Her report follows: fter a week on the new, 228-passenger Royal Clipper, a five-masted fully rigged tall ship inspired by the great German clipper Preussen, built in 1902, I wondered if I could ...

On a fully rigged ship there are many lines that make the ship work well. There is “standing rigging.” It holds the masts in place and makes certain that they don’t fall in a storm.

The North Star of Herschel Island, a fully rigged ship, is the last of the sailing Arctic cargo ships. The Zodiac is the largest working schooner on the West Coast. The Cutty Sark is a 52-foot ...

"There is something fascinating about a fully rigged ship inside a glass bottle. People ask me if I broke the bottle, put the ship in and glued the bottle back, or created the bottle around the ...

In 1954, Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla, the founding parade krewe, commissioned the construction of a 165-foot fully rigged pirate ship, which has led the annual invasion of Tampa ever since.

The community of Maitland, N.S., is celebrating 150 years since the launch of the largest wooden-hulled, fully-rigged ship ever built in Canada. But a museum in the former home of the vessel's ...

CLIMBING the mast of a Class A fully rigged ship is something cadets as young as 13 do on a daily basis. Even when the vessels are out at sea in huge swells and high winds, it is still essential ...