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Kaskelot at the 2004 Bristol Harbour festival in England.
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Kaskelot at the 2004 Bristol Harbour festival in England.

The USCGC Eagle.
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The USCGC Eagle.

Kajama, a tourist tallship sailing in Toronto Harbour, Lake Ontario
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Kajama, a tourist tallship sailing in Toronto Harbour, Lake Ontario

The defining feature of square rigged tall ships - going aloft to set and stow sails.
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The defining feature of square rigged tall ships - going aloft to set and stow sails.

The Earl of Pembroke
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The Earl of Pembroke

Over 36 tall ships participated in the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in Portsmouth, part of the fleet of 167 naval, merchant and tall ships from 36 countries
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Over 36 tall ships participated in the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in Portsmouth, part of the fleet of 167 naval, merchant and tall ships from 36 countries

The masts and yards of a brig, a typical tall ship.
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The masts and yards of a brig, a typical tall ship.

Tall ship is an informal collective term for some kinds of sailing ships. Contrary to other sailing ship classification terms, tall ship does not describe a particular kind of sailing ship identified by a sail plan – both barques and brigantines, for instance, are tall ships.

A tall ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques.

Traditional rigged vessels differ from modern sailing vessels with gaff rigs, topmasts and topsails. Due to the additional crew and rigging required to carry topmasts and gaff rigs and the ability to construct taller, hollow masts of aluminum and steel, separate topmasts are generally cost prohibitive on modern designs.

The term has come into widespread use even amongst landlubbers in the mid-20th century with the advent of The Tall Ships' Races.

While Sail Training International (STI) has extended the definition of tall ship for the purpose of its races to embrace any sailing vessel with more than 30 ft. (9.14 m) waterline length and on which at least half the people on board are aged 15 to 25, this definition can include many modern sailing yachts, so for the purposes of this article, tall ship will refer to those vessels rated as class "B" or above (Fore and aft rigged vessels between 100 to 160 feet in length, and all square rigged vessels).

The well-known poem "Sea Fever" by the English Poet Laureate John Masefield contains the line "And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by", inspired by the poet's experience of serving in sailing ships during his youth (see [link].)

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Modern tall ships

(listed alphabetically by vessel name)

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Types of sailing vessels and rigs
Bark | Barque | Barquentine | Bermuda rig | Bilander | Brig | Brigantine | Caravel | Carrack | Catamaran | Catboat | Clipper | Dutch Clipper | Cog | Corvette | Cutter | Dhow | Fifie | Fluyt | Fore & Aft Rig | Frigate | Full Rigged Ship | Gaff Rig | Galleon | Gunter Rig | Hermaphrodite Brig | Junk | Ketch | Mersey Flat | Multihull | Nao | Norfolk Wherry | Pink | Pocket Cruiser | Polacca | Pram | Proa | Schooner | Ship of the Line | Sloop | Smack | Snow | Square Rig | Tall Ship | Thames Sailing Barge | Trimaran | Wherry | Windjammer | Windsurfer | Xebec | Yacht | Yawl

 

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