Berny's photos with the keyword: sailing

Ambassador was an United Kingdom tea clipper built in 1869 (dimensions: 53.5 x 9.54 x 5.82 m). She was a composite clipper, built with wooden planking over an iron skeleton and was W. Lund & Co's first fast tea clipper. William Walker built Ambassador at Lavender Dry Dock in London. Though considered a fast ship, Ambassador was said to be "very cranky and overmasted". Her first passage to the UK from Foochow came during the Tea Race of 1870 under Captain Duggan and took 115 days, a mediocre performance; that same year the fastest tea passage, also from Foochow, was made by the clipper Lahloo in just 98 days. Ambassador‍ '​s fastest passage between China and England was 108 days, in 1872. Ambassador has been beached in the Strait of Magellan at Estancia San Gregorio, Chile since 1899. The wooden planks were used to build houses of the Estancia, which is now a "wreck" too. In 1973 Chile declared her a historic monument. But if you compare this image made in 2000 and the same wreck in 2015 (PiP), you can imagine, that sooner than later it will disappear. See the small person to the right for size comparison. The brown "things" on the beach are rusty iron parts by the way. - scanned slide, Minolta X700 For more images click here: Ambassador

Port of Kissamos

Port of Kissamos - Crete

ARA Presidente Sarmiento is a museum ship in Argentina, originally built as a training ship for the Argentine Navy and named after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the seventh President of Argentina. She is considered to be the last intact cruising training ship from the 1890s. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

by Leon: www.ipernity.com/doc/2251804/50739218 scanned slide, Minolta X700

The western part of Oakland Bay Bridge, which is called "Willie L. Brown Jr. Bridge (African American major of SF 1996–2004", total length 8.32 km, 5 lanes, opened 1936. This part of the bridge is connecting San Francisco with Yerba Buena Island. The East Span collapsed during the Loma-Pietra-Earthquake in 1989. scanned slide, Minolta X700 The next series will be about Yosemite National Park.

St. George's - Grenada

For Star Flyer see next image. Eurodam is a cruise ship of the Holland America Line (Signature Class). Built 2007, 86273 tons, length 285 m, 11 passenger decks, 64000 kW power, 2104 passengers, 929 crew.

Star Flyer is a four masted barquentine built as a cruise ship, and operated by Star Clippers Ltd of Sweden. Built 1990, length 112 m, 170 passengers.

some sailing boats in the harbour of Rijeka, obviously

British fully ragged steel sailing ship 'SV Lord Lonsdale' was built 1889. It had 3 masts, a tonnage of 1756 grt and was (or is) 69.1 x 12 x 7.1 m tall. Lonsdale caught fire on 6.10.1909 being on voyage from Hamburg for Mazatlan (West Coast Mexico) in Port Stanley Harbour (Falkland Islands) and was beached to extinguish the fire. It had been loaded with coal. It had been hulked after the fire and then beached again in 1940/1942 as a wreck south of Punta Arenas.

I wish you all a happy weekend !! .........view from the north cape of peninsula Rhodopou - Crete