Sailing Ship - Blog Posts
Lego MOC ship
French Frigate "Saint Germain" - PART 1
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You may enjoy the ship’s short video on my YouTube with a beautiful music of ‘violin concerto’ by Jean Marie Leclair.
Expansive (New York)
Also in Portsmouth harbour in August 2012, also not powered by aircraft engines: the Italian Navy's training ship Amerigo Vespucci.
As explained in Oceanliner Designs' video on the ill-fated Kobenhavn, even after steam had become the prime mover of the world's warships, navies still valued sailors who could operate a fully-rigged sailing ship. Hence training vessels were still built with sail in mind, and are still in use in that capacity today, such as France's Belem, built in 1896, which recently carried the Olympic torch from Greece to Marseille, and Italy's Amerigo Vespucci, built in 1930, which also carried the Olympic torch for the Rome games in 1960, and is basically on a perpetual world tour.
Funnels are clearly visible on this side view, as, like most sailing ships today, other engines are provided, at least for safety when the wind cannot be used. In fact, the Amerigo Vespucci's Diesel engines received a serious upgrade not long after these photos were taken in 2012.
Speaking of 2012, that was the year the replica of the Bounty sank in a hurricane. It too was a sailing ship with Diesel back-ups, and Brick Immortar has a full video on the incident, which includes one of the daftest quotes I have ever heard - I struggle to believe the narrators could say it with a straight face -, with the captain claiming, in the context of sailing near a hurricane, that "a ship is safer at sea than in port."