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"While we were on the yards....the Ayacucho had spread her wings,
and, with yards braced sharp up, was standing athwart our hawse.
There is no prettier sight in the world than a full-rigged, clipper-built
brig, sailing sharp on the wind."                                                        
- Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast 1840

Gallery: Sailing Ships

Each of the following pages contains a photo of the ship, and a short descriptive history. (Some of the ships may be slightly distorted because of the nature of the glass bottle.)

MARQUES, three-masted barque, 1917-1984

QUEEN MARGARET, four-masted barque, 1893

TELANAK, clipper ship, 1859

HOWARD D. TROOP, pilot boat, 1896

CARL VINNEN, two-topsail schooner, 1921

BLUENOSE, two-masted racing schooner, 1921

SPIRIT OF MASSACHUSETTS, sail training ship, 1984

FOUR-MASTED SCHOONER, Hull Number 1 - the first ship I built

TSZ'RU , Sail/Steamship, 1869

THOMAS W. LAWSON, seven-masted schooner, 1902

RAVEN, Saint John River woodboat, 1895

JAMES TUFT, four-masted barque, 1901

ADDIE M. LAWRENCE, six-masted schooner, 1902

HMS REVENGE, galleon, 1587

GLORY OF THE SEAS, clipper ship, 1869

DANMARK, sail training ship, 1933

FOR MORE SAILING SHIPS SEE... THE YACHTSMAN'S PAGE

What Life Under Sail Was Really Like....

The Finnish barque Moshulu, in a Roaring Forties gale, 1938. Photo taken from the yardarm by apprentice Eric Newby, reproduced from The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby, 1954