BESSIE-ELLEN visited Liverpool during the Riverside Festival

the wooden coasting Ketch, BESSIE-ELLEN was built in Plymouth in 1904, she has a length of 36.5 meters and a crew of 4, she visited Liverpool last week end during the Riverside Festival and was opened to the public, some photos here included taken on the 11th September 2011, please click link on post below for the official web page of this extraordinary ship

Beautiful brig "PHOENIX" at Liverpool

the "PHOENIX" was built in Denmark in 1929, she was built as an evangelical mission schooner, the ship was acquired in 1988, she was converted to a brig in 1996, she is normally based at Charlestown Historic Harbour in Cornwall, she has been used in a few TV series like Frenchman´s Creek, Moll Flanders and Hornblower, she was opened to the public during the Riverside Festival in Liverpool and I have been on board, she looks amazing, very well looked after, the last time I saw her was in Falmouth during the tall ships races in 1998, photos included, 11th September 2011

the tall ship ZEBU

During the SPRING ON THE WATERFRONT event in Liverpool, the T S ZEBU was present, please click on the first image to learn about the history of the vessel, photos taken on the 8th May 2011