Kaliakra (ship)
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Kaliakra at the pier in Varna (2014)
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The Kaliakra is the sailing training ship of the Bulgarian merchant navy .
The ship
Kaliakra is one of three sister ships that were built for training and education purposes: The Pogoria of the “Iron Shackle ” association is used to train officers of the Polish merchant navy, the Iskra is a sailing training ship of the Polish navy .
The three-masted sailing ship was built in 1984 according to plans by the Polish designer Zygmunt Choren in the “Paris Commune” shipyard in Gdynia (shell construction) and the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk , Poland . The hull , masts and standing rigging are made of steel, the running rigging is partly made of steel and partly of textile.
task
The sailing training ship usually takes on board 34 students from the Varna Naval Academy , future officers of the Bulgarian merchant navy, who learn traditional seamanship on a large barquentine . These training trips in the Black and Mediterranean usually last four to five weeks.
If the Kaliakra is in the summer in their home port of Varna, and tourists on short sailing games along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast can be used as sailors ride. Members of the royal family and heads of state as well as the leaders of the international sailing school associations have already been welcomed on board.
Surname
Kaliakra got its name from the legendary Bulgarian girl Kaliakra, who is said to have preferred death to violent conversion to Islam under the Turkish occupation . This girl is said to have thrown herself into the sea from the rocks of Cape Kaliakra together with 39 other women .
Regattas
In addition to its actual task, the Kaliakra also takes part in regattas:
- 1986: Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race : the Kaliakra took first place in both races and came third with a time correction
- 1987: Cutty Sark '87; Baltic regatta
- 1988: Cutty Sark '88; Baltic regatta
- 1989: NL Sailing School Association ( STAN )
- 1990: Cutty Sark School Ship Frigate '90
- 1992: Grand Regatta Columbus 92-Quincentenary (Great Columbus Regatta '92)
- 1996: Cutty Sark Mediterranean regatta: the Kaliakra was able to take on board the silver cup and plaque for first place in class A.
- 1997: Cutty Sark '97
- 1998: Cutty Sark '98: Tall Ship Race Loyalty Price
- 2001: Tall Ship '01: 1st place in the first stage
- 2002: Cutty Sark '02
literature
- Otmar Schäuffelen, Herbert Böhm: The last great sailing ships , Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3191-8 .
Web links
- Travel reports, Kaliakra et al. ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )