Arrival and aerial photos of ships USS Constellation Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of USS Constellation This majestic fleet of international tall ships will gather around Baltimore's waterfront for hundreds of thousands to witness as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the launch of the historic USS Constellation, the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy. There will be public tours of visiting tall ships from around the world, entertainment, ceremonies, receptions and a spectacular July 4th fireworks finale. Ships arrive on Wednesday, June 30th and depart Monday, July 5th. They will be docked at locations all around the Inner Harbor and Fells Point (see below for exact location of each ship). The Barn Burners Special ship events are: Public welcome ceremony for the ships' captains: Wednesday, June 30 at 6pm at Inner Harbor amphitheater Free public tours of visiting ships: July 1,2,3,4 from 10am-12noon and 2pm-6pm daily Ship sporting events - crew soccer and volleyball tournaments: Saturday, July 3 from 12noon-4pm at Inner Harbor Rash Field; sponsored by Baltimore Beach Volleyball Meet the Crew party featuring The Barn Burners "Baltimore's premiere roots rockers": Saturday, July 3 from 4-7 pm at Inner Harbor Rash Field Sail Baltimore is partnering with Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (this link has schedule for other events) and USS Constellation to produce the event.     Sailabration Ships (map of ship locations in Baltimore's harbor) June 29-July 5 Inner Harbor, Pier 5 Arrives June 29, 9 am Departs July 5, 7 am Sagres - 294' Portuguese Navy Tall Ship The sail training ship Sagres was built in 1937 in the shipyards of Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, having then received the name of Albert Leo Schlageter. She was the 3rd of a series of four ships built by the German Navy comprising Horst Vessel (now Eagle, of the US Coast Guard), Gorch Fock (now Tovarishch, Ukraine) and another one which was never finished. Another sister-ship, Mircea, was also built expressly for the Romanian Navy. Gorch Fock, the sail training ship built in 1958 for the German Navy bears now the masts of the unfinished ship. Damaged during World War II, Albert Leo Schlageter was captured in 1945 in Bremerhaven by the American forces and handed over to Brazil in 1948. In 1962 Portugal purchased the ship from Brazil in order to substitute the old sail training ship Sagres. Also this one was a formerly German ship, naimed Rickmer Rickmers, that had been captured by Portugal during World War I in the port of Horta, Azores, and incorporated in the Portuguese Navy as training ship in 1924. June 29-July 5 Inner Harbor, West Wall Arrives June 29, 8 am Departs July 5, 9am Cisne Branco - 257' Brazilian Navy tall ship In 2000, the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil, a square rigged training vessel for the Brazilian Navy was introduced. Cisne Branco (White Swan) is a sister ship of the Stad Amsterdam, built by Damen Shipyard. June 30-July 5 Inner Harbor, West Wall Arrives June 30, 9 am Departs July 5, 8 am Mircea - 269' Romanian Navy Tall Ship Five identical ships were built in Germany and we are collectively known as the "five sisters", they include: Tovarisch (Russia), Sagres (Portugal), Mircea (Romania), Gorch Fock II (Germany), and Eagle (USA).       June 30-July 5 Fells Point, Broadway Pier Arrives June 30, 10:30 am Departs July 5, 7 am Bluenose II - 181' Nova Scotian Tall Ship Home Port: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia - Bluenose II was built from the identical plans as the original Bluenose, in the same shipyard of Smith and Rhuland and by some of the same men. She is Identical to the original Bluenose in design of hull, rigging and sail plan. Bluenose II was sold to the government of Nova Scotia for $1 in 1971 by the Oland family of Halifax, and represents Nova Scotia as a sailing goodwill ambassador. June30-July 5 Inner Harbor, Pier 4 Arrives June 30, 10 am Departs July 5, 10 am Cuauhtemoc - 270' Mexican Navy Tall Ship The last of a series of four windjammers built by the naval shipyards of Bilbao, Spain (after the Gloria for Columbia, the Guayas for Equator, and the Simon Bolivar for Venezuela), the Mexican Navy training ship Cuauhtemoc bears the name of the last Aztec emperor who was imprisoned and executed in 1525 by order of Herman Cortes the conquistador. The ship has covered 236,930 nautical miles since 1982 as the training ship for the Mexican Navy. Besides participating in Osaka World Sail '83 and the Columbus Regatta in 1992, Cuauhtemoc completed a round-the-world cruise in 1990. June30-July 5 Fells Point, Broadway Pier Arrvies July 30, 10 am Departs July 5, 10 am Capitan Miranda - 205' staysail schooner, 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.

This event is produced by

Sail Baltimore

Mayor Martin O'Malley

USS Constellation