tall ship

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The show is set on board the American Pride tall ship docked at Long Beach’s Pine Avenue Pier, a 130-foot schooner that today is primarily used as an education-focused vessel.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025

Mexicans are mourning the death of two young Navy cadets who were killed on Saturday when the training tall ship ARM Cuauhtémoc crashed into Brooklyn Bridge.

From BBC • May 19, 2025

Sometime in the 1730s, Johann and Balthazar Hieronymus left their home along the Rhine River and set out for Rotterdam, where they boarded the Two Brothers, a tall ship bound for Philadelphia.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2023

The organization also offers separate tours of a Mayflower II reproduction tall ship.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

Then he saw against the Sun, sinking blood-red into a wrack of clouds, the black outline of a tall ship with torn sails riding up out of the West.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien