Tall Ships

Tall Ships

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3260266)

The Bluenose under full sail, 1921.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3353839)

The Bluenose under full sail, 1938.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 2184548)

Bluenose stamp, 1928)

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3406631)

Canadian Coast Guard Ship CGS Arctic at Fullerton, Northwest Territories, unloading supplies, 23 Oct 1904.

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"Arctic" fast in ice off Devil's Thumb, Greenland, 1922.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3399291)

Danish naval barque "Sorlandet" in Cornwall Canal, Ont., 1933.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 2838276)

View of Halifax from the harbour, c1828.

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St. Lawrence Iroquoians welcome Samuel de Champlain, on board of Le Don de Dieu, when arriving at Québec in 1608. Painting by George Agnew Reid - 1909.

HMS Britannia 1836-1851 lithograph by John Ward.

HMS Britannia was a 120-gun first-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1813 and launched on 20 October 1820. Commissioned in 1823, she saw service in the Mediterranean from 1830-1 and in 1841. She was decommissioned in 1843, before returning to service for the Crimean War, serving as flagship of Admiral Sir James Deans Dundas, commanding the British fleet in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from 1851–4. She was engaged in the Bombardment of Sebastopol on 17 October 1854 during the Crimean War. On 14 November 1854, she was driven ashore on the Russian coast and was reported to have 5 feet (1.5 m) of water in her hold. She returned to England at the beginning of 1855 and that year became a hospital ship at Portsmouth, then a cadet training ship in 1859. She was moved to Portland in 1862, then Dartmouth in 1863, where she served as residential barracks for cadets.

The Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Hannibal in Deptford Dockyard in 1853. Originally planned as a 90-gun ship of the line, she was ordered in 1840 but was cancelled. She was re-ordered and finally launched on 31 January 1854. She participated in the Crimean War and transported Giuseppe Garibaldi's men to Naples in 1860 during the Italian unification.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 408969)

U.S. Revenue cutter, Thetis, in the Bering Sea ice, c1889.