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Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships. It is sorted by overall length.
She was the only seven-masted schooner, the only seven-masted sailing ship in modern times (see Zheng He's treasure ships), the largest schooner, and the largest pure sailing vessel, in terms of tonnage, ever built. Larger sailing vessels with auxiliary engines for propulsion were the British Great Eastern (1866), the French France II (1911 ...
Pioneering Spirit is the largest twin-hulled vessel ever built as well as, at 124 metres (407 ft), the widest ship in the world. Photo is prior to renaming of vessel. [70] [71] Q-Max (14 ships) LNG carrier: 345 m (1,132 ft) 128,900 DWT: 163,922 GT: 2008– In service [72] USS Enterprise: Aircraft carrier: 342 m (1,122 ft) 1961–2013 Retired
The world's largest cruise ship, complete with 20 decks and six waterslides, is getting ready to set sail for the first time. Royal Caribbean's "Icon of the Seas" is in Port Miami getting ready ...
Largest Wooden hulled sailing yacht. [1] Lamima: 65.20 m (214 ft) Italthai Industrial Group: Marcelo Penna: 2014: 2-mast auxiliary gaff wooden pinisi, hull built in Indonesia Aquarius II: 65.00 m (213 ft) Royal Huisman: Dykstra Naval Architects: 2024: 2-mast (ketch rig) aluminium Adix: 64.85 m (213 ft) Astilleros de Mallorca: Arthur Holgate ...
Great Republic, as originally built in 1853. Designed by naval architect and shipbuilder Donald McKay as a four-deck four-masted medium clipper barque, Great Republic—at 4,555 tons registry [4] —was intended to be the most profitable wooden sailing ship ever to ply the Australian gold rush and southern oceans merchant trade.
She was the largest United States sailing warship ever built, the equivalent of a first-rate of the British Royal Navy. Authorized in 1816 and launched in 1837, her only cruise was a single trip from Delaware Bay through Chesapeake Bay to the Norfolk Navy Yard. The ship became a receiving ship, and during the American Civil War was destroyed.
Sovereign of the Seas was the fastest and longest ship yet built when she was launched in New York. She was designed and built by Donald Mackay for her owners Funke & Meinke of New York. She sailed from New York to San Francisco on her maiden voyage in 103 days, and achieved the fastest ever recorded speed of a sailing vessel at 22 knots ...