The Sir Winston Churchill is a former sailing training ship built in 1966 in Hessle , Yorkshire by Richard Dunston Ltd. was built. She was sold in 2000 and currently serves as a private yacht .
history
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The Sir Winston Churchill was designed by Camper & Nicholson and built in 1966 to take part in the Tall Ships' Race . The project was sponsored by Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh . The construction of the ship was partly financed with publicly raised funds and the Sail Training Association raised about half the amount needed. The ship was named after Winston Churchill , the two-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ; Churchill had died the year before the ship was built. The rigging was intentionally designed to accommodate all major types of sails . A sister ship, the Malcolm Miller was launched in 1968. The main differences between the two ships were the cabin doors. These were semicircular at the top on Sir Winston Churchill and rectangular on Malcolm Miller .
The Sir Winston Churchill took part with a pure women's team at the 1972 held Tall Ships' Race. In 1976, the ship took part in a trans-Atlantic regatta that took place on the occasion of the bicentenary of the United States' declaration of independence . As a sailing training ship, the Sir Winston Churchill was replaced by the Prince William in 2000 and sold by its owner at the time, the Tall Ships Youth Trust . The last trip for the Foundation ended in Portsmouth on December 2, 2000 .
The Sir Winston Churchill was sold to a company based on the Isle of Man . She initially continued to serve as a sailing training ship, but with only 20 cadets instead of 38 previously. The ship was completely refurbished and in 2002 the ship received two new diesel engines from Iveco , with which the previous Ford Mermaid engines were replaced.
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