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read your interesting article about tall ships of the world in the January/February 2022 issue (). I don’t know why you left out one of the most magnificent tall ships of all—the . The is owned by a German corporation and tourists can book passages on it for Mediterranean and Caribbean cruises. I’m sure you are aware of it. Details are available online. My wife and I sailed on it in Greece several years ago. It was a wonderful experience. You could do a whole article on the ship.

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