Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Svartlöga"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2016,
05/2016
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2016,
05/2016
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2017,
05/2017
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Svartlöga |
| Registered port: | Århus |
| Nation: | DK |
| Type of rigging: | KETSCH |
| Type of ship: | Bermudaketsch |
| Year built: | 1964 |
| Yard: | Karlskrona, SWE |
| Overall length: | 32.00 m |
| Length (hull): | 24.00 m |
| Breadth: | 6.65 m |
| Draught: | 3.10 m |
| Sail area: | 310 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Power: | 380 PS |
| Engine: | Volvo |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 17 Feb 2022
- built in 1964 in Karlskrona at the Naval Shipyard in a series of 6 ships, used as a minesweeper for the Swedish Navy.
- sold for private use in the mid-1990s.
- 2005 brought to Denmark by Henrik Grønborg, conversion to a Bermuda ketch with the purpose of using her on worldwide adventure trips, equipment with a ship engine (380 hp Volvo).
- capsized and sunk on August 25th, 2018 in a thunderstorm off Harlingen, NL.