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Tall Ships Youth Trust, formerly the Sail Training Association, based in Portsmouth, is a charity registered with the Charity Commission. [ 1] It was founded in 1956 and is dedicated to the personal development of young people aged 12 to 25 through the crewing of ocean-going yachts. Thanks to this work with young people, Tall Ships Youth Trust ...
Stavros S Niarchos is a brig, that is a two masted vessel with square sails on both masts. She carries five yards on each mast (moving up: Course, Lower Topsail, Upper Topsail, Topgallant and Royal), and a total of 18 sails. In good conditions she has managed speeds of just over 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph). Illuminated "Stavros S Niarchos" in ...
In 2000, Sir Winston Churchill was replaced in service by Prince William and sold by her owners, the Tall Ships Youth Trust. [9] Her last voyage for the Tall Ships Youth Trust ended on 2 December 2000 at Portsmouth. [10] Sir Winston Churchill was sold to a company based in the Isle of Man. Initially she was used as a sail training ship, with a ...
The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) was a membership network of over 200 voluntary and community organisations, as well as local and regional networks, that work with and for young people across England. The organisation closed in 2016. For 80 years, NCVYS acted as an independent voice of the voluntary and community youth ...
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is an American private, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (IABBB) in Arlington, Virginia.
Tall ship Vespucci, named after the explorer who gave his name to America, is a navy boat that entered service in 1931. ... The Amerigo Vespucci, which Italians call the world's most beautiful ...
Prince William alongside in Fredrikstad at the end of the Tall Ships' Race 2005. PNS Rah Naward is a sail training ship of the Pakistan Navy. She was commissioned in 2001 as Prince William for the Tall Ships Youth Trust and sold in 2010 to the Pakistan Navy and renamed Rah Naward ("Swift Mover"). Rah Naward has the callsign ARNR and the IMO ...
September 15, 2024 at 5:30 AM. A new review of previous research determines if cell phone radiation causes brain cancer. The review concludes that radiation from cell phones is not likely to ...