Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Poseidon"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2013,
10/2013
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Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2015,
10/2015
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2022,
10/2022
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2022,
10/2022
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2022,
10/2022
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Harlingen-Terschelling 2023,
10/2023
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Harlingen-Terschelling 2023,
10/2023
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Harlingen-Terschelling 2023,
10/2023
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Poseidon |
| Ex-names: | Zuid-Holland |
| Registered port: | Harlingen |
| Nation: | NL |
| Type of rigging: | KETSCH |
| Type of ship: | 2-Mast Klipper |
| Year built: | 1903 |
| Yard: | Duyvendijk, Papendrecht, NL |
| Length: | 36.00 m |
| Breadth: | 6.30 m |
| Draught: | 1.30 m |
| Sail area: | 440 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
| Power: | 180 PS |
| Engine: | DAF |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 11 Mar 2014
- built in 1903 at the shipyard Duyvendijk in Papendrecht, NL for Swets family; first name "Zuid-Holland".
- used as cargo ship under sails, transport of building materials for the embarkments of the Dutch province Zeeland, transport of stone and coal from Germany, transport of sugar.
- 1956 conversion to a motor ship, until 1997 usage as a freighter at the inland waters and big rivers.
- 1997 sold by Theo Swets to Frans and Frouke Fischer.
- restoration as sailing klipper and conversion to a passenger vessel, renamed the "Poseidon".
- frequent participation in sailing events for Dutch flat-bottom ships, i.e. in the Brandarisrace between Harlingen and Terschelling.