2010 Parade of Tall Ships at Sturgeon Bay, WI

Early morning in Sturgeon Bay as we head out to see the tall ships come into Sturgeon Bay. Tug John Purvis in front of the Door County Maritime Museum.

Selvick tugs in Sturgeon Bay's west side dock

The historic Michigan Street Bridge in Sturgeon Bay

The 137 foot S/V Denis Sullivan, Wisconsin’s State Flagship, is a three-masted Great Lakes cargo schooner whose home port is Milwaukee. The schooner is widely recognized as one of the finest ocean-going sailing vessels in the world

The Roseway is a two-masted, 137-foot schooner. It is an original tall ship, constructed in Essex, Mass. in 1925 and rehabilitated in 2002. The ship is the country’s last sailing pilot schooner and is a National Historic Landmark. Owned by the World Ocean School, it is now used as a training vessel for young people, making trips to the Virgin Islands to the Northeast every year.

The sloop Friends Good Will, from South Haven, Michigan, is a replica of a square top sail sloop of the same name that sailed and fought in the War of 1812.

Appledore IV, from Grahm Park, is a steel hulled Gaff rigged schooner of a type typical of those sailed on coastal waters and in the Great Lakes right up to the end of the age of sail. Schooners were the workhorses of their era providing the primary means of transportation for goods and passengers over long distances.

Royaliste is a living history interpretation and reenactment vessel. She is a 68' LOA gaff-rigged, square-tops'l ketch refit to specifications of an 18th-century dispatch gunboat/bomb ketch.

Fog thickened as we passed through the Sturgeon Bay canal on our way out to the mouth of Lake Michigan to meet the tall ships.

The Sturgeon Bay Coast Guard Station and lighthouse.

Despite the fog, people lined the pier to see the ships.

Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal Pierhead

Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal North Pierhead Lighthouse and Fog Signal. Built in 1903 to replace the original lighthouse and fog signals, which were in poor condition. The sixth order Fresnel lens was transferred from the previous lighthouse. The house is a two-story wood framed building sheathed with steel plates to protect it from the Lake Michigan elements. The tower is on the eastern end of the roof, and rises to a total height of 39'. There is an elevated catwalk connecting it to the shore to allow safe passage during heavy storms.

As you can see, not all the "ships" were tall.

A view of the U.S. Coast Guard Station at Sturgeon Bay, and the canal that now connects Lake Michigan to Green Bay.

Lynx and Unicorn

Lynx was designed and built to interpret the general configuration and operation of a privateer schooner or naval schooner from the War of 1812.

Lynx

Lynx is a square topsail schooner based in Newport Beach, California. She is an interpretation of an American letter of marque vessel of the same name from 1812

Unicorn

Unicorn- Holland-built in 1947 from German U-boat metals

Unicorn, a 116 foot square topsail schooner, has an all-female crew.

Unicorn is a 116 foot square topsail schooner, the only tall ship in the world with an all-female crew.

Unicorn

Lynx and Unicorn entering the Sturgeon Bay ship canal

Lynx and Unicorn

YP-671 "Manatra

YP-671 "Manatra. "YP is a training ship on loan from the US Navy to the Marine Navigation Training organization of Chicago. At the time of the parade, it was being used for two weeks of US Naval Sea Cadet "Seamanship" training.

HMS Bounty- Built in 1962 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia for the film "Mutiny of the Bounty". It was built to the original plans and in the traditional manner of the original Bounty, but 1/3 larger to accommodate cameras and crew. It was scheduled to be burned in a final scene of the film, but was saved when Marlon Brando threatened to walk off the set.

Bounty also appeared in two of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

Bounty

Bounty

Bounty

Bounty

Roald Amundsen was designed and built as a deep-sea fish lugger in 1952 to service the military fleet of former East Germany. When the Berlin Wall came down, history rendered her obsolete and she was laid up in Wolgast/Germany, where she was discovered by a handful of enthusiasts in 1992 and converted and rigged as a traditional brig. Roald Amundsen has since been used for sail training.

Roald Amundsen typically sails the waters of the North Sea, Baltic Sea and English Channel in the summers and travels south through the Bay of Biscay into the Mediterranean all the way to the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa in winter. Having traveled to America in 2000, the ship once again crossed the Atlantic in 2010 to join the TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® in the Great Lakes.

Roald Amundsen