tall ship
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In the background you can see the Olympic flame arriving on a three-mast tall ship into the French port of Marseille, having sailed from Greece, and the high-rolling waves representing surfing events in Tahiti.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024
Memoir ‘All Hands on Deck’ recalls the voyage of a tall ship from Rhode Island to San Diego, where it became the HMS Surprise in the movie ‘Master and Commander.’
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2023
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 organization also offers separate tours of a Mayflower II reproduction tall ship.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
“What are ye, bearers of armor, dressed in mail-coats, that have thus come riding your tall ship over the sea- road, winter-cold ocean, here to Daneland?”
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
