T/S Elissa.
Apologies for the play on words but we got wind that T/S Elissa was due to sail out of Galveston on a day trip. Sadly the $300 per person to be onboard the tall ship was way out of our price range for a trip round the bay. However, we certainly could afford the free front row seats at Galveston's East Beach to watch her sail by. Here she is passing the decommissioned lighthouse across the bay at Bolivar Point.
A three-masted barque with an iron hull, she was launched in Glasgow in 1877. Over the decades she sailed under a number of different flags and names. It is in recent decades that she has been moored at Galveston where inevitably major maintenance issues have had to be addressed on several occasions.
T/S Elissa.
Apologies for the play on words but we got wind that T/S Elissa was due to sail out of Galveston on a day trip. Sadly the $300 per person to be onboard the tall ship was way out of our price range for a trip round the bay. However, we certainly could afford the free front row seats at Galveston's East Beach to watch her sail by. Here she is passing the decommissioned lighthouse across the bay at Bolivar Point.
A three-masted barque with an iron hull, she was launched in Glasgow in 1877. Over the decades she sailed under a number of different flags and names. It is in recent decades that she has been moored at Galveston where inevitably major maintenance issues have had to be addressed on several occasions.