Keith and I spent a day at the Tall Ships festival this week. Our first stop was at The Royal Arsenal at Woolwich where a number of visiting ships were berthed.
Artemis built in 1926 as a whaler. Later converted to a freighter and now used as a floating hotel cruising the Baltic.
Replica of The Nao Victoria which circumnavigated the world in 1519-1522
Tolkien was built as a diesel powered tug operating out of Rostock. In 1995 she was in Rotterdam when the company who owned her went bankrupt. She was bought by a private individual who removed her diesel engines and converted her into a top-sail schooner. She operates cruises in the Baltic and the North Sea
TS Royalist belongs to the Sea Cadets and is used for training.
When the ships leave Greenwich on Sunday, they will sail to Portugal before crossing the Atlantic to Canada.
