Archive for the ‘Tall Ship Videos’ Category
The Star of India, what a beautiful ship to still be sailing. As the story goes she almost did not make it. On her first cruise sailing for Calcutta from Liverpool in January of 1864 under Captain William John Storry a collision occurred at night. A Spanish brig running without lights pulled the hit and run causing considerable damage carrying off her jib-boom and rigging.
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The HMS Surprise was a 24-gun sixth rate ship of the Royal Navy. She was built to the 1741 revised specifications of the 1719 Establishment by James Wyatt and John Major at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire and launched on 27 January 1745.
One big surprise was the aircraft carrier The USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76 in the background of the video kind of gives away the the time of the recording.
