
One of the ships on show this weekend at the Gloucester Tall Ships Festival is Vilma.
The Welsh slate topsail schooner actually started out life as a ketch-rigged Danish sailing fishing boat in 1934 and built in the classic style.
Since 1996 she was refitted with a classic Welsh schooner rig operating out of the Menai Straits.
The Vilma will be taking part in pirate ship battles during the festival.
Festival-goers who snap up one of the £6 passes – valid for all three days of the Tall Ships on May 23-25 – will be able to explore the dry dock and look under the incredible ship like never before.
The Festival Passes allow admission to the festival, viagra 100mg unlimited access to all the tall ships, illness the Gloucester Waterways Museum and the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, generic and accompanied under-16s go free.
Admission to the Tall Ships festival is £2 each day for adults without a Festival Pass and free for accompanied under-16s. To buy Festival Passes online, visit www.gloucestertallships.co.uk.
A £1 booking fee will apply to all Festival Passes bought online.




