Pallada (ship, 1989)
The full ship Pallada ( Russian Паллада ) is a Russian training sailing ship with the home port Vladivostok .
It was built in 1989 as the fifth ship in a series of sister ships at the Polish Stocznia Gdanska shipyard in Gdansk according to plans by the Polish sailing ship designer Zygmunt Choreń .
The Pallada is owned by the Far Eastern State Technical University of Fisheries (Dalryba) in Vladivostok.
The Pallada is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest sailing ship in the world. On July 30, 2007, she ran through the Formosa Strait into the East China Sea at 18.7 knots during a tropical typhoon .
With its dimensions (length over all = 108.6 m), the Pallada is one of the largest sailing ships in the world and was named after the Greek goddess " Pallas Athene ".
Sister ships
The sister ships of the Pallada built at the Gdańsk shipyard are Dar Młodzieży , Khersones , Druzhba , Mir and Nadeschda .
Footnotes
- ↑ - РОССИЙСКИЙ ПАРУСНИК «ПАЛЛАДА» УСТАНОВИЛ НОВЫЙ РЕКОРД СКОРОСТИ (Russian) ( Memento from October 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ - Russian Sail Training Ship “Pallada” Established New World's Speed Record Under Sail
