Tall Ships

ARA LIBERTAD, a steel-hulled, full-rigged ship, 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.

CISNE BRANCO is a full-rigged ship of the Brazilian Navy based at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to support worldwide diplomatic efforts. Her name means "White Swan."

ESMERALDA is a steel-hulled four-masted barquentine tall ship of the Chilean Navy. Her sister ship is the training ship for the Spanish Navy.

GLORIA, a three-masted barque, is a training ship and the official flagship of the Colombian Navy.

GUAYAS is a three-masted barque of the Ecuadorian Navy with a steel hull and displays 15,200 sq.ft. of sail.

THE GORCH FOCK is a tall ship of the German Navy, built in 1958 as a replacement for the original Gorch Fock built in 1933 which was taken as war reparations by the Soviet Union after World War II, renamed Tovarishch, and returned to Germany in 2003.

Commissioned in 2011, INS SUDARSHINI, a 177-foot three-masted barque, trains Indian Navy cadets in traditional seamanship. She carries 20 sails and over 7 kilometers of rope, and is a sister ship to INS Tarangini.

KRI BIMA SUCI is Indonesia’s largest sail training ship. This striking 364-foot three-masted barque was launched in 2017 and serves as a floating ambassador for the Indonesian Navy. With over 36,000 square feet of sail, she carries more than 200 cadets and crew to ports around the world.

AMERIGO VESPUCCI is a full-rigged three-masted steel hull of the Italian Navy and named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Her home port is La Spezia, Italy

ARM CUAUHTEMOC is the sail training vessel of the Mexican Navy. She is a sailing ambassador for Mexico and a frequent visitor to world ports.

The Royal Netherlands Navy’s HNLMS URANIA is a sleek 89-foot ketch serving as a modern sail training vessel for officer cadets. Commissioned in 2004, she sails from her home port of Den Helder with a small crew and 11 trainees.

Built in 1918, OOSTERSCHELDE is a 164-foot three-masted topsail schooner and is the largest restored Dutch sailing ship. Once a cargo vessel, she now sails worldwide on training voyages.

UNION is the first sail training ship of the Peruvian Navy. It acts as a training vessel for officers and naval cadets and as a sailing ambassador, promoting Peru in its various voyages around the world.

SAGRES is a school-ship of the Portuguese Navy used to complement the training of future naval officers. She is a steel-built three-masted barque, with square sails on the fore and main masts and gaff rigging on the mizzen mast.

MIRCEA, an elegant 269-foot barque, was built in 1938 for the Romanian Navy and continues to train cadets in seamanship and navigation. With 23 sails and a proud history that includes OPSAIL ’76, she is a familiar sight at tall ship events worldwide.

JUAN SEBASTIAN de ELCANO, the training ship of the Spanish navy, is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled barquentine. She is the third-largest tall ship in the world.

Known as “America’s Tall Ship,” the USCGC EAGLE is a 295-foot three-masted barque that has trained Coast Guard cadets since 1946. Originally built in Germany in 1936, she carries 22,000 square feet of sail and remains the only active square-rigger in U.S. government service.

CAPITAN MIRANDA is a three-masted staysail schooner of the Uruguayan Navy. Destined for the shipbreakers, the vessel was repurposed as a training ship in 1978.