Not only do you get to enjoy the thrill of riding on a historic ship, but you get to climb the mast, a truly unforgetable ... era giving us the full 18th century sailing experience.

Its towering masts and 18th century rigging set it apart from any other boat out here. I climb a dangling rope ladder to board the ship and end up on a wooden deck that's just been swabbed.

is taking shape in an old fertilizer factory up the Hudson River. Dubbed Friendship after an 18th-century ship of the ... of Salem Maritime. The ship’s masts and yardarms towering above Derby ...

L’Hermione, with three sail masts and bright royal blue and gold markings, is a painstaking replica of an 18th century French frigate ... a group of people came up with the idea of ...

I’d have to climb the “ratlines” (rope ladders in the rigging) on to the platform known as the “tops”, about 68ft up. Making my way up the side of the ship ... from the mast on a ...

A Mexican navy tall ship’s fatal collision with the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday highlighted a hazard that has worried ...

The construction of galleons, which were used from the mid-16th century to the 18th century ... on sailing ships in the 17th century). The masts attached to the hull can be up to 100m tall ...