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 steam-powered tugboats would then race out to meet the tall ship, and the first one to reach the ship would get the coveted job of bringing it into port.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021

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