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Ship profiles
Tall Ships are distinguished by a four tier class system - A, B, C & D
Class A's are typically all square-rigged vessels and all other vessels over 40m length overall.
Below are the FIRST 10 CLASS A vessels to sign up for the NewcastleGateshead leg of the races...
POGORIA
The fully rigged ship Pogoria was built in 1980 for the Iron Shackle Fraternity - a marine educational project which was conceived and founded by Captain Adam Jasser in 1971. The project was later sponsored by the Polish National Television, the TV Magazine 'Flying Dutchman'.
The current owner and operator of Pogoria is the Sail Training Association Poland. She is 154 feet long overall with accommodation for up to 50 crew and students.
CHRISTIAN RADICHChristian Radich is owned and run by the Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation who's first ship was Christiania, which sailed as a training ship from 1881 to 1901. It was then Statsraad Erichsen from 1901-1936, which was replaced by the current Christian Radich.
She is named after her benefactor, a lumber dealer with a fascination for life at sea who died in 1889 and left sufficient money to start building a new training ship in Oslo. However, the construction did not commence until 1936 and Christian Radich was launched a year later, sailing since then as a training ship for the merchant navy.
For more information on the Christian Radich please CLICK HERE
PRINCE WILLIAMPRINCE WILLIAM is owned by the Tall Ships Youth Trust, the UK’s leading sail training organisation. They provide exhilarating and inspirational Tall Ship Sailing Adventures on the UK’s best known magnificent 60 metre square-rigged brigs - PRINCE WILLIAM – and her sister ship STAVROS S NIARCHOS.
The two brigs take over 2,500 young people to sea ever year. Onboard everyone learns how to sail the ship as you are the crew! You will set the sails, climb the rigging, take the helm, stand watches and work in the galley.
The ships can take 48 people who are split into 3 watches - red, white and blue. Each watch takes it in turn to sail the ship and this provide a great fun environment to face challenges, meet new people and develop personal skills.
Voyages are available to everyone aged 16-75 and last from 3 – 25 nights. They take place all round the world – UK, Europe, Mediterranean, Canaries and Caribbean.
For more information on the Price William please CLICK HERE
EENDRACHTEendracht is owned and operated by the Dutch Foundation and National Society `Het Zeilend Zeeschip` which offers active sailing experiences to young people and adults whilst promoting the maritime traditions of the Netherlands as a seagoing nation.
As a 55m (excluding bowsprit) three masted schooner, Eendracht replaced her smaller predecessor Johann Smidt and was commissioned by H. M. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on 29 August 1989.
For more information on the Eendracht please CLICK HERE
 TENACIOUS
Tenacious is the largest wooden tall ship of her kind in the world. The innovative wood epoxy laminate build started in 1996 with a team made up of skilled designers, engineers, shipwrights and fitters. These were supplemented by a volunteer force of over 1500 able bodied and disabled people who came on working shorewatch holidays from all over the UK and abroad.
Since commencing voyages in September 2000, TENACIOUS has taken 3,887 people to sea. Of these 1,505 people were physically disabled and 546 were wheelchair users. Their disabilities included Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Spina Bifida, Paraplegia and many more…..
TENACIOUS’ many facilities enable disabled crew to perform their duties independently alongside their able-bodied shipmates.
The ship has access throughout for disabled crew, including wheelchair users, with flat wide decks and powered lifts. There is a speaking compass for the use of blind crew members and bright track radar for partially sighted crew. An induction loop and vibrator alarms have been installed for hard of hearing crew members.
There are special cabins, toilets and shower facilities for disabled crew and the ship is fitted with a mess deck, fully equipped galley, workshop and, of course, a well stocked bar and saloon area.
JEAN DE LA LUNE
Jean de la Lune was built in 1957 in Lorient as a French Motor Fishing Vessel for the tuna grounds off the Azores and is named after the French Nursery Rhyme about the man in the moon coming down to Earth.
At the end of her fishing career in the mid-1970s, she was sold and taken to Colchester where she was rebuilt as a staysail schooner, chartering from 1983 mainly in the Western Highlands. After a spell in the Caribbean, she was sold to John Reid in 1988 who gradually converted her to a square rigged sailing ship, re-launching her in 1995.
EUROPAEuropa was launched in 1911 at the Stülcken shipyard in Hamburg and named Senator Brockes. Her construction had been ordered by the city of Hamburg for use as a lightship in the mouth of the Elbe, where three lightships - Elbe 1, 2 and 3, already lay. The Germans built and fitted out their lightships as sailing ships. She was manned by a crew of 12, without engines or electricity, in one of the roughest stretches of water in the North Sea.
In the seventies, she was finally allowed to leave this anchorage to start her second career. Europa was bought by a German from Rendsburg, but spent several years lying at rest waiting to find out if a new owner had the financial means to pay for her costly face-lift. Eventually work began, but took eight years to complete.
Many people who come on board struggle to believe the history of the hull of this classic three-master. Concealed behind the brasswork and the wood panelling of the cabins stretch endless pipes and electric cables, which give this ship a standard of luxury and comfort belonging to the twentieth century. Since 1994, when she recommenced sailing, Europa has developed a reputation as a ship which really sails.
For more information on the Europa please CLICK HERE
SORLANDETSørlandet was formerly a schoolship for training young cadets, but is now owned and operated by a non profit foundation, controlled and partly funded by the Norwegian Department of Culture. She is the oldest of the three Norwegian Tall Ships; built in Kristiansand and launched in 1927. On her maiden voyage to Oslo in 1927, Sørlandet was inspected by HM King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav. One of her highlights was the cruise to the World Fair in Chicago in 1933.
Being the first Norwegian training ship to cross the Atlantic, she actually served as the Norwegian pavilion during the exhibition "A Century in Progress".
Sørlandet became damaged during World War II where she, among other things, served as an accommodation vessel for German submariners. She was restored and ready to sail in 1948, but it wasn’t until 1958 that she was equipped with an engine and propeller.
In 1974 she was sold and laid up for three years until 1977 when she was bought back to Kristiansand. From 1981 she has been owned by the non-profit foundation Stiftelsen Fullriggeren Sørlandet.
From 1980 to 1983, Sørlandet was the only Norwegian training ship still operating and at that time the open cruises for both sexes, all ages and nationalities started. She crossed the Atlantic four times in 1981, was used for a film shoot in New York and performed several cruises between Bermuda and Boston.
In 1986, she once again crossed the Atlantic to take part in the 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in New York.
In late summer of the years 1986-88 about 500 cadets from the Royal Norwegian Navy got their first life-at-sea experience, through three-week courses of sailing and training on board Sørlandet.
Towards Sørlandet's 70th Anniversary in 1997, she worked closely in co-operation with the Royal Norwegian Navy, Norwegian Shipowners Association and the local public Employment Office, doing six-week courses in sailing and general seamanship in order to strengthen the recruitment of seafarers.
For more information on the Sorlandet please CLICK HERE
 EYE OF THE WINDEye of the Wind, originally called Friedrich, was built in 1911 in Germany for the South American hide trade. In 1923, she was sold to Sweden and carried general cargo under the name Merry. Three years later her first engine was installed and gradually her rig was reduced and altered to a ketch, but after a fire in 1969 when her wheel house and poop deck were destroyed, her old iron hull was sold to square rigger enthusiasts who began rebuilding her.
During the 1970s she was fitted out as a brigantine in Faversham, Kent and circumnavigated the globe as her first voyage as the Eye of the Wind. She has since appeared in many films including Blue Lagoon, Savage Islands, Taipan and as the ill-fated Albatross in White Squall. Eye of the Wind raced in all five races of Tall Ships 2000.
In September 2001, the new owners successfully completed the biggest refit of Eye of the Wind since the original reconstruction in Faversham in 1974.
With no part of the ship left untouched, Eye of the Wind re-emerged with new accommodation for Voyage crew (each cabin with private bath and toilet), new sails, new decks, new main engine, new navigation equipment and conforming to the highest safety standards in the world.
For more information on the Eye of the Wind please CLICK HERE
KALIAKRA
Kaliakra trains future officers for the Bulgarian Navy and is the sistership to Iskra. She is based at Varna on the Black Sea, but often travels to Europe and America for the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races.
In 1992, Kaliakra was refitted, adding a fifth yardarm to the foremast.
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