Sailing yachtUnited Kingdom flagIMO 1005679

Tenacious

Seen in Lydney on October 23, 2026.

51.71900°N, 2.47980°W Destination Sharpness

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Length65 m

Beam11.0 m

Draught4.6 m

FlagUnited Kingdom

This is Tenacious

SV Tenacious is a modern British wooden sail training ship, specially designed in the 1990s. When completed in 2000, it was the largest wooden ship to be built in the UK for over 100 years.

Design and construction

The ship was built by the Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST) and designed by Tony Castro. With STS Lord Nelson, the pair are the only tall ships in the world that were built so that both disabled and non-disabled people can sail as crew, not passengers. Everyone plays a full and active role in the voyage. The JST is a UN-accredited charity offering sailing adventures to people of all abilities and backgrounds. Launched in 2000, the sailing vessel Tenacious is the largest wooden tall ship built in the United Kingdom in the last 100 years. It is 65 metres (213 ft 3 in) long including bowsprit, and it is rigged as a three-masted barque with two mizzen gaffs.

History

The ship's maiden voyage was on 1 September 2000 from Southampton to Sark, St Helier and Weymouth before returning to Southampton. Due to the height of the masts and rigging, this posed a challenge to the helicopter's pilot and winch crew but the rescue attempt was successful and the crew member survived a potentially fatal condition. In December 2023 the JST announced that Tenacious's owning company was insolvent and had been put into liquidation and that all future cruises had been cancelled. In 2024, a campaign group called 'Save Tall Ship Tenacious' was formed to save the ship.