The barque Europa

3 February 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Tall ships, Yacht of the Month Reading Time:  4 minutes

Figurehead © flickr.com - Jose Luis Cernadas Iglesias

Figurehead © flickr.com – Jose Luis Cernadas Iglesias

Sailing ship 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.  read more…

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