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Operation Sail
Operation Sail refers to a series of sailing events held to celebrate special occasions and features sailing vessels from around the world. Each event is coordinated by Operation Sail, Inc., a non-profit organization established in 1961 by U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and must be approved by the United States Congress. Often referred to as OpSail or Op Sail, the event has the goals of promoting good will and cooperation between countries while providing sail training and celebrating maritime history. It is also sometimes erroneously referred to as "Tall Ships". While the tall ships form the centerpiece of the event, smaller sailing vessels also participate. Op Sail events, when scheduled, are run concurrently with the annual International Naval Review, which features present-day warships from various navies. Six Op Sail events have been held to date, in 1964, 1976, 1986, 1992, 2000 and 2012. The event culminates in the Parade of Ships on the Hudson River and in New York Harbor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flickr - Official U
Flickr ( ) is an image hosting service, image and Online video platform, video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was previously a common way for amateur and professional photographers to host high-resolution photos. It has changed ownership several times and has been owned by SmugMug since April 20, 2018. Flickr had a total of 112 million registered members and more than 3.5 million new images uploaded daily. On August 5, 2011, the site reported that it was hosting more than 6 billion images. In 2024, it was reported as having shared 10 billion photos and accepting 25 million per day. Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without the need to register an account, but an account must be made to upload content to the site. Registering an account also allows users to create a profile page containing photos and videos that the user has uploaded and also grants the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Randolph (CV-15)
USS ''Randolph'' (CV/CVA/CVS-15) was one of 24 s built during and following World War II for the United States Navy. The second US Navy ship to bear the name, she was named for Founding Father Peyton Randolph, president of the First Continental Congress. ''Randolph'' was commissioned in October 1944, and served in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning three battle stars. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). In her second career she operated exclusively in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Caribbean. In the early 1960s she served as the recovery ship for two Project Mercury space missions, including John Glenn's historic first orbital flight. She was decommissioned in 1969 and sold for scrap in 1975. Construction and commissioning ''Randolph'' was one of the "long-hull" ships. She was laid down on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Radich
''Christian Radich'' is a Norwegian full-rigged ship, named after a Norwegian shipowner. The vessel was built at Framnæs shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway, and was delivered on 17 June 1937. The owner was The Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation, which was established by a grant from an officer of that name. Description ''Christian Radich'' is a full-rigged, three-masted, steel hulled ship, long, with an overall length of , including the bowsprit and a beam of . It has a draught of approximately , and a displacement at full load of . Her top speed under sail is , and under power. The vessel is maintained by a crew of 18, and can accommodate 88 passengers. The class society of the vessel is Det Norske Veritas, DNV, and is built to +1A1, E0. History The tall ship A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigging, rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. "Tall ship" can also be defined more specific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Training Ship Corsaro II
''Corsaro II'' is a yawl, active as a sail training vessel for the Italian Navy Characteristics Designed by Sparkman & Stephens Designs New York City (United States), project 1505, ''Corsano II'' for the RORC 1st class, is a Bermudan-rig yawl, sister of ''Stella Polare'', commissioned by Italian Navy to be used as a training ship for the cadets at the Italian Naval Academy in Livorno, Italy. She is constructed of wood; iroko keelson, acacia frames and double planked of Philippine mahogany. The ship's fasteners are silicon bronze, spars are of sitka spruce. Original engine Mercedes-Benz OM/321 (96 HP) was then replaced by a FIAT AIFO engine. Each year she embarks on a training cruise which often includes calls to various classic sailing rallies and regattas. History ''Corsaro II'' can accommodate 16 persons. First Commander of the ship was Agostino Straulino, who won the 1952 Olympic Games in the class Star. In 1961 ''Corsaro II'' was the only naval ship to join in the Los A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRI Dewaruci
KRI ''Dewaruci'' (sometimes spelled ''Dewa Ruci'' or ''Dewarutji'') is a Class A tall ship and the only barquentine owned and operated by the Indonesian Navy. She is used as a sail training vessel for naval cadets and is the largest tall ship in the Indonesian fleet. ''Dewaruci'' also serves as a goodwill ambassador for Indonesia to the rest of the world. Built in Germany by H. C. Stülcken Sohn at Steinwerder, Hamburg. Construction of ''Dewaruci'' began in 1932, but was suspended due to the outbreak of World War II, which caused heavy damage to the shipyard where she was being constructed. She was launched on 24 January 1953 and completed on 9 July that year. Since then, she has been based at Surabaya on the Java Sea. Her name and figurehead represent and display the mythological Javanese ''wayang'' god of truth and courage. The vessel was also used in the making of Anna and the King movie, starring Jodie Foster. ''Dewaruci'' also participates in tall ship races and events aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorch Fock (1958)
''Gorch Fock'' is a tall ship of the German Navy, launched in 1958 as a replacement for the original launched in 1933 which was taken as war reparations by the Soviet Union after World War II, renamed ''Tovarishch'', and returned to Germany in 2003. Both ships are named in honour of the German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pseudonym "Gorch Fock" and died in the battle of Jutland/Skagerrak in 1916. The modern-day ''Gorch Fock'' was launched in 1958 as a delayed sister ship to five ships built in the 1930s, and has since then undertaken 146 cruises (as of October 2006), including one tour around the world in 1988. She is sometimes referred to (unofficially) as ''Gorch Fock II'' to distinguish her from her older sister ship. ''Gorch Fock'' is assigned to the Naval Academy at Flensburg- Mürwik. The ship Germany lost all of its school ships as war reparations after World War II to the Allies, so the West German decided in 1957 to have a new training vessel built foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Cloud
''Sea Cloud'' is a sailing cruise ship owned by Sea Cloud Cruises of Hamburg, Germany. Launched as a private yacht as ''Hussar V'' for Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1931, she later served as a weather ship for the United States Coast Guard and United States Navy during World War II, when she became the U.S. military's first racially integrated warship since the American Civil War. After the war, ''Sea Cloud'' was returned to private ownership, serving as a yacht for numerous people, including as presidential yacht of the Dominican Republic. Since 1979, ''Sea Cloud'' has been used as a cruise ship. Private yacht ''Hussar V'' ''Sea Cloud'' was built in Kiel, Germany, as a barque for Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband Edward F. Hutton of Wall Street's E. F. Hutton & Co. The yacht interiors and features were personally designed by Post, who took a course in marine engineering, and had full size interior mocks-ups done in a New York warehouse. She was launched in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danmark (ship, 1932)
''Danmark'' is a full-rigged ship owned by the Danish Maritime Authority and based at the in Frederikshavn, Denmark. Description ''Danmark'' is in overall length with a beam of and a depth of , with a gross tonnage of 790 tons. She was designed for a crew complement of 120 but in a 1959 refit this was reduced to 80. Although she is equipped with a 486-hp diesel engine capable of in other respects she retains many primitive features: for example, the steering gear lacks any mechanical assistance, and the stock anchors are raised by a capstan rather than a powered windlass. The permanent crew has berths, but the trainees sleep in hammocks. History ''Danmark'' succeeded ''København'', a five-masted barque which was lost mysteriously at sea at the end of 1928, as Denmark's principal training ship. Launched in 1932 at the Nakskov Shipyard in Lolland and fitted out the following year, she was built to train officers of the Danish merchant marine. In 1939 she visited the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esmeralda (BE-43)
''Esmeralda'' is a steel-hulled four-masted barquentine of the Chilean Navy. Construction The ship is the sixth to carry the name ''Esmeralda''. The first was the frigate '' Esmeralda'' captured from the Spanish at Callao, Peru, by Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane of the Chilean Navy, in a bold incursion on the night of 5 November 1820. The second was the corvette '' Esmeralda'' of the Chilean Navy, which, set against superior forces, fought until sunk with colors flying on 21 May 1879 at the Battle of Iquique. These events are considered significant milestones by the Chilean navy. Construction began in Cádiz, Spain, in 1946. She was intended to become Spain's national training ship. During her construction in 1947 the yard in which she was being built suffered catastrophic explosions, which damaged the ship and placed the yard on the brink of bankruptcy. Work on the ship was temporarily halted. In 1950 Chile and Spain entered into negotiations in which Spain offered to repay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARA Libertad (Q-2)
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 across all seas, visited about 500 ports in more than 60 countries, and trained more than 11,000 navy graduates. Specifications The ninth Argentine Navy vessel to bear the name ''Libertad'', she has a total length (including bowsprit) of 103.75 m; a beam of 14.31 m; a draft of 6.60 m; and a displacement of 3,765 tonnes: these figures place ARA ''Libertad'' as the world's sixth longest tall ship and the third heaviest in displacement. Her complement is 357, including 24 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1 Hanover Square
One Hanover (formerly known as India House, Hanover Bank Building, and New York Cotton Exchange Building) is a commercial building at 1 Hanover Square, on the southwestern edge of the square, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It was the site of the United States' first cotton futures exchange, the New York Cotton Exchange. , One Hanover is owned by SomeraRoad Inc., which uses the building as its headquarters. One Hanover is composed of four originally separate structures. The main structure is a three-story brownstone building designed in the Italian Renaissance style and completed in 1854. The brownstone contains the building's main entrance facing Hanover Square. Adjoining the brownstone are three brick structures at 60–64 Stone Street, which date to 1836 and were built as commercial stores. The brick buildings are four stories tall but are the same height as the brownstone. Inside are maritime-themed spaces that are used by Harry's Bar, Ulys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland America Line
Holland America Line N.V. (HAL) is an American cruise line operating as a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Founded in 1873 in Rotterdam, Netherlands as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company (NASM), the company operated regular transatlantic passenger and cargo services between Rotterdam and North America until 1971. As a dedicated cruise line, the company expanded through multiple acquisitions including Westours in 1971, Windstar Cruises in 1988, and Home Lines in 1988. In 1989, the company was acquired by Carnival Corporation. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the line's cruise ships carry the names of former transatlantic ocean liners operated by the company. Its current flagship, ''Rotterdam'' (2020), is the seventh ship to bear such a name. As a major operator of cruises and overland tours in Alaska, the company owns multiple hotels and two railroads throughout the state. The line also offers an annual world cruise and cruises throughout the Caribbean, Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
