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Ships which have been welcomed to our port by Falmouth Tall Ships AssociationThe KruzenshternAlthough she had been here in the past, her first official visit to Falmouth Tall Ships Association was in July 2003, followed by September 2004. Kruzenshtern was the last Cape Horner to be built - in 1926 and was named the “Padua” She first worked carrying cargo on the Chilean nitrate route. With the end of that trade she moved to the grain trade. The big steel barques of the Flying P Line were built to be driven hard—the skippers were instructed to seek out gales in order to make the fastest passages possible. As the Padua she once managed 351 nautical miles in one 24 hour period and went out to Port Lincoln in Australia from Hamburg in 37 days. During the war she was laid up in North Germany and in 1946 she was handed over to the Soviet navy as a war prize. Today the "Kruzenshtern" is the world's second largest sailing ship and, without a doubt, the most famous ship in the contemporary Russian sailing fleet. The "Kruzenshtern" is a unique school under sails. It allows future seamen a glimpse at the sailing romanticism of an age gone by as they are training for duties on modern ships. In 1974 she was the first Soviet ship, together with the Tovarishch to take part in a Tall Ships Race. The MIRMir is our most regular visitor. She was here in June 2004, June 2005 and June 2006 MIR("Peace") is the third ship of of a series of six ships which were built in the 80-s at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk/Poland. The SedovSedov visited Falmouth several times before the Tall Ships Association was started. She is owned by the Murmansk State Technical University. She is the largest sail training vessel in the world with a length overall of 1175m and a sail area of 4150 sq. m. 120 cadets , future navigating officers, ship engineers, radio operators enjoy training on board and she takes 50 guest trainees on each voyage. The Grand TurkThe Grand Turk is a replica of a three-masted 1780 Royal Navy Frigate complete with cannons which was the type of ship which took part in the Battle of Trafalgar. She was built in Marmaris, Turkey in 1996 for the price of £2 million as an action vehicle for the film and TV industry, and is well known for depicting HMS Indefatigable in the TV series Hornblower. She is 46.3 m long. She visited Falmouth on June 2003. MercedesHome: port Amsterdam ‘Mercedes’ was inaugurated in 2005 and takes part in the Tall Ships races and is available for charter with a maximum of 140 passengers. Her captain is Oliver Wipperfürth She visited us for 6 days in July 2006 and we were able to arrange three evening 3 hour sails with refreshments at £35 a head and these were really well supported with around 100 each evening. One local firm booked an evening just for themselves with friends and clients and had 130 people on board for their sail. Captain Oliver Wippefuerth was thrilled with his visit. The massive brigantine is designed especially to provide day sailing in total unashamed luxury with comfortable lounges, deck saloon and bar and the rig has been designed so people can help sail the ship if they wish. ArtemisShe has her name from the goddess of the hunt, and it was as a whaler she began her career on the high seas. The Artemis was built in Norway in 1926 and served as a whaling ship until the end of the forties, operating mainly in the northern and southern polar seas. From her home port of Oslo, she sailed to Spitsbergen (Svalbard) and into the Bering Sea, fitted with a steam engine, two auxiliary masts and a variety of harpoon guns. In the fifties, the Artemis was refitted to haul cargo and operated mainly as a tramp freighter between Asia and South America until she was bought by a Danish captain from Marstal. Despite her ready seaworthiness, by the end of the nineties the Artemis was too small to operate as a competitive freighter. She then changed hands again and was reconverted into an elegant sailing ship in 2001. The Artemis now plies the seas in the form of an imposing three-masted barque.
Artemis was in Falmouth at the end of May and we organised 2 three hour sails which were very well supported. The Europa
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