Wyvern (ship)
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The Wyvern (ex- Tatjana , ex- Havfruen ) is a Norwegian sailing yacht of the ketch type . Colin Archer was the designer of the boat, which was completed in 1897 .
In a project involving 527 European trainees, a replica of the Wyvern was built by 1992 , the Wyvern von Bremen ; At the end of 2008 she was sold to Norway and renamed Wyvern af Ålesund after her new home port .
Ship history
The Wyvern was built by Thor Martin Jensen in the Porsgrunn Baatbyggeri as a pleasure yacht for the British timber merchant Frederick Croft, who lived in Stathelle on the southern Norwegian coast . Croft, a passionate sailor who crossed the North Sea several times, named the ship launched on August 10, 1897, after the mythological dragon that was also on his family coat of arms.
In 1909 the ship was sold to Kiel and renamed Tatjana . After the First World War she returned to Norway. In 1924 she was bought by Rolf Thommessen , the editor of the newspaper Tidens Tegn , and renamed Havfruen III (" Mermaid III"). After ten years with Thommesen, the yacht was sold to Great Britain. Eventually she got into the hands of Anne and Terrence Carr, who lived on the ship for 27 years from 1947. They crossed the Atlantic twelve times on the Wyvern and rounded the earth once in the 1950s.
In 1978 the wyvern was discovered in poor condition on Ibiza and brewed back to Norway. Thanks to funds from the oil industry, the boat was restored in shipyards in Dåfjord in Stord (hull), Stavanger (equipment) and Risør (new rig ) and was donated to the Stavanger Maritime Museum on August 21, 1984. The handover took the then crown prince and later King Harald V before. Since then, the Wyvern has been sailed by a volunteer crew, has repeatedly crossed the North Sea and participated in Tall Ships' Races , where she was class and overall winner in stages.
On July 11, 2013, the Wyvern struck a leak during a Tall Ships' Race in eastern Swedish waters between Öland and Gotland . After an emergency call at 5:21 a.m., Sweden's air and sea rescue service ( Sjö och Flygräddningen ) organized a rescue by helicopter and commercial shipping diverted to the scene of the accident. All ten crew members of the wyvern could be recovered by 6.42 a.m. After that, however, three regular crew members of the Dutch sailing ship Wylde Swan , which had come to the rescue and also took part in the regatta, boarded the Wyvern to save them from sinking by pumping them. Before the yacht sank at 9.37 a.m., two of the crew members were able to escape into the water and be picked up by a rescue helicopter; a machinist from the Wylde Swan died. The Wyvern was later recovered and returned to her home port of Stavanger on August 15, 2013. The ship was then repaired in Denmark and was returned to the Stavanger Maritime Museum in July 2014 .
Dimensions and lengths
The overall length is 18.20 m and the widest part of the ship is 5.40 m. The Wyvern has a draft of 3.25 meters and a displacement of 59 tons. The mast heights are 24.00 m for the main mast and 13.00 m for the mizzen mast , the main sail has an area of 81.5 m². A 170 hp Volvo Penta diesel engine serves as the auxiliary engine.
Web links
- Wyvern (original) on wyvern-von-bremen.de ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Wyvern on the Stavanger Museum website ( 29 October 2013 memento in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
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↑ a b c KVCranner ( undated ): Colin Archer - Skøyten Wyvern ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) - Wyvern page of the Stavanger Maritime Museum (Norwegian; accessed October 28, 2013; if required, see also the English version ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
partly very similar English text (probably almost a translation): Nina Berglund: Historic vessel sinks off Sweden. NEWSinENGLISH.no from July 11, 2013, accessed October 27, 2013 - ↑ On the other hand, there is a fair deal in the event of rekke nasjonale and internal regattaers and rope towers, and from the swimming pools one class and a collection of regatta tappers in tall ships' races. Colin Archer - Skøyten Wyvern ( October 29, 2013 memento in the Internet Archive ) - Stavanger Maritime Museum's Wyvern page (accessed October 28, 2013)
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↑ Sjöfartsverket: Större segelbåt tar in vatten i Östersjön Wyvern sank this morning ( Memento from July 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , press release from Sail Training International, July 11, 2013.
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↑ Stavanger Aftenblad: "Wyvern" har sunket
Stavanger Aftenblad: Navnet på den omkomne er frigitt - ^ Wyvern hjem igjen til Stavanger. In: Dagbladet . July 11, 2014, accessed March 21, 2017 (Norwegian).
- ^ The Colin Archer yacht Wyvern ( October 29, 2013 memento in the Internet Archive ) , Stavanger Maritime Museum.