Tall Ships are coming

yes , george , the other two sailships were the GORCH FOCK (she went to the soviet-union) and the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Leo_Schlageter_(sailing_ship) (she went to portugal) .

sorry , couldn't get the URL to work - just click on the address

it's amazing that after 70 years they are still sailing .
all three ships were built in HAMBURG :wink: - perhaps that's why they standing up so well .
hbg

btw the USCGC EAGLE is the former german navy training ship HORST WESSEL built in germany in 1936 . she was seized by the united states after WW II .

This was also likely a traditional element of the Baltic culture of which Hamburg was, of course, a principal part.

I was thinking in historical terms. Hamburg was a principal component of the Hanseatic league of medieval North Sea and Baltic trading states.

Here are a few more pictures from a boat in the waterway.

This is the Bounty

Due to Homeland Security, all vessels must stay at least 50 yards away from the tall ships when they are under sail.

On Sunday, it was either the F/A-18 Super Hornet or the F-16 Fighting Falcon
that was leaving since they are not stationed here.

The pilot did a low speed fly by over the bridge and we were all waving at him. He tipped his wings for a few seconds, then straightened out, and kicked in those after burners and he was outta there headed west. I wished him a happy and safe flight back to his base

george wrote :

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I was thinking in historical terms. Hamburg was a principal component of the Hanseatic league of medieval North Sea and Baltic trading states.

i understand what you mean , but the hamburg merchants always considered themselves to be more english than anything else - they certainly were not fond of prussia at all .

[...] Still, Lübeck's role and that of the other Hanseatic towns became much more confined to the Baltic itself as, with the rise of the Atlantic system, trading routes moved to the west to the benefit of Antwerp, Amsterdam and London. From 1600 on, Hanseatic seaborne trade was mostly limited to short hauls between the Scandinavian and the southern Baltic ports, with only sporadic long-distance voyages to the Mediterranean or across the oceans. This led to the remarkable situation that one of Europe's largest fleets was cut off from Europe's newly emerging maritime flows. Only Hamburg escaped this fate, by ceasing its resistance to the English merchant adventurers and allowing a massive influx of Protestant immigrants from Antwerp and of converted Portuguese Jews, who had escaped the claws of the Inquisition. Thanks to the immigrants' world-encompassing networks, the Elbe harbour rapidly replaced Lübeck as the largest maritime centre on the Baltic shores. The transfer of former Hanseatic business into foreign and, progressively, Dutch hands marked the final stage of the prolonged demise of the League. The final blow came in 1648, when Sweden occupied the Pomerian and northern German shores. With the Wend cities of Stettin, Stralsund and Wismar becoming Swedish, and Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck forced into benevolent neutrality, the days of the League were numbered. In 1669, the last general Hanseatic meeting assembled in Lübeck in order to confirm the League's status as a quasi impotent power in the Baltic.

Wonders never cease! Walter is coming to my aid in a dispute with hamburger.