On Sunday, June 3rd, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Weekend will culminate with a seven-mile flotilla of 1,000 ships and boats making up the biggest gathering on the Thames in 350 years. One of those vessels will be the sail training ship Pelican. The Pelican, a 148ft long three-masted barquentine, is one of our favorite ships. She is square rigged on the main mast but fore and aft rigged on the fore mast and mizzen — a modern hybrid between a traditional square rig and the mixed square and fore and aft rig of the Barbary coast Xebecs. A short video of the ship shot by The Telegraph. Thanks to Malcolm Mendey for pointing it out on Facebook. See also our previous post – Tall Ship Pelican For Sale.

Exclusive: on board the Pelican of London, a Diamond Jubilee Thames pageant Tall Ship