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Show PARADE OF SAIL HONORS OCCASION i TALL SHIP WITH A TALL GOAL-The Sir Winston Churchill, Britain's largest sailing ship, salutes the Bicentennial Bicen-tennial through participation in the Transatlantic Tall Ships Race and the Op Sail '76 Parade of Sail. Tall sailing ships from all over the world are going on parade to celebrate America's Ameri-ca's Bicentennial. In the major maritime salute, more than 225 ships from 35 countries sail through New York Harbor and up the Hudson River in the Independence Day Parade Pa-rade of Sail, one of the most spectacular gatherings of sailing sail-ing ships ever witnessed. An interesting ship to join the celebration is the Sir Winston Churchill. It is Britain's largest sailing ship, a three-masted topsail schooner, built in 1966 by the British Sail Training Association, for the exclusive exclu-sive purpose of training young people in good sailing sail-ing and good character. But this time the young people are something different. differ-ent. The Parade of Sail under the direction of Operation Oper-ation Sail 1976, climaxes the Transatlantic Tall Ships race which began on May 2 in Plymouth, England, headed head-ed for Newport, Rhode Island. Is-land. On the last leg of the voyage from Bermuda to Newport the ship is manned by a crew of 42 young women, wo-men, ranging in age from 16 to 25, Most have no previous pre-vious sailing experience, so it's all a matter of rigorous on-the-job training. According to J. Roy Nicholas, president of Royal-Globe Royal-Globe Insurance Companies, sponsoring the Winston Churchill, "The Companies are proud to be associated with the Sir Winston Churchill Church-ill in this international gathering. gath-ering. Not only is this program pro-gram a fitting Bicentennial tribute to the maritime history his-tory of the United States, but it also - affords thousands thou-sands of young people an excellent opportunity to meet together in an exchange ex-change of international goodwill." Royal-Globe Insurance, In-surance, part of an international inter-national insurance group, has' 125 offices throughout the United States. Royal-Globe Royal-Globe will provide a prize for the winner of the last leg of the competition, from Bermuda to Newport. America's Bicentennial is a symbol a symbol of freedom free-dom and brotherhood that has lasted two centuries. And the Tall Ships Race symbolizes healthy competition competi-tion and international goodwill. |
