Galley duties elicit varying degrees of enthusiasm from hands aboard the newly converted sailing vessel Regina Maris from Amsterdam. The 176-foot steel schooner, horn as a motor fishing trawler, is one of a growing number of vessels that graduated hackwardji¡om engine to sail power.
millennium celebration. Ships from around the world will begin a six-week sailing event in San Juan , Puerto Rico, in May and head up the East Coast of North America, stopping in Miami, Norfolk, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, culminating in the Parade of Sail in New York City on 4 July, where President Bill Clinton will preside over an International Naval Review with other heads of state. JA
Fresh from a triumphant round-the-world voyage, the crew of the Russian Kruzenshtern mans the yards in Copenhagen. The world cruise featured the ship' s first visit to Australia since she participated in the Last Grain Race in 1939 as the Laeisz Line grain ship Padua.
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A glorious fleet of wind-driven ships crowds into Port Rhu , Douarnenez, as the old port plays host to vessels of late 1400s design (Matthew replica , second from bottom at left) and fishing craft and fine-lined ocean racers of today. But this is nothing new. Two thousand years ago, stout Veneri ships from this and neighboring ports of Brill any fought Caesar's¡ invading ships to a standstill, until the full power of the nascent Roman Empire was summoned to put them down.
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