Sail Baltimore - Ships coming to OpSail 2000

Photo	Location	Description
	Inner Harbor West Wall (6/21-24)	Amerigo Vespucci - Italy, 330' (will be in Baltimore June 21-24, 2000) Full-rigged ship (frigate). Built 1930-31 of steel by Royal Shipyard. Formerly was named Castellamare di Stabia. Country: Italy. Built as a sail-training ship. Originally one of two ships built on the inspiration of Francesco Rotundi, Lt. Colonel in the Naval Engineering Corps. The Cristoforo Colombo was given to Russia at the end of the war as reparations, and today sails as the Dunay. Inspired by the big 19th century frigates with high freeboard, stern gallery and white-painted strakes, her bow and stern decorated with intricate gilt carvings, Amerigo Vespucci is one of the grandest of the tall ships and a spectacular sight under full sail.
	Canton - Balt. Marine Center (6/25-29)	Bat'kivschyna - Ukraine 95' long, 18' beam,10' draft The schooner Bat'kivschyna and the brigantine Pochaina belong to Dmytro Birioukovitch and Roman Maliarchuk who own a travel agency in Kyiv. They are letting the world know about Ukraine and furthering their own sailing interests by sailing around the globe and acting as goodwill ambassadors for Ukraine. Mr. Birioukovitch, who will captain the voyage of the two sailing vessels, is a civil engineer and master yachtsman in Kyiv. Along with his two older brothers, he has been building ships with Ferro-cement hulls since 1960.
	Inner Harbor Pier One (6/23-26)	*Californian* - United States The Californian is a 145' full-scale re-creation of the 1848-vintage Revenue Marine Service Cutter, C.W. Lawrence, one of the fastest and grandest ships in the evolution of the United States Revenue Marine Service, and the first to be assigned to the California coast. The Californian was built at Spanish Landing in San Diego, California, and launched in May 1984. The Californian exemplifies the highest level of speed and elegance achieved during the Revenue Marine era.
	Inner Harbor Pier 3 (6/21-29)	Capitan Miranda - Uruguay The crew of the staysail schooner Capitan Miranda consists of 40 men and 33 cadets overseen by 11 officers. This ship is used for the training future officers of the Uruguayan Navy. The ship was launched in Spain in 1930.
photo by Greg Pease	Inner Harbor Finger Piers	*Clipper City* - USA The first small ships seen in Baltimore's harbor at its founding in 1729 were tobacco ships loading locally grown tobacco bound for England. When they returned, they brought indentured servants and manufactured goods not readily available in the colonies. After the Revolution, Baltimore merchants developed a flourishing trade in flour and grain with the West Indies and South America. This trade was carried out in fast Clipper schooners, first designed in the Chesapeake Bay, that made Baltimore's name known worldwide. During the 19th century, sailing ships grew ever larger. In 1849, Baltimore sent beautiful Clipper ships to the California gold fields. Large coasting schooners carried coal and lumber from one east coast port to another. Clipper City is a replica of one of the "Tall Ships" that carried lumber from 1854 to 1892.
	Inner Harbor West Wall	*Danmark* - Denmark Danmark is a 253' steel ship built in 1933 and owned by the Danish Marine Authority. On a visit in New York in 1939, Danmark's captain offered her services to the US as he wished to avoid surrendering her to Axis powers. During World War II, Danmark served as a school ship at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. She was returned to Denmark after the war.
	Inner Harbor Pier 4	*Dewaruci* - Indonesia The name Dewaruci is derived from the name of a sea god in Indonesian folklore symbolizing honesty and bravery. The figurehead of the ship is a representation of the god. Destined for the Indonesian Naval Academy, construction of the 191-foot, three-masted ship was started in 1952 by H.C. Stulcken in Hamburg, Germany, and she was launched in 1953. Ever since then the barquentine has been based in Surabaya and used as the Indonesian Navy's sail-training ship.
	Canton Balt. Marine Center	*Edna E. Lockwood* - USA The 1889 oyster dredging bugeye Edna E. Lockwood (a National Historic Landmark) is part of the collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. She is the only surviving bugeye which maintains the sailing rig and appearance of her working days. During the glory years of the Chesapeake oyster industry, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bugeyes harvested more oysters than any other vessel. They were uniquely designed for their job, with shallow draft to sail over the oyster bars and thick log bottoms to withstand the abrasion of sharp oyster shells. Edna was built on Tilghman Island, Maryland, in 1889, and oystered every season until 1967. She is 53 feet 6 inches long, and her bottom is made of nine logs. She was restored to sailing condition in 1979.
	Fells Pt. Broadway Pier (6/21/28)	*Esmeralda* - Chile A four-masted schooner, 371' long, Esmeralda was built in 1953 in Cadiz, Spain, from plans used to build Spain's Juan Sebastian de Elcano 27 years previously. She is used by the Chilean Navy.
	Canton Balt. Marine Center	*Farewell* - USA Over a two-year period Andy Merrill built the 47' long Farewell in his backyard in Annapolis, MD and launched her in 1972. Farewell was home to he and his family until 1982. David, Andy’s eldest son, then day chartered the boat in St. Michaels, MD for 4 years. David also raced the boat in various traditional boat races on the Chesapeake and never placed less than 2nd. Her second owner purchased Farewell in 1994 to use as a coastal sail-training vessel for her three pre-teen sons. In 1996, she and the three boys cruised from Annapolis, MD to Camden, ME. With Farewell she competed in the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race each year from 1994 to 1998 taking 2nd place in 1997 with a crew of two and taking 1st place in all other races. 1998 was the big win with 5 awards including 1st overall on corrected time. In early 1999 her present owners, Captain Linda Meakes and her husband, Mike, purchased Farewell . Captain Meakes has a 100 ton near coastal Masters License, and has worked as master or mate on board many larger schooners during her maritime career. Mike has served as deckhand on other schooners as well, and now is Mate/Engineer/Bosun for Farewell. Since their home is in Baltimore, the Farewell has moved closer to Baltimore and is now berthed on Bear Creek in Dundalk, Maryland. Their future plans include participating in various educational programs to promote sail training and maritime traditions and history.
	Inner Harbor Pier 5 (6/26-29)	*Gloria* - Colombia The 249' GLORIA is a three-masted barque, carrying 15,000 square feet of sail, one of four built in Spain in 1980 for Latin American countries. Similar in design and rigging, the four ships - SIMON BOLIVAR from Venezuela, GUAYAS from Ecuador, CUAUHTEMOC from Mexico, and GLORIA - are almost identical sister ships. Gloria accommodates 10 officers, 50 full time crew, and 75 cadets. She has a 33 foot beam and 16 ft draft. She is part of the Armada National de Colombia.
	Inner Harbor Pier 5	*Gorch Fock* - Germany Gorch Fock is the replacement for the original Gorch Fock (now the Ukrainian Tovarishch). She was built in 1958 and is a three masted bark, 293' long, and serves as a school ship of the German Navy. She is named for a popular German writer of sea stories, Hans Kinau (1880-1916), who used the pseudonym Gorch Fock (fock means "foresail" in German). Kinau perished at sea abroad the cruiser Weisbaden during the Battle of Jutland in May 1916.
	Inner Harbor West Wall (6/21-29)	*Guayas* - Ecuador Ecuador's 262 foot Guayas was built in Bilbao, Spain in 1977 for the Ecuadorian Naval Superior School in Guayaquil on the River Guayas. It is one of three barques built by Astilleros y Talleres Celay and is named in memory of the first steamship to be built in South America in 1841. Guayas accommodates 180 people. She has a 35 foot beam and 14 foot draft, is barque rigged with 17,000 square feet of sail. Her figurehead is of a giant condor.
	Fells Pt. Broadway Pier (6/27-29)	*Harvey Gamage* - USA Two masted schooner built in 1973 in South Bristol, ME by shipwright Harvey Gamage. Dedicated to sea education. Rig: two masted, gaff-rigged schooner Max: length: 131' Beam: 23.5' Draft: 10' Mast: height: 97' Material: wood Engine: 220 hp diesel Crew: 7-10
	Fells Pt. Broadway Pier	*Howard Blackburn* - USA, 58' The Howard Blackburn is named for a giant Nova Scotian who rowed sixty miles into Newfoundland with the frozen body of his dorymate, five days without food or water, after they were separated in a gale from the Gloucester schooner Grace L. Fears in the winter of 1883. Blackburn lost all his fingers by frostbite. In 1899 he sailed the sloop Great Western singlehanded, in spite of his disability, from Gloucester to England, and in 1901, he repeated his astounding feat in the twenty-five-foot sloop Great Republic, to Portugal.
	Canton Balt. Marine Center (6/23-26)	*HMS Rose* - 179’ Tall ship from Connecticut, USA The world's largest active wooden sailing vessel, "HMS" Rose, conducts adventure education programs open to the general public. Rose is a full-rigged ship, a replica of an 18th century Royal Navy frigate that cruised the American coast during the American Revolution.
	Canton Balt. Marine Center	*Imagine...!* - USA Imagine is a seventy-six foot, gaff-rigged, wood schooner built in 1997 of cedar, fir, cypress, and mahogany. She is based in Annapolis, MD.
	Inner Harbor Pier 5	*Kathryn M. Lee* - USA Chesapeake Bay schooner - 92' long, 20' beam, 6' draft, crew of 4. The Kathryn M. Lee is a working sailing oyster dredge. She continues to dredge oysters in MD and is the only schooner in the fleet (there were 82 schooners in the MD oyster fleet in 1900). She is probably the last sailing schooner still working in a North American Fishery. She still has most of her original equipment from her launch in 1923.
	Canton Balt. Marine Center (6/23-26)	*Maryland Dove* - USA The Maryland Dove is a full-scale operating replica of the ship that carried supplies for a 1634 expedition from England. Settlers arrived on the passenger ship, the Ark. Both ships sailed from the Isle of Wight on November 22, 1633. They were soon separated at sea, but came back together six weeks later at Barbados. The ships stopped in Virginia before arriving at St. Clement's Island on March 25, 1634. In August 1635, the Dove set sail for England loaded with beaver pelts and timber. She never arrived in England and was presumed lost in a North Atlantic storm. The replica of the Dove was built on the Chesapeake Bay's Eastern Shore in 1975, using many 17th-century methods and tools. The keel was laid in June 1977 and the ship was commissioned in 1978.
	Canton Balt. Marine Center	*Mistress* - USA George Roosevelt owned the 78' long Mistress in 1932, and raced her in a Transatlantic race from Newport to Plymouth and the ensuing Fastnet event. Mistress was built in Nova Scotia. She has been recently acquired by Glenn & Chris McCormick, and is undergoing a 10 year journey of interior redesign.
	Canton Balt. Marine Center (6/25-29)	*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.
	Fells Pt. Thames St.	*Schooner Nighthawk* Nighthawk is a U.S. Merchant Marine passenger vessel, built in 1880. She is a 19th century style gaff rigged schooner, and voyaged to the Caribbean islands, Mexico, and South America prior to arriving in Baltimore in 1986.
	Canton Balt. Marine Center	*Norfolk* - USA The Norfolk is 80' long skipjack. She was built in June 1900, christened the George C. Collier, and dredged oysters for many years on the Bay. During the 1960's and 70's she sailed the Bay as the Allegheny, and acted as an ambassador of ecology until 1978 until she was donated to her current owners, the City of Norfolk. She now sails the Bay representing the city of Norfolk, with a crew of volunteers, mostly aged 14-18.
	Inner Harbor Pier 1 (6/23-28)	*Oosterschelde* - Netherlands Three masted, topsail chooner, built in 1918, 40.5 meters long. Oosterschelde is the last remaining representative of the large fleet of schooners that sailed under the Dutch flag at the beginning of this century. Oosterschelde was built in the Netherlands in 1918 at the order of the Rotterdam shipping company H.A.A.S. As a freighter the ship could carry some hundred tons of cargo. Clay, bricks and wood were among the cargo, as well as salted herring, bran, potatoes, straw and bananas. In 1921 the ship was sold and became property of captain Kramer. Under his command the Oosterschelde sailed along the European coast and was regularly found off the coasts of Africa and in the Mediterranean. In 1939 the ship was sold to a Danish shipping company in Aeroskobing and renamed Fuglen. She was one of the most advanced ships of the Danish fleet. In 1954 Fuglen was sold to Sam Petterson, a Swede from Skarhamn. Later he sold the ship to another man from Skarhamn, Denis Inberg. In Sweden the ship was converted into a modern motorcoaster; she sailed primarily in the Baltic, under the name Sylvan.
photo by Bill McAllen	Inner Harbor Finger Piers	*Pride of Baltimore II* - USA Maryland’s 170' long Pride of Baltimore II is an authentic recreation of the 1812 "Baltimore Clippers," built in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and commissioned in 1988 in Fell’s Point. She and her crew of 12 serve as the Goodwill Ambassador for the State of Maryland and Port of Baltimore, travelling the globe in her mission to bring Maryland to the world. Pride II recently returned home from an 11-month trip to Asia, which covered over a dozen countries and over 25,000 miles. This year she will be joining tall ships both at home and abroad as she travels the East Coast with OpSail before heading across the Atlantic for a tour of Europe. Each leg of her journey will be traveled by thousands of students, who can come aboard on-line with Pride II’s Internet education program. To learn more about Pride II, visit http://www.pride2.org.
	Inner Harbor Pier 6	*Simon Bolivar* - Venezuela The 270' SIMON BOLIVAR is one of four barques built in Spain in 1980 for Latin American countries. Similar in design and rigging, the four ships - GLORIA from Columbia, GUAYAS from Ecuador, CUAUHTEMOC from Mexico, and SIMON BOLIVAR - are almost identical sister ships.
photo by Chris Portwine	Inner Harbor West Wall	*Soren Larsen* - New Zealand The Soren Larsen, 146' long, is one of the most magnificently restored and adapted tallships still sailing in the world. She was built in 1949 to the lines of a late 19th century brigantine in northern Denmark by Soren Larsen & Sons at Nykobing Mors, massively built with oak outer planking on double oak frames with an inner hull planking of oak From 1949 - 1972 she traded throughout the Baltic, British and European ports carrying general cargo, timber & grain. In 1978 she was saved from destruction by her present family owners in Colchester, England, and became the star of "The Onedin Line", a classic BBC television series, and films such as "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "Count of Monte Cristo" and "Shackleton" - which involved sailing north to the Arctic Circle into the pack-ice of Greenland. In 1987 she was the Flagship for the Australian Bicentenary re-enactment voyage of the First Fleet and led a fleet of eight Tallships on a 22,000 mile voyage from England to Australia via Rio de Janerio and Cape Town. In 1992 she won her class in the Transatlantic Tallship Race via New York and Liverpool during the Columbus Grand Regatta. Today she is the only square rigged 'Cape Horner' in New Zealand.
	Canton Balt. Marine Center	*Wenonah* - USA The Wenonah is a 40' long gaff-rigged friendship sloop.
	Canton Balt. Marine Center (6/21-29)	*Witchcraft* - USA The 60' Witchcraft is a Marconi yawl, launched in 1903 in Boston as a gaff sloop cutter rigged vessel. In 1930 she was re-rigged in her present condition and moved to the Chesapeake Bay in 1934. This summer is the first time in nearly a quarter century she will spend the season once again sailing. The Witchcraft is possibly the oldest Lawley yacht of its size.
	Fells Pt. Broadway Pier (6/24-27)	Zenobe Gramme - Belgium (6/21 - cancelled - not coming to Baltimore due to technical problems near Charleston, NC) The 28 meter Zenobe Gramme is a Bermuda ketch of the Belgian Navy that serves as school and trainingship for officers and NCO's. The ship carried out several research missions, investigating undersea acoustic problems, currents and other phenomena. She has a crew of two officers, 7 NCOs and 6 sailors.
		Additional OpSail Vessels
	Inner Harbor Pier 4	*USCGC Harriet Lane* HARRIET LANE was named in honor of President Buchanan's niece and official White House hostess, Miss Harriet Lane. This remarkable lady became the most admired and celebrated woman of her time. Not since Abigail Adams had the president's home seen so brilliant a social life, thanks to her tact, diplomacy, and great charm.HARRIET LANE is a multi-mission Coast Guard Cutter, responsible for a variety of Coast Guard missions including Search and Rescue, Enforcement of Laws and treaties, Maritime Defense, and Protection of the Marine Environment. The versatility of the famous class cutter makes it a cost effective platform in carrying out national objectives.
	North Locust Pt. (6/23-26)	*USS McFaul* McFAUL was built at Ingalls Shipyard located in Pascagoula, MS. Christening was 12 April 97, and Commissioning was 25 April of 98 in Savannah, GA. McFAUL has been assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and homeported in Norfolk, VA. The mission of McFAUL is to conduct prompt, sustained combat operations at sea, in support of national policy. She is equipped to operate in a high-density, multi-threat environment as an integral member of a carrier battle group or Surface Action Group (SAG). In addition to her own self-defense capabilities in Anti-Air Warfare (AAW), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW), McFAUL can effectively provide local area protection to the battle group, surface action group, and other ships.