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The schooner, Johann Smidt, was built in Amsterdam by the Cammenga Shipyard in 1974. She was launched as Eendracht, the first sail training ship for Holland’s Het Zeiland Zeeschip, and took part in many regattas, including previous Tall Ships’ Races and crossed the Atlantic. From the outset she was designed with young people in mind […]

Creoula is a four masted schooner which was launched in 1937 after a record building time of 62 working days. She has a reinforced bow to enable her to fish in the icy seas off Newfoundland and Greenland. Until her last fishing trip in 1973, Creoula had wooden topmasts, boom and gaffs. She had run […]

Dewaruci was built in 1952 by H C Stulcken & Sohn Hamburg, West Germany, and launched on 24 January 1953. She sailed to Indonesia with Indonesian naval officers and cadets. The ship has been used as a training ship in the Indonesian Naval Academy based in Surabaya. The mission of KRI Dewaruci is to: – […]

“Wooden, traditional gaff ketch, on the initiative of General Mariusz Zaruski, was built in Sweden for the money coming from contributions of members of the Maritime and Colonial League. After almost 4 years of arduous process of revitalization, on 30th October 2012, in the presence of President Bronisław Komorowski, the sail of STS General Zaruski […]

The ‘Oosterschelde’ is one of the very few truly historical ships left in the world. She was built in the Netherlands in 1917 at the order of the Rotterdam shipping company HAAS and is the last remaining representative of the large fleet of schooners that sailed under the Dutch flag at the beginning of the […]

Yacht Farurej is a mahogany yawl built in 1980 in Joseph Conrad’s Shipyard in Gdańsk for the Yacht Club ATOL in Warsaw, which became a branch of a Polish Navy Yacht Club. Farurej is named after Jan Farurej from Grabowo, Sulima coat of arms – famous 15th century knight, Spisz’s starost, Cracow’s stolnik, brother of Zawisza […]

THALASSA was originally built in 1980 in Harlingen, Holland, but after she sank in 1985 was bought by Arnold Hilkema and Jacob Jan Dam who totally rebuilt and refitted her. She was relaunched in 1995. 2004 was the first year she competed in The Tall Ships Races.

The Gorch Fock is a tall ship of the German Navy (Deutsche Marine). She is the second ship of that name and a sister ship of the Gorch Fock built in 1933. Both ships are named in honor of the German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pseudonym “Gorch Fock” and died in the […]

St.Iv is the longest serving sail training vessel in Estonia and has participated in The Tall Ships Races since 1993. In the following years, several podium places were brought home from regattas held in the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Baltic Sea. St. Iv, is an ocean-class yacht Conrad 1200 GT, built for […]

Ryvingen is a pilot boat built in 1918 for sail and engine. She was pilot boat number 4, and this is why she has the number 4 in her mainsail together with a red vertical stripe. The red stripe is the symbol for a pilot boat, so she can be easily recognized. She got her […]

Estonian Maritime Academy is one of the schools of Tallinn University of Technology and it is the only educational institution in Estonia that offers professional higher education and Master’s level education in the maritime field. We are located in the capital Tallinn but also have two centres in Saaremaa.

Sail Training yacht Asta, is a Morgan 54 (Marauder) class monohull sailboat with a Bermudan Sloop rig. Asta was constructed in 1971 for the German Naval Academy fleet. Her homeport is Flensburg, and she is owned by the German Navy. Designed and built by Charles Morgan, American sailboat racer and designer. He is best known […]

Navigator is a 16m Yawl built in Turku, Finland in 1947. She has participated in Tall Ships’ Races in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000. Her crew consists mostly of boy scouts and girl guides from FiSSc (Finnish scout district) with about 5500 members.

Op Stok 3 is a private vessel. The skipper sailed with his children in 2006 the TSR tot Lisboa and Antwerpen. Since 2021 the skipper – being in pension- reconnected with STI and sailed already 5 times the races. We are willing to take on board trainees of all european nationalities.