Jubilee Sailing Trust
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United Kingdom
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which owns and operates two square-rigged three-masted barque
Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...
s, the STS Lord Nelson and the SV Tenacious
SV Tenacious
The STS Tenacious is a modern British wooden sail training ship, specially designed in the 1990s to accommodate the disabled. Launched in 2000, it became the largest wooden tall ship built in the United Kingdom in the last 100 years. It is 65 metres long, including bowsprit...
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The Jubilee Sailing Trust, based in Southampton
Southampton
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, is a sail training
Sail training
From its modern interpretations to its antecedents when maritime nations would send young naval officer candidates to sea , sail training provides an unconventional and effective way of building many useful skills on and off the water....
charity registered with the Charity Commission
Charity Commission
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. Founded in 1978 with money from the Queen
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
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's silver jubilee
Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II
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fund by Christopher Rudd
Christopher Rudd
Christopher Francis Baines Paul Rudd was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. Rudd had played in the Second XI Championship in 1982 and 1984, before starting his first-class county career.In 1985 and 1986 he played Minor Counties cricket for Devon...
, a keen sailor, its aims are: "To integrate both able bodied and disabled persons through Tall Ship sailing".
STS Lord Nelson and SV Tenacious
SV Tenacious
The STS Tenacious is a modern British wooden sail training ship, specially designed in the 1990s to accommodate the disabled. Launched in 2000, it became the largest wooden tall ship built in the United Kingdom in the last 100 years. It is 65 metres long, including bowsprit...
are pioneering in the world of tall ships. They are the only two vessels which have been designed and purpose built to allow people of all physical abilities to sail side by side on equal terms. The proportion of people who have sailed on them is over 40 per cent. Below deck is the accommodation. There are 8 wheelchair cabins with the remaining accommodation being provided by either fixed single bunks on Tenacious and traditional pipe cots on Lord Nelson.
Each year the JST takes around 2,000 adults to sea, both able-bodied and physically disabled. Each ship can sail with up to 40 voyage crew, half of whom may be physically disabled and are guided through each task on board by ten permanent crewmembers. The ships sail around the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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, Western Europe
Western Europe
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, the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
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and the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
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See also
- Sea Cadet Corps
- TS RoyalistTS RoyalistTS Royalist is a brig owned and operated as a sail training ship by the of the United Kingdom.-Description:Royalist is 83 GRT and her hull is long, with an overall length of . As well as her sails, she is equipped with two Perkins diesel engines of each...
- TS Royalist
- Tall Ships Youth TrustTall Ships Youth TrustTall Ships Youth Trust is a sail training organisation in the United Kingdom that currently owns and operates a two mast brig, the Stavros S Niarchos, and four 22m/72 ft Challenger class racing yachts....
- Stavros S NiarchosStavros S Niarchos (ship)The Stavros S Niarchos is a British brig-rigged tall ship owned and operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust. She is primarily designed to provide young people with the opportunity to undertake voyages as character-building exercises, rather than pure sail-training...
- Stavros S Niarchos