Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 16 August 2009 - Tall ships leave Belfast following the four-day festival which finished this morning. their was a 40-strong fleet in at Belfast Lough. The festival in the docks included free activities, concerts, fireworks, continental markets and funfairs. The Tall Ships are called into Belfast as part of a race across the Atlantic and back, which is staged every eight to 10 years. They left Halifax, Nova Scotia, last month on a trip which began in Vigo in Spain, before calling at Tenerife, Bermuda and Charleston and Boston in the US. Picture by Mark Pearce / Press Eye.