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A Sailing vessel, especially if it is, as here, a square-rigged wind-jammer, will always be preferred to steam craft by lovers of the picturesque. The(...)
A Sailing vessel, especially if it is, as here, a square-rigged wind-jammer, will always be preferred to steam craft by lovers of the picturesque. The(...)

A Sailing vessel, especially if it is, as here, a square-rigged wind-jammer, will always be preferred to steam craft by lovers of the picturesque. The(...)

Date2/22/1947
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Original Toronto Star caption: A Sailing vessel; especially if it is; as here; a square-rigged wind-jammer; will always be preferred to steam craft by lovers of the picturesque. The glow of the setting sun adds to the romance of the subject.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0014429F
Sailing's strenuous on a vessel the size of the 60 foot square-rigged, two-masted brigantine, the Playfair especially when it's time to trim the sails(...)
Sailing's strenuous on a vessel the size of the 60 foot square-rigged, two-masted brigantine, the Playfair especially when it's time to trim the sails(...)
Beaty, Keith
8/4/1977
'Windjammer' breezes into Toronto, Norwegian Training Ship Christian Radich, which was featured in film Wind jammer, sits in Toronto bay with one of 8(...)
'Windjammer' breezes into Toronto, Norwegian Training Ship Christian Radich, which was featured in film Wind jammer, sits in Toronto bay with one of 8(...)
Roworth, Eddy
8/25/1964
If you have the skills, bareboating (chartering a sailing vessel and providing your own crew) is a great adventure
If you have the skills, bareboating (chartering a sailing vessel and providing your own crew) is a great adventure
Bryant, George
7/4/1973
Better late I, Tall ship Ciudad de Inca, a square-rigged brigantine built in 1858, arrived a little late for the sailpast at Harborfront last week. On(...)
Better late I, Tall ship Ciudad de Inca, a square-rigged brigantine built in 1858, arrived a little late for the sailpast at Harborfront last week. On(...)
Griffin, Doug
7/9/1984
Picture of a large sailing ship with sails down. 
Sailing ship 'Lyman M. Davis' lying at Sunnyside Beach, Toronto
Approximatley 1934
Shipshape for the season, Crew member Lee Cruickshanks works on the tip of the bowsprit of the Empire Sandy yesterday, getting the vessel shipshape fo(...)
Shipshape for the season, Crew member Lee Cruickshanks works on the tip of the bowsprit of the Empire Sandy yesterday, getting the vessel shipshape fo(...)
Spremo, Boris
5/15/1990
The deliverance, a 17th century craft built from the wreckage of the ship which brought the English to Bermuda in 1609, survives in a replica now stan(...)
The deliverance, a 17th century craft built from the wreckage of the ship which brought the English to Bermuda in 1609, survives in a replica now stan(...)
Bryant, George
9/28/1974
Ships - Sailing - Old - miscellaneous
Ships - Sailing - Old - miscellaneous
Toronto Star (Firm)
5/1/1939
Crosses sea under own canvas from Norway, Torontonians will soon have a chance to see the sailing ship Sortlandet, which has crossed the ocean from No(...)
Crosses sea under own canvas from Norway, Torontonians will soon have a chance to see the sailing ship Sortlandet, which has crossed the ocean from No(...)
Toronto Star (Firm)
5/20/1933
Sailing through history
Sailing through history
Spremo, Boris
6/3/1991
The 'Nonsuch' touches in at Toronto, Floating under the shadows of Toronto's skyline, the Nonsuch, a replica of the 17th century sailing ship that hel(...)
The 'Nonsuch' touches in at Toronto, Floating under the shadows of Toronto's skyline, the Nonsuch, a replica of the 17th century sailing ship that hel(...)
James, Norman
n.d.
Ships - Yachts - Sailing - miscellaneous
Ships - Yachts - Sailing - miscellaneous
Bryant, George
7/5/1973