J.S.V. Weilbach's flag and sail making activities continued into the twentieth century, but the decline of the sailing fleet after 1900 caused the business to contract.
A plain white ensign indicated the French sailing fleet, a red flag a galley, while the blue flag was flown by the merchant ships.
Riedemann's sailing fleet, which consisted of 5 petroleum clippers, including the Maria Anna, and 6 other ships, was dissolved in 1889.
The 19th-century seafaring village contains nearly all the types of general and specialized trades associated with building and operating a sailing fleet.
I mean, he might switch the whole Navy around, make it a sailing fleet.
On 19 March 1788, the Russian sailing fleet moved from its position near Cherson to Cape Stanislav.
Meanwhile, Venetian commander Andrea Cornaro had sailed south from Corfu to Sapienza with his sailing fleet, leaving the galley fleet behind, under Andrea Pisani.
This battle, although itself indecisive, showed that the Turkish sailing fleet could be faced, if not necessarily beaten, even if in superior numbers.
The academy maintains a sailing fleet of over 150 vessels to support the offshore sailing and dinghy sailing teams, in addition to the summer sail training programs.
She is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States.