The Gloria #1
by Joe Cashin
Title
The Gloria #1
Artist
Joe Cashin
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This picture was taken at the start of the Tall ships race from Waterford in Ireland. You can see the crew standing on the sails as they salute farewell to Ireland. They are dressed in their countries colours. The Gloria is the official flagship and sail-training ship of the Colombian Navy, and her home port is Cartagena.
Purpose-built in 1968 as a sail-training ship in the Celeya shipyard in Spain, the Gloria is over 56 meters (257ft) long - one of the biggest tall ships still afloat. She is steel-hulled, but there is plenty of polished wood and brass and her four masts and 23 sails give her an appearance of being even older than she is (every step on the ship has the name Gloria embedded in the solid brass escutcheon scuff-plates). Her figurehead, coated in glittering gold-leaf, is called Maria Salud, reputedly after the sculptor's daughter.
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March 1st, 2013
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