The hotel ship Barken Viking

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Barken Viking © Pär Henning

Barken Viking © Pär Henning

The Viking (better known by the ship type as a prefix, Barken Viking) is a four-masted steel barque, built in 1906 by Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is reported to be the biggest sailing ship ever built in Scandinavia. Viking was originally built as a sail training ship for the rapidly growing Danish merchant fleet. At that time, seaworthiness and cargo capacity were given top priority. One day in July 1909, while carrying a full cargo of wheat from Australia, Captain Niels Clausen recorded a speed record in the ship’s log: 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph).

In 1929 she was registered under the Finnish flag, and joined the Åland-based Erikson fleet of tall ships. She was part of Erikson’s fleet until 1950. She was about to be scrapped in the late 1940s, but was eventually saved by the Swedish government in 1950 and moored in Gothenburg. Because of the low bridges that separate the tall ship from the open sea, it is unlikely she ever will sail the open seas again.

Lilla Bommen - Barken Viking © flickr.com - Mikael Miettinen/cc-by-2.5 Barken Viking at Lilla Bommen © Nol Aders/cc-by-sa-3.0 Barken Viking at Lilla Bommen © Floris Daelemans/cc-by-sa-3.0 Barken Viking at Lilla Bommen © Albin Olsson/cc-by-sa-3.0 Barken Viking at Lilla Bommen © W.carter/cc-by-sa-4.0 Barken Viking © Pär Henning
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Lilla Bommen - Barken Viking © flickr.com - Mikael Miettinen/cc-by-2.5
She participated in several of the Great Grain Races from Victoria, Australia to Falmouth, Cornwall. Barken Viking won the Grain Race of 1948. David James was an apprentice on her voyage around the world in 1937-38, which is described in his biography.

Viking came to Gothenburg, Sweden permanently in 1950, as a home for various shipping organizations, and later became a school of seamanship. Today she is moored at Lilla Bommen as hotel “Barken Viking”. The owner is ESS Hotell AB.

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