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Recent Examples of tall ship
The 295-foot training vessel — widely referred to as America’s tall ship — is scheduled to tie up at the B Street Pier, 1140 North Harbor Drive, San Diego.
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Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Take to the water aboard the tall ship Alliance II for a scenic sail along the York River with Yorktown Sailing Charters.
—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 24 July 2025
Beyond the tall ships, SAIL250 activities will feature local festivals, aviation demonstrations, educational activities and an air show.
—Irit Skulnik, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025
The other tall ships are used as ambassadors by Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
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Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Take to the water aboard the tall ship Alliance II for a scenic sail along the York River with Yorktown Sailing Charters.
—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 24 July 2025
Beyond the tall ships, SAIL250 activities will feature local festivals, aviation demonstrations, educational activities and an air show.
—Irit Skulnik, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025
The other tall ships are used as ambassadors by Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tall ship
Noun
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Maritime evidence includes a merchant ship, stone anchors, and what officials described as a harbour crane, clustered near a 125-metre dock that the antiquities ministry said served as a harbour for small boats until the Byzantine period.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Aug. 2025
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The Lisbon Maru — a Japanese merchant ship covertly carrying around 1,800 British POWs in the Far East — is torpedoed by mistake off the coast of China’s Dongji Island by an American submarine, unaware of the lives hidden below deck.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
28 July 2025
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Now for other people whose crepe myrtles look like yours, black bark and white specks are classic signs of crepe myrtle scales.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
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Yohimbine, derived from plant roots or tree bark, is sometimes marketed as an energy- or libido-booster.—
Sam Manzella,
Flow Space,
10 Sep. 2025
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In July, Aniston was spotted enjoying a yacht trip off the coast of Mallorca — where she was joined by friends including Jason Bateman and his wife Amanda Anka — and Curtis was with her for the vacation.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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Fires on yachts have been in the news.—
Rachel Ingram,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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In another sign that Wisconsin maritime historians are in a golden period of discovery, a wooden schooner hidden beneath the depths of Lake Michigan for nearly 140 years has been found — with citizen scientists on board to share the excitement.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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In 1921, the schooner Rosa Belle left Milwaukee heading for Chicago with 11 passengers.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Set free sailboats in Coconut Grove.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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It’s sort of based on a sailboat.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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M’Benga makes the difficult decision to send Gamble, or whatever, to the brig.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2025
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Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
14 Jan. 2025
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On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Dec. 2024
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Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel.—
Jennifer Larino,
NOLA.com,
6 Mar. 2018
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As part of its Indo-Pacific deployment, the British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales transited from the Pacific off Japan's eastern coast to the Sea of Japan off the country's western coast over the weekend, deploying fighter jets for a drill with Japanese aircraft.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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For his part, Law, who will premiere his own film this week, provided an excellently convincing argument in the fiery northern Mediterranean man-fashion white-dinner-jacket debate that a double-breasted’s peaked lapels should each properly be the dimension of an aircraft carrier deck.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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