Sail Training.

Young crew get to grips with square sails on the foremast yards of TS Royalist.

TS Royalist is a sail training ship owned and operated by the Marine Society and Sea Cadets of United Kingdom.

Launched by Princess Anne in 1971 over the years it has provided offshore experience to over 30,000 young people.

The brig is due to be decommissioned later this year and it's as yet unnamed replacement is currently being built in Spain!.

Francis Drake will be spinning in his grave.