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Tall Ship Glenlee

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Tall Ship Glenlee in Scotland Central, United Kingdom.

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Plan your visit

Typical visit
2 h–3 h
  • Family-friendly
  • Limited wheelchair access

About

Tall Ship Glenlee is a preserved museum ship in Scotland Central, United Kingdom — a vessel of historic significance preserved as a public visitor attraction. Britain's museum ships span Tudor warships (Mary Rose), tea clippers (Cutty Sark), Victorian battleships (HMS Warrior) and 20th-century submarines.

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From the Wikipedia article

Glenlee is a steel-hulled three-masted barque, built as a cargo ship at Port Glasgow under that name in 1896 for Glasgow owners. With later owners she was named Islamount and Clarastella. From 1922 she was the sail training ship Galatea in the Spanish Navy. Since 1993, carrying her original name, Glenlee has been a museum ship at the Riverside Museum on Pointhouse Quay in the Partick area of Glasgow, known as The Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour.

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Background

Description

commemorating shipbuilders.]] Glenlee was built by Anderson Rodger & Company at their Bay Shipyard in Port Glasgow for the Glen-line of the Glasgow shipping company Archibald Sterling & Co. Ltd., and was launched on 3 December 1896. She has a hull length of 245.5 ft, beam of 37.5 ft and depth of 22.5 ft, the over-all length with the spike bowsprit is 282 ft. She was measured at 1,613 GRT and 1,488 NRT. Rigged only with double topgallant sails over double top sails, she was not equipped with royal sails (baldheader rigging) to save costs concerning gear and seamen. As with many baldheaded sailing ships the square sails were a little wider than the sails of a standard rigging to gain sail…

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Coordinates
55.8626, -4.2981
District
Glasgow City
Postcode
G3 8QQ
Parliamentary constituency
Glasgow North
Phone
+44 141 2121401
Established
1896

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Tall Ship Glenlee?
Tall Ship Glenlee is in central Scotland, United Kingdom (postcode G3 8QQ).
When was Tall Ship Glenlee built?
Built or established in 1896.
Who owns Tall Ship Glenlee?
Tall Ship Glenlee is owned by Società Italiana di Navigazione Stella d'Italia.
How do I get to Tall Ship Glenlee?
Drivers can navigate to postcode G3 8QQ. It sits within the Glasgow North parliamentary constituency.