

Types of sailing vessels and rigs

Barque | Barquentine | Bermuda rig | Bilander | Brig | Brigantine | Caravel | Carrack | Catamaran | Catboat | Clipper | Dutch Clipper | Cog | Corvette | Cutter | Dhow | Fifie | Fluyt | Fore & Aft Rig | Frigate | Full Rigged Ship | Gaff Rig | Galiot | Galleon | Gunter Rig | Hermaphrodite Brig | Jackass-barque | Junk | Ketch | Longship | Mersey Flat | Multihull | Nao | Norfolk Wherry | Pink | Pocket Cruiser | Polacca | Pram | Proa | Sailing hydrofoil | Schooner | Ship of the Line | Sloop | Smack | Snow | Square Rig | Tall Ship | Thames Sailing Barge | Trimaran | Vinta | Wherry | Windjammer | Windsurfer | Xebec | Yacht | Yawl