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Showing posts with label Tall Ships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tall Ships. Show all posts

Friday 1 March 2024

Lady of Avenel



















 The Lady of Avenel is a 102ft Brigantine square rigged ship, with 12 guest berths.

 She sails from Scotland, Ireland, and  England.

The photographs were taken at Oban.

Monday 31 July 2023

Kapitan Borchardt










 Kapitan Borchardt is a iron Polish 3-masted schooner named after Karol Olgierd Borchardt (1905-1986), a Polish writer and captain of the Polish Merchant Marine. She’s the oldest sailing (and training) ship flying the Polish flag. She was launched in the Netherlands in 1918 at the J.J. Pattje & Zoon Waterhuizen shipyard, and christened as Nora, and initially used as an ocean-going cargo.

Due to numerous changes of ownership, she later bore the names Harlingen, Möwe, Vadder Gerrit and In Spé. In 1934, the ship's bow was destroyed in a collision on the Thames with a Dutch motor vessel : The Pinguin.

During the Second W.W. she was used by the Kriegsmarine as a training ship for the U-Boat school located in Gotenhafen. At the end of the war she was towed to Travemüde in 1945, and went back to Netherland in 1953, and later as a cargo sailship to Sweden.

Between 1983 and 1989 she underwent a general restoration to be converted into a cruising/training sailboat under the name Najaden. Equipped with 14 cabins, the schooner sails under Swedish flag and was based in Stockholm. During this period cruises are organized in the Baltic Sea1 from April to October. She carries a max. of 80 passengers per day and 24 on cruise.

On August 30, 2011, the Najaden left Nynashamn in Sweden, to join her new owner, the company Skłodowscy Yachting, under Polish flag. She was christened Kapitan Borchardt on October 8, 2011, in the city of Gdańsk, her new home port.

Photographed at Ardrossan Harbour.

Information courtesy of Ship Nostalgia.

Wednesday 2 November 2022

Flying Dutchman

 










This former herring drifter first set sail in 1903 under the name “KW 33” it was restored as an employment creation project before its new owner carried out renovation work during the winter of 2003/2004, turning it into the “Flying Dutchman”, a luxury schooner.

She is seen here at Oban and Tobermory. 

Wednesday 12 October 2022

La Malouine




















La Malouine is a twin masted French Brigantine tall ship, registered in the Port of Dumfries.

Seen here on Nobles slip at Girvan receiving a new pain job.

Built in Gdansk, Poland, the ship was converted into a brigantine by the Dutch designer Olivier van Meer in 1992, and, named ‘Willem’, enjoyed a career in the charter business at the Baltic Sea, carrying sailing guests, taking part in match races and participating in many sailing ship events. In 2010 it was sold to a French owner and re-named ‘La Malouine’. 

Information courtesy of Galina Walls.