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Fantome was a 679-ton staysail schooner.She was completed in 1927 by the Duke of Westminster.She was purchased by Windjammer Barefoot Cruises in 1969, and became the flagship of their fleet, offering cruises in the Caribbean and the Bay of Honduras.
SV Mandalay is a three-masted schooner measuring 163.75 ft (49.91 m) pp, [2] with a wrought iron hull. It was built as the private yacht Hussar (IV), and would later become the research vessel Vema, one of the world's most productive oceanographic research vessels.
The four-masted barque Moshulu. Moshulu was made famous by the books of Eric Newby.At the age of 18 he was apprenticed aboard the Moshulu, joining the ship in Belfast in 1938 and sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia with a load of ballast stone in 82 days, a good passage for a windjammer.
Yankee Clipper is a three masted sailing cruise ship that served for Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. She was originally built in Kiel, Germany as the Cressida, an armor plated private yacht. She was a prize in World War II. She was acquired by the Vanderbilts and was renamed Pioneer. In 1965, the ship was acquired by Windjammer Barefoot cruises.
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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea calls windjammer "a non-nautical name by which square-rigged sailing ships are sometimes known". [6] The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military calls windjammer "a merchant sailing ship". [7] The following languages have adopted "windjammer" as a loanword from English in reference to sailing ...
Timberwind is a two-masted wooden-hulled sailing vessel. She has a total length of 70 feet (21 m), a beam of 14 feet (4.3 m), and a draft of 10 feet (3.0 m). She has an oak frame, and is sheathed in yellow pine below the water line and oak above it.
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