USNA Yard Patrol vessels - four 108’ training ships
Yard Patrol Craft provide realistic, at sea training in navigation and seamanship for midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy and officer candidates at OCS. Yard Patrol craft can cruise for up to 1400 nautical miles at 12 knots speed, for a period of five days without refueling or replenishing.

USS Ashland - 610' U.S. Navy dock landing ship
USS ASHLAND is homeported at Little Creek, Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach, VA. She is the eighth and last of the WHIDBEY ISLAND (LSD 41) class ships to be commissioned and the second U.S. Navy ship to bear that name. She was commissioned in 1992.

Kings Pointer- 224’ US Merchant Marine training ship
The T/V Kings Pointer has been at the United States Merchant Marine Academy for 7 years, following an eight year career with the Military Sealift Command. built in 1984, she was Formally the USNS Contender, an ocean surveillance ship, Contender served almost exclusively in the Pacific Ocean on three month tours, motoring throughout the Pacific Basin at speeds of 2-3 knots, towing a 200' acoustical array listening for submarines.

Libertad - 301' Argentine Navy tall ship
The Argentinia Navy training ship Libertad is one of the largest sailing ships in the world. Her long bowsprit allows the rigging of four jibs as well as the storm jib, whose rope is secured on the bridge. She was built to replace the Presidente Sarmiento, an 85-meter, three-masted square-rigger, which was launched in 1898 in Great Britain, laid up in 1954 and turned into a museum in Buenos Aires. The Libertad was put into service in 1960. She was built for the training of Argentinian Navy officers. Once a year, after their four years at the Naval Academy, she takes the midshipmen on a cruise.

Nathan of Dorchester - USA
The Skipjack, Nathan of Dorchester, was built in Cambridge, Maryland by local volunteers under the direction of Master Shipwright Bobby Ruark. Three years in the making, she was launched July 4th 1994. Skipjacks, designed for dredging oysters on Chesapeake Bay, comprise the last commercial sailing fleet in the USA. The Nathan, combining native oak and pine with galvanized steel, was designed to teach history and aquatic sciences while touring the Choptank River.

USCG Barque Eagle - 295' tall ship training vessel
Eagle is the largest Tall Ship flying the Stars and Stripes and the only square-rigger in U.S. government service. The ship was built in 1936 by the Blohm and Voss Shipyard In Hamburg, Germany, and commissioned as Horst Wesssel, one of three sail training ships operated by Nazi Germany to train cadets. Five identical ships were built in Germany including: Tovarisch (Russia), Sagres II (Portugal), Mircea (Romania), and Gorch Fock II (Germany). Early in World War II EAGLE was converted to a cargo ship, transporting men and supplies throughout the Baltic Sea, but continued to perform a training mission as well. The ship is said to have downed three aircraft in combat during this period. Following World War II, it was taken as a war prize by the United States and a U.S. Coast Guard crew -- aided by the German crew still on board -- sailed the tall ship in 1946 from Bremerhaven to its new homeport in New London, Connecticut.

Amistad - 129' Freedom schooner from New Haven, CT
AMISTAD America owns and operates the freedom-schooner Amistad, a reproduction of the original vessel where 53 Mende Africans rebelled against their illegal capture by Spanish slave-traders. The surviving Africans won their freedom in a historic court battle that began in Connecticut and ended with former President John Quincy Adams successfully arguing on their behalf in the U.S. Supreme Court. Today's Amistad serves as a floating classroom with on-board and dockside exhibits.

11th Annual Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race - sponsored by Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race Committee. This annual race's mission is to promote public awareness of the Chesapeake Bay's maritime heritage and to encourage the preservation and improvement of the Chesapeake's natural resources. Race's proceeds benefit the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Brasil - 431' Brazilian Navy frigate and training ship

13th Annual Lighted Boat Parade
sponsored by Fells Point Yacht Club
This festive on-water parade kicks off Baltimore's holiday season and benefits Toys for Tots. The Parade route runs through Fells Point, the Inner Harbor, Locust Point and Canton.