Tall Ships

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - Tall Ships:

The annual Parade of Sail is scheduled to enter the Downtown Norfolk Harbor at Noon on Friday, June 10.

Several of the ships participating in the parade will be open for public tours on Saturday and Sunday. They include:

American Rover - a three-masted topsail schooner, celebrating its 25th season of sailing in Norfolk.

Gazela - a three-masted Barquentine tall ship from Philadelphia.

Godspeed - The Godspeed is a re-creation of one of three ships that transported America's first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607. The three mastered square-rigged ship is part of the living history program at Jamestown Settlement.

Kalmar Nyckel - The Kalmar Nyckel is a replica of the Swedish-owned ship that brought the first permanent European settlers to the Delaware Valley in 1638. Today, she serves as Delaware's sea-going Ambassador of Good Will.

Spirit of Independence - A re-creation of a schooner similar in design to the coasting schooners that plied the waters off the coasts of America during the 19th and the first part of the 20th century.

USS Wisconsin - No tall ship, the USS Wisconsin is an Iowa-class battleship built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Penn., and launched on Dec. 7, 1943. The ship saw service in World War II, Korea, and Operation Desert Storm.  It was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on March 17, 2006. The ship is on permanent display in Whisky Basin, next to Nauticus.