The barque Europa
Tuesday, 3 February 2015 - 09:59 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa Category/Kategorie: Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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Europa is a steel-hulled barque from in the Netherlands. Originally it was a German
lightship , named
Senator Brockes and built in 1911 at the
H.C. Stülcken & Sohn shipyard in
Hamburg . Until 1977, it was in use by the
German Federal Coast Guard as a lightship on the
river Elbe . In 1985 a Dutchman bought the vessel (or what was left of it), and in 1994 she was fully restored as a barque, a three mast rigged ship, and retrofitted as a special-purpose sail-training ship.
Europa cruises worldwide and accepts paying voyage crew (trainees) for short or long trip segments, including ocean crossings, Sail Training Association races, and annual voyages to Antarctica , and between South Georgia , Tristan da Cunha , and Cape Town .
Barque Europa at Belfast Lough © geograph.org.uk - Aubrey Dale
In 2002 she rounded the
Cape Horn . In 2010 she participated in
Velas Sudamerica 2010 , an historical Latin American tour by eleven tall ships to celebrate the
bicentennial of the first national governments of Argentina and
Chile .
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