Khersones (ship)
 Khersones at SAIL Amsterdam 2005 (Photograph by Dirk van der Made) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Ukraine | |
| Owner: | Kerch Marine Technological Institute |
| Builder: | Lenin Shipyard, Gdańsk |
| Launched: | 1989 |
| Status: | Bareboat charterer, Inmaris Windjammer Chartering GmbH, Hamburg |
| Notes: | Home port, Kerch |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Russian Maritime Register Special Purpose Ship !A |
| Length: | 108.6 m (356 ft) |
| Beam: | 14 m (46 ft) |
| Draft: | 6,8 m |
| Propulsion: | sail, 2 1,000 hp. auxiliary engines |
| Sail plan: | 3-masted ship rig; sail area 2,770 m2 (29,800 sq ft), 26 sails,[1] height 49.5 m (162 ft)[2] |
| Complement: | 42, including 2 teachers; 72 cadets; 91 trainees/passengers, max. 250 for day sails |
| Notes: | Speed under sail, 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph).; under power, 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph).[1] |
The Khersones or Chersones (Ukrainian: Херсонес) is a Ukrainian three-mast tall ship, a full rigged ship. It was built in 1989 in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland, in a series of six sister ships (among which also the Mir), after the designs of Polish naval architect Zygmunt Choreń. The ship is named after the city of Kherson on the North coast of the Black Sea.
Today Khersones is a training ship for the Kerch Marine Technological Institute. Like many Eastern European training ships she also takes on board paying passengers. She partakes in many windjammer regattas.[2]
See also
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Khersones (ship, 1989). |
- 1 2 "Die Khersones, Schiffsdaten". Inmaris Group, Windjammer Cruising Worldwide. 2006. Retrieved Apr 8, 2010.
External links
Khersones on the River Mersey
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