The museum ship USS Constitution

1 February 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Tall ships, Museums, Exhibitions, Yacht of the Month Reading Time:  9 minutes

USS Constitution sails into Boston Harbor during an underway Battle of Midway commemoration © U.S. Navy - Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kathryn E. Macdonald

USS Constitution sails into Boston Harbor during an underway Battle of Midway commemoration
© U.S. Navy – Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kathryn E. Macdonald

USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world’s oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat. Launched in 1797, Constitution was one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. Joshua Humphreys designed the frigates to be the young Navy’s capital ships, and so Constitution and her sisters were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard frigates of the period. Built in Boston, Massachusetts, at Edmund Hartt‘s shipyard, her first duties with the newly formed United States Navy were to provide protection for American merchant shipping during the Quasi-War with France and to defeat the Barbary pirates in the First Barbary War.   read more…

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The Rickmer Rickmers

1 July 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Tall ships, Hamburg, Museums, Exhibitions, Yacht of the Month Reading Time:  6 minutes

Figurehead of Rickmer Rickmers © Tvabutzku1234

Figurehead of Rickmer Rickmers © Tvabutzku1234

Rickmer Rickmers is a sailing ship (three masted bark) permanently moored as a museum ship in Hamburg, near the Cap San Diego. Rickmer Clasen Rickmers, (1807–1886) was a Bremerhaven shipbuilder and Willi Rickmer Rickmers, (1873–1965) led a Soviet-German expedition to the Pamirs in 1928.   read more…

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The steel-hulled four-masted barque Beijing

18 May 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Tall ships, Hamburg, Museums, Exhibitions, New York City Reading Time:  9 minutes

Southern Manhattan with Peking in front and Wavertree in the background, seen from Staten Island ferry © Someone35

Southern Manhattan with Peking in front and Wavertree in the background, seen from Staten Island ferry © Someone35

The Peking is a steel-hulled four-masted barque – the sister ship to the Passat and Padua (today Kruzenshtern). A so-called Flying P-Liner of the German company F. Laeisz, it was one of the last generation of windjammers used in the nitrate trade and wheat trade around the often treacherous Cape Horn.   read more…

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