Historic Tall Ships Hermione and Sagres
by Dora Sofia Caputo
Title
Historic Tall Ships Hermione and Sagres
Artist
Dora Sofia Caputo
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Historic Tall Ships Hermione and Sagres - Dora Sofia Caputo
The Hermione (France) and the Sagres (Portugal) - Image captured at the Tall Ships Challenge 2015, in Greenport Harbor, N.Y.
So excited to have seen these historic tall ships at Greenport Harbor on the Fourth of July week-end.
The Hermione is a 12-pounder Concorde class frigate, completed in Rochefort, France in 2014. She is a reproduction of the 1779 Hermione which achieved fame by ferrying General Lafayette to the United States in 1780 to allow him to rejoin the American side in the American Revolutionary War.
The Hermione's symbolic 2015 journey across the Atlantic, simulates the route made by France's LaFayette in 1780, celebrating the historic relationship between the USA and France.
A steel-built, three-masted barque, the Sagres is a 295-foot Navy Tall Ship out of Portugal that was actually built in 1937 by the German Navy.
First used in international training voyages, the vessel later served as a stationary office ship for Nazi Germany during World War II. In 1944, Sagres was put into military action, only to be damaged by a Soviet mine that November and captured by the U.S. Navy.
The ship was then sold by the U.S. in 1948 to Brazil, who after more than a dozen years sold it Portugal in 1961. Still in service as a training ship for the Portugese Navy, the Sagres made its first voyage around the world in 2010.
Uploaded
July 7th, 2015
Embed
Share
