Version 2008-01-12
This website is being developed as a comprehensive annotated global listing of all replica ships.
A replica vessel is one defined as a full-size authentic reproduction of a documented original.
In some cases small scale and non-authentic maritime replicas are listed for historical or academic reasons. The site is intended a a gateway to the official ship websites, but these are often transient. All dimensions are approximate.
Due to the complexity of the field, all Viking ship replicas are treated in my separate A to Z list: Viking Ship Replicas.
Please send any comments, corrections and contributions to the Editor.
A replica of the Gedesby ship from the end of the 13th century excavated in south Falster in 1991.
The ship was named Agnete - after an old Danish folksong about Agnete and the Merman.
Agnete
A replica of a galley (Gaelic: birlinn) Aileach is a forty foot open clinker built wooden boat, the only replica of a Scottish Highland galley ever built. She is owned by the Lord of the Isles Trust, a charitable trust set up to promote knowledge of the maritime history of the Celtic revival period in Scotland. This dates from 1188 when Somerled won a great sea battle off the coast of Islay with his fleet of birlinns, marking the beginning of the decline of Viking power in the Hebrides. Somerled's descendants and other clans built hundreds of birlinns and, with them, ruled the island kingdom by sea. The coast is mountainous and indented with long sea lochs, making any transport by land very difficult. Moving people and cargo by sea was easy and those with the best galley technology could control transport and wield military power. This period lasted until until 1495 when the dominance of the Lords of the Isles was broken by the Scottish crown. The birlinn as a symbol of power survived much longer and is still used in the arms of many clans and many towns in the Highlands (Oban for instance).
The Aileach is a beautiful ship with a dramatic squaresail and 16 graceful oars and she is actively used as a sailing and training vessel. She is based in Loch Leven near Glencoe at the Isles of Glencoe Hotel, from where she makes voyages around the Hebridean Islands. In the seven years since she was built she has had an active life. The trust is run by experienced sailors and oarsmen - mainly from the MacDonald clan - who have taken her far and wide in the Hebrides and even to the Faroe Islands. Her maiden voyage was from West Port, Co Mayo to Stornoway, capital of the Outer Isles.
Aileach
A replica of the perahu which had been built by shipwrights from the Kei Islands, used by Alfred Russell Wallace, the great 19th century traveller and naturalist, for his explorations in eastern Indonesia.
When travel historian and adventurer Tim Severin set out to sail in the wake of Alfred Russel Wallace, he ordered a perahu from Warbal, a small off-lier of the Kei Islands. Nick Burningham was invited to oversee the fitting out, provide a 19th century rig, and run sailing trials.
Alfred Russel Wallace
Replica number one of the yacht America which won the America's cup for the NYYC in 1851.
America
Second replica of the yacht which won the America's cup for the NYYC in 1851. Commissioned by Ray Giovannoni, a Virginia businessman as a historically accurate replica of the schooner America (destroyed 1942) at a cost of $5 million. More authentic than America on deck, her most controversial feature is a modern fin keel, which reportedly makes her a handful in strong winds even without her 6,400 sq. ft. of sail.
America USA
A replica of the 19th century slave schooner Amistad is being built in Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. This slaver became famous in 1839 after its human cargo staged a successful revolt, took over the ship, were captured and tried in an American court.
Amistad
Authentically constructed replica of the 18th century Oostindievaarder Amsterdam wrecked in 1749 off the English coast.
Amsterdam
A 2/5ths scale replica of Endeavour.
Our authentic replica of HM Endeavour - which was sailed by Captain James Cook during his scientific expedition of 1768 - has been traditionally built by craftsmen and stands in the water some 40% of the ships original size. The 'bark' construction of steamed larch planks fastened to a solid oak frame is complemented with traditional masts and rigging, which makes the ship quite unique!Bark Endeavour Whitby
Authentic reconstruction of the VOC merchantman Batavia from 1628.
Batavia
A full scale replica of a Lake Ontario schooner from the War of 1812.
H.M.S. Bee is a full-scale replica of her namesake and has also received an historic warrant reinstating her as an honourary British Navy ship. At 79' H.M.S. Bee is representative of one of the original supply schooners (Bee, Mosquito, and Wasp) that were stationed at the Penetanguishene Naval Establishment from 1817 to 1831. The original Bee was built in Nottawasaga and would have ferried goods and men between this depot and Penetanguishene with occassional trips to the Northwest. The replica H.M.S. Bee employs modern and traditional materials but her appearance also closely matches that of the original ship. Frames are built of fir, stanchions are oak, and deck beams and spars are pine. The frames are covered with a fiberglass laminate structure and the outside layer has the appearance of traditional planking. Standing and running rigging employs Roblon, natural rope, and steel cable with manila surround. She flies a total of six sails consisting of main, foresail, jib, flying jib, gaff topsail, and staysail. H.M.S. Bee carries up-to-date navigation and safety equipment.
Bluenose II is an authentic replica of the fishing schooner Bluenose, winner of the International Fishermen's Trophy in the 1920s. (Bluenose was designed by William J. Rou and built by Smith and Rhuland and launched in Lunenburg N.S. on 26 March 1921; sunk Haiti, 1946.) The ship is featured on the Canadian 10 cent coin. Bluenose II was built in 1963 for the brewing firm of Oland and Sons to help promote their new product, Schooner Beer. In 1971, the Oland family sold Bluenose II to the province of Nova Scotia for the amount of one dollar.
Bluenose II
"H.M.S." Bounty, a replica of the famous 18th century frigate, was commissioned by MGM studios construction in 1960 for Mutiny on the Bounty with
Marlon Brando. The Tall Ship Bounty Foundation acquired the ship as a donation from its previous owner, Ted Turner, in 1993.
Bounty
"H.M.S." Bounty, a replica of the famous 18th century frigate commanded by Capt Bligh, was commissioned for Mutiny on the Bounty with Mel Gibson.
Bounty
The Californian is a full-scale re-creation of the 1848-vintage Revenue Marine Service Cutter C.W. Lawrence, one of the fastest and grandest ships in the
evolution of the United States Revenue Marine Service, and the first to be assigned to the California coast. "The Californian exemplifies the highest level of speed and elegance achieved during the Revenue Marine
era."
Californian
A replica of a French bisquine de cancale, an oyster dredger, from Cancale, Brittany.
La Cancalaise
A replica of an early 19th c Hudson River sloop.
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A sea-going replica of USS Constitution built for the filming of James Cruze's film Old Ironsides (1926) with assistance from the US Navy Department.
Current status unknown.
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De Delft is the world's largest wooden replica ship.
De Delft website
A project to build a replica of "Ship 1" of the two Lake Nemi ships.
These two ships, sometimes referred to as houseboats, are conjectured to have been constructed for Emperor Caligula (37-41 AD) and relate to ceremonies for the Egyptian Isis cult or the cult of Diana Nemorensis. Known from accounts by Classical authors, they were finally discovered after a project to drain Lake Nemi, and were excavated by Guido Ucelli in 1929-1932. The excavation is reported in: Le Nave di Nemi by Guido Ucelli (Rome, 1950).
A purpose built ship hall in reinforced concrete was constructed to house the remains. However, the ships were destroyed by a fire started by Nazi troops in 1944-05-31. Surviving remnants from the excavations are now displayed in the Museo Nazionale Romano at the Palazzo Massimo in Rome. The magnificent ship hall survives today -- Museo delle Navi Romane, Nemi.
Il Museo, parzialmente riaperto nel 1989, fu fondato nel 1935 per ospitare gli scafi delle due Navi Romane che nell'etą imperiale, un Cesare Augusto Germanico, forse Caligola o Claudio, fece costruire sul lago, per celebrarvi riti e feste in onore di Diana, due gigantesche navi ricche di sovrastrutture murarie ed impreziosite di bronzi, marmi ed altri materiali. Le due navi anche se affondate, nel tempo continuarono dal fondo del lago a polarizzare con la loro storia leggendaria l'attenzione degli studiosi che invano, nel corso dei secoli, ne tentarono il recupero. Molti tentativi furono effettuati intorno al 1446 ad opera di L. Battista Alberti, ma solo nel 1928-31 con un parziale ed artificiale prosciugamento delle acque, gli scafi ben conservati, furono tirati a secco e alloggiati in due grandi edifici adibiti a Museo.
Purtroppo, il rarissimo cimelio, documento unico al mondo della insospettata perfezione tecnica navale romana, veniva distrutto dagli eventi bellici il 31 maggio del 1944, forse ad opera delle truppe tedesche in ritirata. Ciononostante il Museo delle Navi Romane č ancora di estremo interesse, per la documentazione della tecnica navale romana e per i numerosi pezzi archeologici che conserva. Tra questi i notissimi bronzi di rivestimento delle travi, con teste di leone, di lupo, di pantera, di medusa e con mani apotropaiche che dovevano tenere lontani gli spiriti maligni; molte ermette bifronti, una transenna bronzea, terrecotte ornamentali. Delle navi sono esposti due fedeli modelli in scala a un quinto del vero e molti elementi salvati dall'incendio: un ancora di ferro a ceppo mobile che porta inciso il peso (417Kg), del tipo che la Marina inglese chiama "dell'Ammiragliato"; un grande rubinetto di bronzo, pompe, piattaforme girevoli, ruote dentate, un timone, ecc. Il museo comprende anche una sezione documentaria sulla tecnica navale romana e sulle organizzazioni marinare.
A replica of Discovery
Discovery
Dunbrody is a 458 tonne three-masted barque, 176 feet (53.7 metres) long. Her hull length is 120 ft. (36.6 m), she has a beam of 28 ft (8.5 m), a draft of 11.5 ft (3.5 m) and has a sail area of 10,100 square ft. (c. 940 sq. m.).
The present ship is a reconstruction of the original Dunbrody, built in Quebec in 1845 by Thomas Hamilton Oliver, an Irish emigrant from Co. Derry. She took less than six months to build under the careful supervision of John Baldwin, who captained her from 1845 to March 1848. The merchant Graves family from New Ross commissioned her. They commissioned eight such ships to carry cargo from America and Canada.
Dunbrody was primarily a cargo vessel and carried timber from Canada, cotton from the southern states of the USA and guano from Peru. The ship was fitted out with bunks and facilities for passengers desperate to escape the harrowing conditions at home. From 1845 to 1851, between April and September, she carried passengers on her outward journeys to Canada and the USA. She usually carried 176 people but on one crossing, at the height of the Famine in 1847, she carried 313.
Many of the passengers were the evicted tenants of Lord Fitzwilliam's Wicklow estates and Viscount de Vesci's Portlaoise estates. She carried two classes of passenger - the cabin passenger who paid between £5 and £8 and the steerage passenger who paid between £3 15s 0p and £4. This fare was at least the equivalent of two months income for a tenant farmer in the 1840's. The cabin passengers (usually Protestant gentry) had food and services provided but the steerage passengers had to cook and fend for themselves.
1847 was the worst year of the Famine. In the first open months of the Spring 40 ships were waiting to disembark and the quarantine station at Grosse ėle in Canada had more than 1,100 patients suffering in terrible conditions. In May 1847, Captain Baldwin finally landed his passengers at Grosse ėle after a very long passage. In a letter addressed to William Graves, he reported "the Dunbrody was detained in quarantine for five days because there were too many ships queuing in the St. Lawrence River. Doctor Douglas is nearly singled-handedÉ.everyday, dozens of corpses are thrown overboard from many shipsÉ.I have heard that some of them have no fresh water left and the passengers and crew have to drink the water from the river. God help them!"
Although the Dunbrody was detained at Grosse ėle on a number of occasions, her onboard mortality rate was practically non-existent. This was, without doubt, due to her good and humane captains, Captain Baldwin and his successor, Captain John W. Williams. Emigrants writing back home to Ireland praised their dedication to their crew and passengers more than once. Thanks to a very well organised overseas mail system, the Captains were also able to keep in regular contact with William Graves.
Dunbrody remained in the Graves family ownership for 24 years. She was sold in1869 and became a British registered ship. In 1874, en route to Quebec from Cardiff, Dunbrody's captain chose not to wait for a pilot to assist him in navigating the St. Lawrence. He paid for this when he ran aground. She was fortunate, however, to be bought by a salvage company, repaired and sold on. Unfortunately, in 1875, she took her second and fatal grounding. Sailing home to Liverpool with a full timber cargo worth £12,500, a fierce gale blew up and drove her dangerously off her usual route towards the shores of Labrador. Though the exact details are not known, it is assumed that if she grounded fully laden with a timber cargo, her aging hull would have been broken up beyond economic repair.
A replica of Dufyken which made the first recorded visit to Australia in 1606.
Duyfken
An authentic replica of H.M. Bark Endeavour, commanded by Lt. James Cook on his first Australian voyage 1768 -- 1771.
Endeavour -- official website
See also "Bark Endeavour" above.
The schooner Enterprize is a replica of the ship that brought the first settlers to Melbourne. The original ship was built in Hobart in 1829. On 15 August 1835, Enterprize entered the Yarra River, and moored at the foot of the present day William Street. On the 30 August 1835 the settlers disembarked to build their store and clear land to grow vegetables. Settlement at Melbourne had begun. The replica Enterprize was built so that a significant part of MelbourneÕs history would be preserved and accessible to the people of Victoria.
Enterprize -- official website
The schooner Fame of Salem is an authentic full-size replica of a privateer from the War of 1812.
The original Fame, built in Gloucester and owned in Salem, was a fast 'Chebacco' fishing schooner that was reborn as a privateer when war broke out in the summer of 1812. She took at least 19 prizes before being wrecked in the Bay of Fundy in March of 1814.Fame of Salem
A replica of an 18th c colonial brigantine. Sparred Length 72 feet, length over all 55 feet, length at the water line 49 feet, draft 7 feet, beam 18 feet
and rig height 55 feet. Formidable is rigged as a brigantine. Her main mast the spanker and her foremast carries square sails fore tops'l , and fore course, as well as several jibs and stays'ls.
Formidable
An ongoing French replica project.
The new Tall Ship will be constructed precisely according to the measurements of the Five-Masted Ship "FRANCE II", constructed in Bordeaux in 1911 by the shipbuilders of Gironde. This ship ran around in New Caledonia in 1922, and was destroyed by American bombers in 1944.
France II
The replica ship Friendship is a reconstruction of a 171-foot three-masted East Indiaman built in Salem in 1797. She is the largest wooden, Coast Guard certified, sailing vessel to be built in New England in more than a century.
A replica of a 17th century Genoese galley.
Galea Genovese
A replica of Godspeed
Godspeed photo
An authentic replica of Sir Francis Drake's flagship in which he circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1580. based on all available historical data, shipbuilding rules of the period and pictorial representations.
The Golden Hinde is an exact scale, 120 foot fully operational reconstruction of Sir Francis Drake's square rigged galleon which was the first ship to sail around the world between 1577 and 1580. There never were any plans for the original Golden Hind. In those days ships were built without plans, by eye and rule of thumb. The present Golden Hinde (spelled the way used by Drake) is a serious reconstruction of Drake's ship, based on all available historical data, shipbuilding rules of the period and pictorial representations. The Golden Hinde was built between 1971-73 at the J. Hinks & Son Shipyard in Appledore, Devon, England as a fully working 'museum' ship for educational purposes for the Crowley Maritime Corporation of San Francisco. The ship contains five levels of deck including the gun deck and 22 working replica cannons. Shipbuilding methods and materials of the period were followed in most respects and the ship has many artifacts of the period on board. This real sailing galleon has made a circumnavigation of the world, has visited over 300 ports worldwide touring Europe and North America and sailed over 140,000 miles. Many millions of visitors have explored her five decks and experienced the feel, noises and smells of a working Elizabethan galleon, complete with a crew dressed in period clothes like those worn by 16th century sailors. After opening her gangplank to the public in several English ports, including London, the Golden Hinde set sail in 1974 for San Francisco, her intended permanent port. Drake had sailed past the Bay of San Francisco in 1579 and anchored just north of it. When the number of visitors began to fall after a few years the owners chartered the galleon for the filming in Japan of the television series Shogun, in which she played the role of Erasmus. She sailed to Japan via Hawaii in 1979. After filming she sailed back to England via Hong Kong and the Mediterranean. From 1980 to 1985 she visited a large number of British ports before going to the West Indies, after which she went to Vancouver for Expo '86'. Until July 1990 she visited 60 US West Coast ports before sailing to the US East Coast then back to England where she can again be found in London. She is now the Golden Hinde Sailing Museum at Saint Mary Overie Dock berthed in Bankside between London Bridge and Shakespear's Globe and beside Southwark Cathedral. She is open daily for school groups, guided tours, private & corporate events, family gatherings and even Pirate Parties.Golden Hinde
Authentic reproduction of the original East Indiaman "Götheborg" built at the ship yard Terra Nova in Stockholm in 1738. One of the fleet of the Swedish East India Company (Svenska Ostindiska Companiet - SOIC), she was wrecked off Göteborg in 1745.
Götheborg
The Grand Turk is a replica of an 18-century Man of War and was launched in Marmaris, Turkey on 12 August 1997. During the building more than 250 cubic metres of timber were used, employing the skills of 60 local craftsmen and 30 specialist shipwrights, riggers and engineers from the UK.
The Grand Turk starred in the series of Hornblower as the British ship 'Indefatigable' and the French ship 'Papillon'. This dual role was achieved by painting one side red to represent 'Papillon' and the other side yellow to represent 'Indefatigable'.
Grand Turk
A scientifically exact reproduction of a cog sunk in Bremen around 1380 and excavated in 1962.
Hansekogge
A replica of a 19th-century Indonesian perahu paduwakang. The ship
sucessfully replicated traditional voyages from Makassar in Indonesia to
Australia.
Hati Marege
A replica of "Hector", a Dutch "flute" which bought the first Scottish settlers to Nova Scotia in 1773. "Scotia Trawlers of Lunenberg, who have had extensive experience in building replicas of wooden vessels, have completed phase one and two of the reconstruction. The marine architects for this project are J.B. McGuire Marine Associates Ltd. , of Pictou. This firm has done extensive research into the history of the ship Hector, and has determined it to be a three masted sailing ship, of 200 tons berthen whose country of origin was Holland."
Hector
Helga Holm is a full scale replica of a medieval long ship, found at the
excavations on Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm in 1979-80. Helga Holm
requires a crew of 15-25 people.
Helga Holm
An authentic replica of a French frigate of 1780 that carried Marquis de La Fayette to America. Under construction in Rochefort since 1998. The boatyard is open to visitors.
Hermione
Hsu Fu is a giant bamboo raft replica built for Tim Severin's "China Voyage" across the Pacific from China to America. Nick Burningham supervised the construction of Hsu Fu at the village of Sam Son, in Thanh Hoa, northern Vietnam, where large sailing rafts were traditionally constructed for fishing.
Hsu Fu
Replica of an ancient Greek galley. Designed for 96 oarsmen.
Ivlia at Nautical Park
She is built according to the oldest existing shipdrawings in Finland (from 1755), made by the famous Swedish naval architect Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1720-1808).
Jacobstads Wapen
A replica of The Jeanie Johnston (1847-58) built in Quebec in 1847 one of the most famous of the Irish emigrant vessels. Designs for the Jeanie Johnston were based on a detailed description and survey of the original ship which has survived at Greenwich. Constructed as a mix of traditional craftsmanship and modern engineering. Used as a Class A sail training vessel, and fitted out as an authentic 19th century emigrant vessel.
Jeanie Johnston
A replica of a 17th century Dutch three masted warship.
"More than 350 years after she first landed on March 29, 1638 in what was to become Delaware in the United States of America, the Tall Ship Kalmar Nyckel has been recreated and sails again! Her importance to the history of Sweden and the United States is certain. Kalmar Nyckel, a Swedish-owned, Dutch-built three-masted armed pinnace (warship), brought the first permanent European settlers to the Delaware Valley, sailing from Goteborg, Sweden in November of 1637. Carrying 24 settlers from four countries -- Sweden, Finland, Holland, and Germany -- she landed on the banks of the Christina River, a tributary of the mighty Delaware River. The site became known as "The Rocks," a site which can be visited today at Fort Christina Park off Wilmington's East 7th Street. The 24 European settlers were joined by a black freedman from the Caribbean, Anthoni, the Black Swede." These 25 men from different countries, speaking different languages and blending different cultures, founded Fort Christina and built the first log cabins in America -- a typical Finnish form of building. When the Kalmar Nyckel returned two years later with women and children, all 25 settlers were alive and well! The Kalmar Nyckel made four documented round-trip crossings of the Atlantic, more than any other "settlers' ship" of the era. The original ship was lost in the late 1600s. In 1986 a group of committed citizens established the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation to design, build and launch a replica of the Kalmar Nyckel at a shipyard adjacent to the original landing site. The new Kalmar Nyckel was constructed there and was launched on September 28, 1997 before thousands of cheering witnesses. She was commissioned on May 9, 1998. Today the Kalmar Nyckel serves as Delaware's sea-going Ambassador of Good Will. A focal point for tourism and historical education, she is a fully functional sail training vessel and has represented Delaware at festivals from Virginia to New York."Kalmar Nyckel
A replica of a mediaeval cog
Kamper Kogge
An authentic replica of a 17th century Lake Geneva galley.
La Liberte
Sometime around 1750, a 90-ton trading vessel, the Washington, was built on Essex River, Massachusetts. Some 20 years later she was renamed Lady
Washington. She plied the Pacific, rounding Cape horn to trade on the western coast of North America and crossing the Pacific to trade with China. A group of
Washington's maritime history buffs in the 1980s organized the construction of a replica of this historic ship in time for Washington State's centennial
celebrations.
Lady Washington
Replica of 1812 Maryland privateer.
Lynx website
Roman warship in Mainz, Germany. The original was found in 1981-85 in the city's old harbour, dated to late 3rd and 4th centuries AD. This is a 20 m long full-scale reconstruction.
Mainz Roman Warship
The Matthew was John Cabot's ship which brought English colonists to the new world in 1497. In 1997, for the 500 year anniversary of the voyage, an 85 tonne replica
was built and a modern crew sailed it across the Atlantic.
See "Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of America" by Peter Firstbrook
Matthew of Bristol
Architect William A. Baker began developing plans of the ship for Plimoth Plantation in 1951. In 1955, the Plantation was approached by Warwick Charlton of Project Mayflower, Ltd., an English group which wanted to build a reproduction of the Mayflower and sail it to America in recognition of the two nationsÕ historic ties. Plimoth Plantation allowed Project Mayflower to use the Baker plans, and agreed to care for the vessel after she arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Construction began at the J. W. & A. Upham shipyard in Brixham, (Devon) England on July 4, 1955. Great care was taken to use historically accurate materials such as English oak timbers, linen canvas sails, and true hemp rope. In 1957, Mayflower II sailed across the Atlantic under the command of Captain Alan Villiers and a hand-picked crew, arriving at Plymouth on June 13 after a 55-day voyage. Mayflower II was opened to the public at the State Pier in Plymouth the following year.
Mayflower
Replica of a Phoenician trading vessel, under construction in Odessa. Named after the Phoenician god of navigation, Melcart.
"Melcart" was constructed to study the trade routes of the Phoenician. In July 2000 the vessel was invited to take part in the marine festival "Brest 2000" in Brest (France). After the presentation of the vessel in Brest the vessel's crew intends to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Cadiz (Spain) to French Guiana via the Isl. Madeira, the Canary Isl. and the Cape Verde Isl.
During the voyage the vessel's crew will take part in some scientific programs studying historical, geographical and biological aspects of prolonged stay at sea. Transatlantic voyages of the Phoenician are a vexed question in the History. To prove the possibility of such voyages we intend to make navigation by Phoenician trade routes. We hope that the voyage of "Melcart" can be a starting-point for more careful studying this historical aspect.
Melcart at Nautical Park
Reconstruction of the US Brig Niagara, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship in the battle of Lake Erie
US Brig Niagara
A replica of the portuguese vessel Nina used by Columbus on his three American voyages. Used in the film "1492" directed by Ridley Scott and starring Gerard Depardieu.
La Niña
A replica of Henry Hudson's exploration vessel, built for the Hudson's Bay Company to commemorate it's 300th anniversary.
The original Nonsuch was an ex-navy vessel, purchased at a price of 290 pounds, and fitted out for an expedition to what is now Hudson's Bay to prove
the viability of the fur trade.
She departed from Gravesend, England on June 3rd, 1668; arrived at the southern
end of James Bay on September 29th, 1668; and returned to London,
England, on October 11th, 1669. Her voyage, though financially unsuccessful, proved the viability of the fur trade, and led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company, on the 2nd of May, 1670.
The replica launched in 1968 was made to be as authentic as possible. It was built with 17th century techniques and very little modern equipment. It toured England, The St. Lawrence Seaway, The Great Lakes, and Pacific Canada, from 1968 to 1972.
Nonsuch
Replica of a medieval Mediterranean trade vessel.
Odessa at Nautical Park
Olympias is a reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme of the 5th and 4th centuries BC, built in Greece to a design worked out by John Coates, a naval architect, taking into consideration ancient evidence researched by John Morrison, former President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Olympias was commissioned into the Hellenic Navy in 1987. She is manned by 170 oarsmen, 85 a side, arranged in three tiers, Thranites at the top, Zygians in the middle, and Thalamians at the bottom. A 15 m full size section had previously been constructed by Coventry Boatbuilders
Olympias
A replica of Pierre Le Moyne d'IbervilleÕs 1697 flagship "Plican". The ship is grounded awaiting sale and repair.
Plican
Full Scale Replica of a c 1770 Topsail Schooner. "It was Dennis Holland's life
dream to build an accurate replica from the period when America
fought for independence and world recognition. Armed with talent,
determination, little money and plans he purchased from the
Smithsonian Institute he laid the keel in his yard on May 2, 1970.
Thirteen years later this fast privateer was launched and 210 years
in the future her hull again sails the ocean."
Pilgrim of Newport
A replica of replica of a 19th century Potomac River Dory Boat, a shallow-draft work boat once prevalent on the Potomac River. Potomac is now used as the main vessel for the Foundation's marine environmental science program.
Potomac
A replica of a Baltimore Clipper topsail schooner, based on the design of Chasseur c1800. The first Pride of Baltimore built in 1977 sank in a storm in 1986.
Pride of Baltimore II
A replica of Providence, John Paul Jones's first command.
Providence
A replica of an 8th-century Indonesian ship, designed by Nick Burningham and built under his supervision by traditional Indonesian shipwrights in 2003. She sailed successfully on a recently-completed voyage reconstructing (pre-)historical voyages to Madagascar and West Africa. The ship is bound for a
museum in Indonesia.
Raksa Samudera
The J-Boat Ranger was designed by Sparkman & Stephens, Inc. and
Starling Burgess and built by Bath Iron Works for Harold (Mike) S.
Vanderbilt and the New York Yacht Club for the 1937 America's Cup
defense. The yacht was destroyed in 1941. The new Ranger will join the exisiting J-class boats Endeavor, Shamrock and Velsheda. The replica based on plans retained by Sparkman & Stephens will maintain the original hull lines, sail plan and deck layout, but be fitted with modern machinery below deck including an engine, generator, watermaker and retractable bow
thruster.
Ranger
A replica of Rattlesnake, 20-gun privateer built in 1779-1780 in Plymouth Mass.
Rattlesnake
Royal Thamesis is a replica of the royal barge of Queen Mary.
Royal Thamesis
A project to construct a replica of Royal Transport (former "HMS Royal Transport") the royal yacht of Peter the Great.
HMS Royal Transport is one of the most beautiful ships to have ever been built. In the elegance of her revolutionary rigging, her form, and the beauty of her decorations Royal Transport has hardly been surpassed.Royal Transport project -- official website
The HMS Royal Transport, designed by Peregrine Osborne, Marquis of Carmarthen, was very advanced. She was famous at the time for being the fastest ship in the British Royal Navy. She had sleek lines, sharply raked masts, a revolutionary type of rigging and a steering wheel instead of a tiller. She was 25 meters (82 ft) in length, 8 meters (26 ft) wide, and had 24 cannon for saluting. When Tsar Peter the Great visited England in 1698 on his Great Embassy, King William presented the Royal Transport to him as a gift, to symbolize the friendship between the two countries. Tsar Peter was captivated by the beauty and speed of the yacht, and used her to visit various English ports.
Returning to Russia, Peter kept the "Royal Transport" in the northern port of Archangel, always sailing in her on his visits there. In 1715, on a voyage to St. Petersburg, the yacht was caught in a storm and wrecked off the coast of Sweden.
HMS Royal Transport was a beautiful ship with her surprisingly modern sleek lines and sharply raked masts. A 25 metre two-masted vessel, she was rigged with gaff fore and mainsail and staysails. Everything in this yacht was unusual for the time: the rig, a steering wheel instead of a tiller, and her shape of course - the keel seems to have been pushed into the ship, so the floor timbers as they leave the keel were bent down, not up. Moreover, the rowing stations were constructed in the sides of the boat. She was eight meters wide, drawing only 2.5 meters, and carried 24 cannon which were used only for saluting. The yacht was famous as the fastest ship in the Royal Navy of that time and could carry up to a hundred people on board. There are no drawings of the ship left but the handsome construction model has survived and is kept now in the St. Petersburg Central Naval Museum.
A replica of a historic 19th century canal packet boat operating on the Genesee River and Erie Canal.
Sam Patch
A replica of the Japanese ship Date Maru later known by its Spanish name San Juan Bautista. Commissioned in September 1613, the ship sailed from Japan to Acapulco to take Hasekura Tsunenaga on an embassy to New Spain. That ship was itself a copy of a Spanish galleon built by the Japanese.
San Juan Bautista Japanese site
San Juan Bautista at Wikipedia
A replica of Columbus's flagship of 1492.
Santa Maria
A replica of
Shining Sea
An authentic replica of 28-gun frigate Shtandart of 1703 built by Peter the Great, first Russian-built man of war. Operates as a sail training ship.
Despite there only being an engraving of the original ship, plans commenced. She was built as near as possible with methods and materials used to build the original ship. 250 hand-felled trees, 8000 handmade nails and almost 5 years of hard work went into her construction.Shtandart -- official website
A replica of the famous U.S. warship Enterprize of 1799. The ship, to be designed by Tri-Coastal Marine, Inc., is scheduled for completion late in 2002 and will make her home on the Anacosta River near South Capitol Street Bridge in Washington D.C., USA.
Spirit of Enterprize
Sultana is a full-scale reproduction of the 1768 colonial schooner SULTANA. The replica now sails on educational voyages as the "schoolship of the Chesapeake".
SULTANA is one of the earliest examples of schooner building in North America and was the smallest schooner ever to be registered on the Royal Navy Lists. As a vessel of mixed American and British heritage, SULTANA has roots on both sides of the Atlantic and was on the scene when the American colonists were taking their first substantial steps towards independence. The keel for SULTANA was laid in Boston, Massachusetts in 1767 by noted American shipwright Benjamin Hollowell. Though built as a combination cargo schooner/yacht, SULTANA was soon sold to the Royal Navy for use as a dispatch boat and revenue cruiser, enforcing the newly enacted "tea taxes." The tiny SULTANA was delivered to the Royal Navy Yard in Deptford, England in March 1768, where she was surveyed, armed and refitted. Sailing with her full complement of twenty-five crew, SULTANA was ordered back to the colonies in the summer of 1768 and spent the next four years patrolling the East Coast of North America from Halifax to the Chesapeake. SULTANA is one of the most thoroughly documented vessels from the early Revolutionary period. The schooner's daily logbooks, musterbooks and correspondence have all been preserved and are housed in the Public Records office in London, England. These documents give an incredible glimpse of life on the coast of colonial America in the years leading up to the revolution. As the revolution approached SULTANA's limits as a warship were severely challenged. Her relatively small crew and light armaments often placed the tiny schooner at a severe disadvantage when dealing with onerous American merchantmen. Ultimately the Royal Navy recognized SULTANA's limits as a warship and wisely ordered the schooner back to England where she was sold out of the Navy and returned to private commercial service. After her sale on August 11, 1773, the Royal Navy ceased keeping track of the schooner and her ultimate fate remains a mystery.Sultana
"HMS" Rose -- a replica of a sixth rate British frigate built in 1757 -- was bought by 20th Century Fox in 2001 and transformed into HMS Surprise, famous for its role in Patrick O'Brians Aubrey/Maturin novels. She lies at the San Diego Maritime Museum, but is scheduled to leave 30 November 2004.
HMS Surprise
Full scale replica of the English ship "Susan Constant" chartered by the Virginia Company which reached Virginia in the spring of 1607, along with Godspeed and Discovery under the command of Captain Christopher Newport. The construction of the vessel is photographically documented in "Wooden Ship: the Art, History, and Revival of Wooden Boatbuilding", Peter H. Spectre and David Larkin, Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1991.
A previous replica of Susan Constant was built in 1956 for the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown colony.
Susan Constant
A replica of HM Brig Swift, a New England built 10 gun fast brig of 1778. However the replica (or re-creation) is rigged as a topsail schooner. Previously owned by James Cagney and used in numerous Hollywood films.
Swift of Ipswich
A full scale replica of a Lake Ontario schooner.
The warship H.M.S. Tecumseth is a 124' replica of her namesake which was originally built in Chippewa in 1814 before her eventual transfer to the Penetanguishene Naval Establishment in 1817. Today's ship was commissioned at the 1994 Georgian Bay Marine Heritage Festival where she received an historic warrant officially reinstating her as an honourary ship in the British Navy. H.M.S. Tecumseth is now the flagship of Discovery Harbour. The replica was designed from original British admiralty plans and has been built to appear as close as possible to the original ship. Because of her active use some modern materials have been employed in her construction. The hull is made of steel, deck and masts are fir, and deck rails are fir over steel. Rigging uses traditional manila, steel cable with manila surround, and Roblon (a synthetic hemp). H.M.S. Tecumseth also carries up-to-date navigation and safety equipment. She flies a total of eight sails consisting of mainsail, foresail, jib, flying jib, gaff topsail, staysail, topgallant, and topsail.H.M.S Tecumseth
Tre Kronor af Stockholm ("Three Crowns of Stockholm", also known as Stockholmsbriggen, "The Stockholm Brig") is a replica of the brig Gladan, originally built in the mid 1800 as a freight ship, later transformed to school ship, and used as such until 1924.ŹShe sank at a wharf quay in 1942, and was later on blown to pieces.
Tre Kronor af Stockholm website
A historic reconstruction of a Dutch state yacht from 1746 based on a design in the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam.
Het Utrechts Statenjacht
The Vaka Taumoko project of Dr Mimi George has reconstructed a Pacific voyaging
proa, recognising the extraordinary achievements of Polynesian
navigators.
Vaka Taumoko
A replica of the Gokstad ship, she sailed across the Atlantic under Captain Magnus Andersen to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 in 28 days. One of the first ever ship replicas. See my list Viking Ship Replicas for a full A to Z list of all viking ship replicas.
The Viking website
In 1995 the keel was laid for the reconstruction of the man-of-war De Zeven Provincien from 1665. The "Zeven Provinciën" (i.e. Seven Provinces, since the Dutch Republic in the 17th century consisted of seven rather independent lands) was originally built in 1664-65 for the Admiralty of the Meuse in Rotterdam, by Master Shipbuilder Salomon Jansz van den Tempel.
In 1995 a reconstruction ship started on the Batavia Yard in Lelystad, under the guidance of master shipwright Willem Vos, the man that had already built the VOC merchantman Batavia. The ship is being built by a group of young people, within a training programme and will probably be finished between 2005 and 2008.
De Zeven Provinciën website
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