As of 2026-07-08, Eos tops the list with 30 km/h.
- #1 Eos — 30 km/h
three-masted Bermuda rigged schooner
Eos is a three-masted Bermuda-rigged schooner. The ship is one of the largest private sailing yachts in the world, and as of 2009 was owned by movie and media billionaire Barry Diller, husband of fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg. According to a 2007 article in Harper's Bazaar, Eos features a figurehead of von Fürstenberg sculpted by Anh Duong. Its overall length measures approximately 305 feet (92.92m). Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #2 Thomas W. Lawson — 30 km/h
seven-masted, steel-hulled schooner
Thomas W. Lawson was a seven-masted, steel-hulled schooner built for the Pacific trade, but used primarily to haul coal and oil along the East Coast of the United States. Named for copper baron Thomas W. Lawson, a Boston millionaire, stock-broker, book author, and president of the Boston Bay State Gas Co., she was launched in 1902 as the largest schooner and largest sailing vessel without an auxiliary engine ever built. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #3 SS City of Rome — 30 km/h
British passenger ship, active 1881–1902
City of Rome was a British ocean liner, built by the Barrow Ship Building Company for the Inman Line to be the largest and fastest liner on the North Atlantic route. Though not achieving the requested specifications due to design compromise, and so returned to Barrow-in-Furness after only six voyages, she is considered one of the most beautiful steamships built, with her classic clipper bow and sail rigging illustrating the transitional period of sail to steam. The Anchor Line managed her on... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #4 Wyoming — 30 km/h
wooden six-masted schooner
Wyoming was an American wooden six-masted schooner built and completed in 1909 by the Percy & Small Shipyard in Bath, Maine. With a length of 450 ft (140 m) from jib-boom tip to spanker boom tip, Wyoming was the largest known wooden ship ever built. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #5 Hohenzollern — 29 km/h
paddle steamer (1880)
source Wikidata - #6 Rainbow Warrior II — 22 km/h
former Greenpeace ship
Rainbow Warrior was a three-masted schooner most notable for service with the environmental protection organization Greenpeace. She was built to replace the original Rainbow Warrior that the French intelligence service (DGSE) bombed in 1985 in the Port of Auckland, New Zealand, which sank the ship and killed photographer Fernando Pereira. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #7 Tara — 19 km/h
schooner built in 1989
Tara is a French sailing ship used in a series of oceanic research expeditions. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #8 J. R. Tolkien — 15 km/h
schooner built in 1963
J.R. Tolkien is a gaff-topsail schooner of Netherlands registry used for passenger cruises on the Baltic Sea and elsewhere in European waters. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #9 Barão de Lazarim — 15 km/h
gunboat of the Portuguese Navy
source Wikidata - #10 Eye of the Wind — 15 km/h
schooner
Eye of the Wind is a brigantine converted in the 1970s from the topsail schooner Friedrich built in 1911 at the C. H. Lühring shipyard in Brake, Germany. Read more on Wikipedia.
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