Friday 26th October
A Parade of Sail

The Maginificent Ships have now arrived.  See pictures of the festival.

Saturday 27th October
Shore Leave (12:00 - 18:00)
An amazing day of family entertainment.
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Night Ships (18.00 - 22.00)
The amazing ships were illuminated and the setting for classical music.
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Sunday 28th October
Be Calm (10.30 - 17.00)
Arts, crafts and music were the setting for a relaxing day in the Docks.
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Monday 29th October
Sail Away
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Other attractions
Historic Gloucester Docks has an excellent range of visitor attractions you can enjoy at any time of the year, as well as, during the Tall Ships Festival.  You can shop for that special item at Gloucester Antiques Centre, discover the story of the inland waterways at the National Waterways Museum and discover the county's proud regiment at the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum.  There are also scheduled 45 minute boat trips along the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal.

Five tall ships attended the event:

The Earl of Pembroke. Originally named Orion and built in Pukavik, Sweden in 1948.

She traded timber in the Baltic and British East Coast until being laid up in Denmark in 1974.   In 1985 she underwent a complete restoration programme.   In 1994 she was commissioned as the three masted 18th century wooden Barque that she is today.

Phoenix. Built by Hjorne & Jakobsen at Frederikshavn, Denmark in 1929 as an Evangelical Mission Schooner.  She retired from missionary work 20 years later and carried cargo until her engine room was damaged by fire. She was bought by new owners in 1974 who converted her into a Brigantine. In 1988 a first aid over-haul enabled her to sail back to the UK where she underwent a complete refit.

Ruth. a 28 metre gaff rigged ketch which was built in 1914 for trade in the Baltic.

Kathleen & May.  The last remaining three masted schooner: a type of trading vessel that would have been common in Gloucester 100 years ago.  She has been in Gloucester before in a derelict form; now she returns restored to her former glory.  This could be the last chance to see her in Britain as she is being sold by her current owner.  She is on the Great Britain register of historic ships.

Johanna Lucretia.  Built in 1945 in Ghent, Belgium as a fishing vessel.  She is rigged as a topsail schooner.  She is well travelled; having sailed in the Carribean, from the Eastern coast of the YSA and from Gibraltar.