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This is a sail ship appreciation account! ⛵

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Setting Sails on Star of India

⏱️ 12:49

Old footage, poor quality, but very informative!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ1X...

#sailships #StarOfIndia
Three-masted square-rigged sailing ship with a hull painted black on the top and red on the bottom.
July 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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A friend shared this with me - it's a land vehicle that looks like a hull if a ship driving on a road in Florida. I checked the comments trying to figure out what this could be and people are saying a parade float for Gasparilla!

www.reddit.com/r/funny/comm...
A screenshot from the video linked above showing said vehicle. It has a brown wooden-looking hull, a tall sterncastle and a guy standin on the main deck. It's about the size of a truck
July 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Today, the remaining parts - it's figurehead and stern castle with the royal command room - are displayed at the Maritime Museum in Stockholm. Interestingly, the stern we see today was added after the ship was damage during the war. 4/4
The ship's figurehead is a statue of Amphion, the son of Zeus and the ship's namesake. In the background, we see the ship's model in a glass cabinet and to the right - the entire stern of the ship, which is ornamented and has four windows of the command room.
June 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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What surprised me was that the ship was still used afterwards! It was even used as the King's personal command ship during the Russo-Swedish war! It was later used as a barracks ship until most of it was broken up for firewood at the end of the 19th century. 3/4
A photograph of the hull of the ship without the masts with a roof built over the main deck. The caption on Wikipedia said "Amphion as a barracks ship"
June 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Amphion was supposed to be a royal yacht to King Gustav III. It had a shallow draft and was equipped with oars for maneuverability. According to the Wikipedia article, "[s]he suffered from poor seakeeping ability and was also too heavy to row" so she got shipwrecked on her maiden voyage. 2/4
A model of a wooden sailing ship with two masts. The hull is painted blue on the very top and white below the water line.
June 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I've been reading about early naval architecture and came across Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, a Swedish shipbuilder who is considered to be the first naval architect because he used scientific methods in shipbuilding. However, one of the ships he designed, was not a very successful vessel. 1/4
An oil painting of a white man with grey hair, curled on the side, wearing a blue hooded jacket.
June 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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It's really big!

#Pommern #sailships
Four-masted barque with a metal hull. It's currently a museum and it's permanently docked in Finland. The same ship, photographed in 1903, in full sail.
June 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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On a more positive note, the Leif Erikson Viking Ship Inc still celebrate Leif Erikson day with this pretty ship - the Norseman

townlively.com/events-plann...

#TheNorseman #sailships
Replica Viking ship with a dark brown hull, a wooden dragon head at the bow, 7 circular shields painted in the colors of Nordic countries on the side and a striped red and white square sail with a black crow. I think it's a crow, I'm bad with birds 😅
June 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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I looked it up and it's currently displayed on Knife River Duluth, Minnesota. The most up-to-date photo I could find was this one from 2019.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Er...

#LeifErikson #sailships
The hull of Leif Erikson ship with trimmed masts. It's white above the waterline light brown just below, with a maroon keel.
June 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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It's very cute!

#sailship
A two-masted wooden ship with square sails. There's a colorful insignia on tho of the sails.
May 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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I got intrigued and looked for it on Wikipedia and wow! It's stunning! 😍

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian...

It's been in active duty since 1931!

🔹Length
100.5 m (329 ft 9 in) w/bowsprit
82.4 m (270 ft)
🔹Beam 15.56 m (51.0 ft)
🔹Height 54.0 m (177.2 ft)
🔹Draught 7.3 m (24 ft)

#sailship
A large sailing ship with three masts and black sails.
April 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Juno is a very pretty sailing barge, designed by Andrew Wolstenholme, built by Charlie Ward and launched in 2000.

#sailships
Small sailing ship with red triangular and trapezoidal sails.
April 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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From www.reddit.com/r/Ships/comm...

#sailships #shipfacts
Reddit user asked "What is this thing and what does it do? Hold up the bowsprit or just decoration?" Below is a picture of a sailing ship with a section at the front of the ship circled in red. Silly-Membership6350 replies: "The ship's toilets are enclosed within those rails. They were basically just open air benches with holes cut in them that defecating Sailors would sit upon. Hence the word "head" being used to refer to sailor's toilets. These would have been the toilets used by the non-officers. Officers generally had their own bathroom(s) within the section of their quarters aft (where the stern or quarter gallery is) or had bed pans"
April 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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The successor ship, Pride of Baltimore II, was commissioned in 1988. It is a Goodwill Ambassador to both the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland.

🔸Length 100 ft (30 m)
🔸Beam 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m)
🔸Height 107 ft (33 m)
🔸Draft 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_o...
The second version of the ship has the same sail rigging. The line going along the brown hull is orange.
April 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I've been seeing a log of photos of Pride of Baltimore on bluesky and it's a really pretty ship so I went to Wikipedia to read about it! Apparently, the one in commission today is the second ship by that name! The first one was in 1977 but was lost at sea in 1986 :(

#PrideOfBaltimore #sailships
Photo of the Pride of Baltimore taken in 1981. It's a two-masted topsail schooner, meaning it's main sails go along the length of the ship, rather than perpendicular to it but unlike a regular schooner, a topsail schooner also has perpendicular square sails at the top of its foremast. In case of Pride of Baltimore, it has three triangular sails connected to the bowsprit (the long pole at the front of the ship). Then a trapezoid-shaped sail attached to each mast, two square sails at the top of the foremast and a triangular sail at the top of the mainmast. The vessel itself is brown with a white stripe along the top of the hull.
April 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I was intrigued by that last stamp (bottom right) so I looked it up.

Meet Skoleskibet Danmark! A full-rigged Danish training ship launched in 1932 and still in commission today!

🔸Length 252 ft (77 m)
🔸Beam 32 ft (9.8 m)
🔸Draft 17 ft (5.2 m)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danmark...

#sailship
Large 3-masted ship with 26 sails. The hull of the ship and the sails are white.
April 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM