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

Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023

The organization also offers separate tours of a Mayflower II reproduction tall ship.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

The famous landmark was scheduled to open this afternoon to allow a large wooden tall ship through, but it appears to have become jammed in place.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 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