Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Skibet"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2018,
05/2018
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Skibet |
| Ex-names: | Panope, Hamlet, Boomerang, Cimbria |
| Registered port: | Århus |
| Nation: | DK |
| Type of rigging: | KETSCH |
| Type of ship: | Nordenhusbåd, Bæltbåd |
| Year built: | 1877 |
| Yard: | R. Hansen, Dyrehaugen, DK |
| Length: | 10.40 m |
| Breadth: | 3.30 m |
| Draught: | 1.35 m |
| Sail area: | 70 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Power: | 22 PS |
| Engine: | Buhk |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 26 Feb 2022
- built in 1877 by R. Hansens in Dyrehaugen / Nyborg DK; first name "Panope", originally shorter hull and with pine planking on oak frames, rigging as Jagt, no engine.
- use in fishing and for transporting small goods between the Danish coastal towns, also as a stone fisher ship with registration StF No. 817 in harbor construction, in Esbjerg and on the Kiel Canal.
- from the 1920s as a leisure ship with ketch rigging and various names "Hamlet", "Boomerang" and Cimbria, multiple changes of ownership and change of home port.
- since 1964 in Århus, renamed "Skibet" (The Ship).
- after shipwrecked in 2014 extensively restored to the 1910 condition.
Contact:
Website (dansk, 26 Feb 2022):https://www.skibet.net/new
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