Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Vilma"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brest/Douarnenez 2004,
07/2004
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brest/Douarnenez 2004,
07/2004
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Les Tonnerres de Brest 2012,
07/2012
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Les Tonnerres de Brest 2012,
07/2012
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Vilma |
| Ex-names: | Mias RI100, Inge, Inge Wejse, Anna Katherine, Wilma SD112, Cee Kay LL36 |
| Registered port: | Beaumaris, Bangor |
| Nation: | GBR |
| Type of rigging: | TOPPSEGELSCHONER |
| Year built: | 1934 |
| Yard: | Bronsodde Shipyard, Vejle, DK |
| Overall length: | 19.81 m |
| Length (hull): | 14.32 m |
| Breadth: | 4.42 m |
| Draught: | 2.00 m |
| Sail area: | 105 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Power: | 150 PS |
| Engine: | Gardner 6LXB |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 02 Dec 2014
- built at the Bronsodde shipyard in Vejle, Denmark in 1934, first name was "Mias", registerred as RI 100 in Hvide Sande, DK; used in the fishery by Jens Viggo Iversen.
- 1946 sold to Niels Christian Andersen, renamed the "Inge", 1947 renamed the "Inge Wejse", 1962 renamed the "Anna Katherine"; renamed the "Vilma" in 1964.
- 1979 sold to William Rarity of Sunderland, GBR; renamed the "Wilma"; registerred as SD112.
- 1987 sold to John Watson of Maryport; renamed the "Cee Kay", registerred in Liverpool as LL36.
- 1996 bought by shipwright Scott H Metcalfe of Bangor, North Wales, GBR who works for his Waterfront Marine ship service company specialised in the repair and maintenance of wooden sailing ships; renamed the "Vilma" again and registerred as commercial yacht in 1998; complete overhaul of the ship including considerable hull work, construction of a new deck, and conversion into a topsail schooner with single square topsail.