Young Endeavour

Young Endeavour is the Royal Australian Navy's sail training ship, a bicentennial gift from the UK to Australia in 1988.

There's no launch date, but construction was started in May 1986 and the voyage to Australia in August, 1987. That makes her a few months older than Lady Nelson. Among the older of the "new" tall ships (One and All was launched in 1985, Leeuwin in 1986. Possibly I've overlooked someone.)

The leaflet I have gives specifications:

Hull is steel, deck is plywood & teak, masts are aluminium alloy, sails are polyester sailcloth, standing rigging is stainless steel wire rope, running rigging is stainless steel or synthetic fibre.

Design speed maximums, 14 knots under sail & 10 knots under power.

Brigantine rigged (there's a diagram below in one of the photos).







So we'll start at the bow and work aft.















Both masts.



Foremast





Lower foremast.





Lower mainmast


The thing that struck me the most, is the amount of empty space there between the masts. Not all that obvious in the photos. There's this expanse of wood with nothing on it.