as in merchant ship
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Recent Examples of tall ship
Key West Historic Seaport Key West’s old seaport is a gem: a waterfront harborwalk with shopping and dining in the middle of a marina that features fishing charters, sunset-sailing catamarans and tall ships.
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Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
While some smaller sailing companies rely more fully on a where-the-wind-takes-you approach, with no set route or cruising speeds, larger tall ship lines like Star Clippers have itineraries to keep.
—Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2023
The Dutch tall ship Oosterschelde began its two year mission as a floating laboratory, where about 200 conservationists and naturalists will gather along the way to take part in a project called Darwin200.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
The nineteenth century is just visible in the background, walled off by plywood fencing: the masts of the South Street Seaport Museum’s tall ships rise like barren pines, and iron-and-brick waterfront warehouses appear crisp and silvery in the bright early light.
—Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
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Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
While some smaller sailing companies rely more fully on a where-the-wind-takes-you approach, with no set route or cruising speeds, larger tall ship lines like Star Clippers have itineraries to keep.
—Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2023
The Dutch tall ship Oosterschelde began its two year mission as a floating laboratory, where about 200 conservationists and naturalists will gather along the way to take part in a project called Darwin200.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
The nineteenth century is just visible in the background, walled off by plywood fencing: the masts of the South Street Seaport Museum’s tall ships rise like barren pines, and iron-and-brick waterfront warehouses appear crisp and silvery in the bright early light.
—Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tall ship
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One example: On March 14, 1970, during the Vietnam War, two crewmembers with pistols took control of the SS Columbia Eagle, a U.S. merchant ship delivering napalm and other ammo to the warzone.—
Roberto Loiederman,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Jan. 2025
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From an opening scene on the high seas as a French merchant ship is aflame to a stag hunt on an aristocratic estate to a pistol duel at dawn, the writer-directors capture the scope and grandeur of Dumas’ story.—
Scott Phillips,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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Read Next Florida ‘Frantic barks’ lead to scared dog stuck in storm drain.—
Sara Schilling,
Sacramento Bee,
23 Jan. 2025
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It's packed with skin-loving ingredients like glycolic acid to gently exfoliate, willow bark extract to keep pores clear, and green tea seed oil to nourish and soothe.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
23 Jan. 2025
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One trend seems to be more compact boats with larger yacht features—such as foldout sides of the cockpit, lounges on the bow, and big for internal light.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
21 Jan. 2025
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There is a private yacht cruise in Macquarie Harbour, a visit to the Port Arthur penal colony, Australia's most historic site, and the fun of exploring Hobart's Salamanca Market.—
Everett Potter,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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The Shipwreck Bar is an actual schooner that once belonged to the resort’s original owner.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024
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The schooner’s South Australian owner escaped conviction on slavery charges because the prosecution didn’t have enough evidence to prove that working conditions at the ship’s destination of Fiji constituted slavery.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Dec. 2024
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Most summer and fall weekends, my family raced sailboats in different places around the bay.—
The Editors,
Outside Online,
25 Dec. 2024
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Large sailboats ferrying immigrants from Europe to New York at the turn of the 19th century were replaced by the new technology of steamships within 15 years.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 Dec. 2024
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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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Meanwhile, any question that Jod and Captain Silvo (the pirate whose crew mutinied in the series premiere) are one and the same was dismissed, when Brutus and his crew spoke of how Silvo had escaped the brig before facing a trial.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
10 Dec. 2024
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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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That’s why the country has two aircraft carriers and a hundred-billion-pound nuclear-weapons program, but the entire British Army could fit inside Manchester United’s soccer stadium, with a few seats to spare.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Hours before the ceasefire in Gaza was announced Wednesday, Ansar Allah military spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed the group targeted the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and other U.S. Navy ships operating in the Red Sea.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Tall ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tall%20ship. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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