HMS Surprise - Tall Ship Journal

HMS Surprise - Tall Ship Journal She served as a dockside vessel in Newport, RI, toured the Great Lakes and sailed from Maine to Florida.

Launched in 1970 at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the "HMS" Surprise was originally built as a replica of the HMS Rose, a 24-gun, sixth-rate ship built in Hull, England in 1757. In 1992, she was CG certified as a Class A sail school vessel. In 2001, she was purchased by Twentieth Century Fox and converted into a 28-gun French frigate to star in the film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (

2003). In 2004, the "HMS" Surprise was purchased by the Maritime Museum of San Diego (MMSD). When Walt Disney Pictures needed ships for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), the Surprise was cast as Barbossa's ship, the HMS Providence. The Surprise has also been in numerous television and commercial productions. The "HMS" Surprise is currently berthed at the Maritime Museum of San Diego and, furnished with many of the original movie props from Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, attracts visitors from all over the world who enjoy exploring her maritime beauty as they take a "step back in time." She also serves as a training vessel for the MMSD volunteer Sail and Maintenance crew and goes out to sea a few times a year. Length: 135' overall
Beam: 32'
Draft: 13'
Tonnage: 500 tons of displacement
Power: Sails, rigged as a full-rigged ship, diesel
Hull: Wood

01/14/2024

Breathtaking!

09/08/2023

~~ Street art by Sfhir
in Fene - Spain.

05/12/2023
Surprise's new deck, phase one. Crew is currently giving Berkeley a much needed face lift (note scaffolding), then repor...
07/16/2018

Surprise's new deck, phase one. Crew is currently giving Berkeley a much needed face lift (note scaffolding), then reportedly, will return to finish replacing the Surprise's deck.

Looking up the mainm'st
10/05/2015

Looking up the mainm'st

Straight forward
10/05/2015

Straight forward

Looking sternward
10/05/2015

Looking sternward

Port rail, forward
10/05/2015

Port rail, forward

Starboard rail, forward
10/05/2015

Starboard rail, forward

Sakman, craft native to Guam, staying alongside Surprise
10/05/2015

Sakman, craft native to Guam, staying alongside Surprise

10/05/2015

I'm posting some rainy day pics of our lovely Surprise. As you will have heard by now, she's once again open to visitors. Huzzah!

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