01/14/2024
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HMS Surprise - Tall Ship Journal
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She served as a dockside vessel in Newport, RI, toured the Great Lakes and sailed from Maine to Florida.
Launched in 1970 at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the "HMS" Surprise was originally built as a replica of the HMS Rose, a 24-gun, sixth-rate ship built in Hull, England in 1757. In 1992, she was CG certified as a Class A sail school vessel. In 2001, she was purchased by Twentieth Century Fox and converted into a 28-gun French frigate to star in the film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (
01/14/2024
09/08/2023
~~ Street art by Sfhir
in Fene - Spain.
05/12/2023
07/16/2018
Surprise's new deck, phase one. Crew is currently giving Berkeley a much needed face lift (note scaffolding), then reportedly, will return to finish replacing the Surprise's deck.
10/05/2015
Looking up the mainm'st
10/05/2015
Straight forward
10/05/2015
Looking sternward
10/05/2015
Port rail, forward
10/05/2015
Starboard rail, forward
10/05/2015
Sakman, craft native to Guam, staying alongside Surprise
I'm posting some rainy day pics of our lovely Surprise. As you will have heard by now, she's once again open to visitors. Huzzah!
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