Polar (ship, 1977)
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The Polar is a schooner yacht built in 1977 and initially sailed under the German flag as Anne Linde . The Portuguese Navy acquired the ship in 1983 and has been using it as one of three sailing training vessels since 1985 .
Construction and technical data
The ship is a scaled-down replica of the American schooner yacht America from 1851, which won the America's Cup , which was later named after her . It was built in 1977 at the Phoenix BV shipyard in Westerbroek near Rotterdam and named Anne Linde . It is 29.90 meters long, 4.85 meters wide, 2.85 meters deep and is measured at 77 tons. You can set up to five sails of 304 m² in your rig . Under sail it reaches a speed of 9.5 knots, under engine - a British Leyland - diesel engine with 214 PS - 9.0 nodes. The crew in the Portuguese Navy consists of seven officers and men and up to 12 trainees.
history
From the charter ship Anne Linde to an exchange object
After the delivery, the Anne Linde was registered in Viersen on the Lower Rhine. For the period from 1977 to 1982 it is only known that the ship was used for charter trips in the Mediterranean.
In 1983 the association "Windjammer for Hamburg" acquired Anne Linde . She kept her name until October 1983, when the club used the ship as an exchange object. In 1978 he became aware of the former Rickmer Rickmers , which was run down in the Portuguese Navy, and in 1983 he exchanged the Anne Linde for the tall ship.
Sail training ship Polar of the Portuguese Navy
The Portuguese Navy took over their new ship on October 21, 1983 and, after a long renovation phase at the H. Parry & Son shipyard, put it into service in April 1985 as NRP Polar with the registration A 5204 . As a training ship, she replaced the former royal yacht Sirius . The name Polar is based on the Polarstern , which is used for orientation during navigation. After the Sagres and the Creoula , she is the third training ship in the Portuguese Navy.
The Portuguese Navy primarily uses the ship for the training of junior seafaring officers. The officer candidates are trained for management tasks and must prove themselves in these functions. In addition to seven officers and men, up to twelve trainees are part of the crew for this task. There are also representative tasks, and the ship is also used for tests for water sports enthusiasts.
The Polar undertook its first training voyage in April 1985, which led to Spain to attend the naval school, the Escuela Naval Militar, in Marín . In 1992, Polar accompanied a fleet of 109 sailing boats from Portugal to Expo 92 in Spain. In 1994 she made another trip to Tangier in Morocco.
literature
- Otmar Schäuffelen, Herbert Böhm: The last great sailing ships , Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3191-8 .
Web links
- NRP Polar on the Portuguese Navy website, accessed November 1, 2018
- Photo of NRP Polar on shipspotting.com, accessed November 1, 2018
- General information on Polar at we-sail.com, accessed on November 1, 2018
- Polar story and photos at ancruzeiros.pt, accessed on November 1, 2018
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Schäuffelen, p. 313
- ↑ NRP Polar website of the Portuguese Navy
- ↑ a b General information on Polar , we-sail.com
- ↑ a b c d e story and photos of the Polar , ancruzeiros.pt
- ↑ NRP is the abbreviation for Navio da República Portuguesa and the name prefix of Portuguese warships. NRP means "Ship of the Portuguese Republic".