1 July 2026 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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The schooner Clotilda (often misspelled Clotilde) was the last known U.S.
slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at
Mobile Bay , in autumn 1859 or on July 9, 1860, with 110 African men, women, and children. The ship was a two-masted
schooner , 86 feet (26 m) long with a
beam of 23 ft (7.0 m).
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1 June 2026 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General , Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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Eendracht is a three-masted
schooner from the
Netherlands , built in 1989 at the
Damen shipyard after a design by W. de Vries Lentsch. Her homeport is
Rotterdam .
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1 May 2026 | Author/Destination: South America / Südamerika | Category: General , Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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🔊 Listen to this Post Cisne Branco is a
tall ship of the
Brazilian Navy , based at
Rio de Janeiro ,
Brazil , used for diplomatic and public relations operations worldwide. Her name means “white swan.” A
full-rigged ship, she was built in
Amsterdam ,
Netherlands by
Damen Shipyard . Her
keel was
laid on 9 November 1998, and she was christened and
launched on 4 August 1999, delivered to the Brazilian Navy on 4 February 2000. The vessel was
commissioned as a Brazilian naval vessel on 9 March 2000. Its
sister ship is
Stad Amsterdam .
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1 January 2026 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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at quai Richard Waddington, Rouen, France © Chabe01/cc-by-sa-4.0
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Bima Suci (945) is a
barque and
training ship of the
Indonesian Navy .
Bima Suci was
launched on 18 September 2017 by Freire Shipyard,
Vigo ,
Spain . The vessel was
commissioned in 2017.
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1 November 2025 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships , Cruise Ships , Yacht of the Month
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The Golden Horizon at Brodosplit Shipyard in Split © Ballota/cc-by-sa-4.0
🔊 Listen to this Post SV Golden Horizon is a steel-
hulled five-
masted barque rigged tall ship which is intended to serve as a
cruise ship , but has almost never seen active service. Originally named
Flying Clipper , the luxury vessel was designed by
Polish naval architect Zygmunt Chore? , for Star Clippers Ltd. of Sweden, and built by the
Brodosplit Shipyard in
Split, Croatia . She is the largest sailing ship ever launched. Her design was based on
France II , a famous French five-mast cargo
windjammer built in 1911.
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1 October 2025 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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passing Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA © Cruadin/cc-by-2.5
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Tarangini is a
three-masted barque , commissioned in 1997 as a
sail training ship for the
Indian Navy . She is
square rigged on the fore and main masts and
fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzen mast. She was constructed in
Goa to a design by the British
naval architect Colin Mudie , and launched on 1 December 1995. In 2003–04, she became the first
Indian naval ship to
circumnavigate the globe .
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1 September 2025 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: General , Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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Capitán Miranda (ROU 20) is a three-masted
staysail schooner of the
Uruguayan Navy . Originally acquired by the Uruguayan Navy as a
survey ship in 1930, the ship remained in service until 1976 in this role. Destined for the
shipbreakers , the vessel was repurposed as a
training ship in 1978.
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1 August 2025 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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Hermione fire her canons in Bordeaux © Dark Attsios/cc-by-sa-4.0
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Hermione is a 32-gun
Concorde -class frigate fitted for
12-pounder guns , completed in Rochefort by the Asselin organisation in 2014. It is a
reproduction of the 1779
Hermione , which achieved fame by ferrying General
La Fayette to the United States in 1780 to allow him to rejoin the American side in the
American Revolutionary War .
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1 June 2025 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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ARM
Cuauhtémoc is a
sail training vessel of the
Mexican Navy , launched in 1982.
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