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''HMS Surprise'' is a modern tall ship, built at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada as ''Rose'' in 1970 to a Phil Bolger design based on the original 18th-century British Admiralty drawings. She is based on , a 20 gun sixth-rate frigate built in 1757. ''Rose'' was built at the Smith and Rhuland shipyard in Lunenburg, a yard which had established a reputation for large and successful replicas such as HMS ''Bounty'' in 1960 and ''Bluenose II'' in 1963. The ship was inspected and certified by the United States Coast Guard. She spent the first ten years of her life in Newport, Rhode Island sailing in Newport Harbor and as a dockside attraction. In 1985, already in serious disrepair, she was purchased by Kaye Williams and brought to Bridgeport, Connecticut, and operated as a sail training vessel in the 1980s and 1990s, run by the HMS Rose Foundation based in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Although she is known by the national prefix HMS, meaning Her (or His) Majesty's Ship, she is not technically entitled to it as she does not hold a royal warrant. She was sold to the 20th Century Fox film studio in 2001 to be used in the making of the film ''Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'', in which she portrayed the Royal Navy frigate with a story based on several of the books by Patrick O'Brian. After the film was complete, the ship was leased and then purchased by the Maritime Museum of San Diego which has restored her to sailing condition as of September 2007.〔("Reviving Surprise"(pdf) David L. Kolthoff, P.E. )〕 The ship has officially been re-registered as ''HMS Surprise'' in honor of her role in the film. She sails several times a year, often with the museum's other tall ships, the schooner ''Californian'' and the 1863 barque ''Star of India''.〔(SDMM article on ''Surprise'' )〕 In 2010, she portrayed HMS ''Providence'' in the Disney adventure film ''Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides''.〔http://img835.imageshack.us/slideshow/webplayer.php?id=lb1f.jpg〕 In 1991, The Connecticut General Assembly passed "An Act Concerning the H.M.S. Rose" in which the ship was commissioned as a vessel of the Connecticut Naval Militia. The act stated that the H.M.S. Rose Foundation was responsible for maintaining the ship, but when the ship was sold to 20th Century Fox, the statute was not repealed and is still in effect.〔(CGS 27-5 - Public Act 91-31 )〕 ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Surprise (replica ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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