Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Brigantes"
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Brigantes |
| Ex-names: | Meta, Onice |
| Registered port: | Port Victoria |
| Base port: | Trapani/ITA |
| Nation: | SYC |
| Type of rigging: | BRIGANTINE |
| Year built: | 1911 |
| Yard: | C. Lühring, Brake/Hammelwarden, GER |
| Overall length: | 38.25 m |
| Breadth: | 7.46 m |
| Sail area: | 495 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Eisen / Iron |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 19 Mar 2023
- built in 1911 at the German shipyard C. Lühring in Brake/Hammelwarden, first name "Meta", used as a merchant ship on the North Sea and Baltic Sea.
- handed over to France in 1920 as reparations, equipped with the first ship's engine.
- registered in Italy in Viareggio and Livorno in the 1930s.
- converted to a pure motor cargo ship in the 1950s, renamed "Onice", last uses started from Sicily in Italy, finally laid up in Trapani.
- 2016 takeover by new owners who started a restoration at the Daromarci shipyard as merchant sailing ship, launched again in 1919 after hull overhaul, renamed the "Brigantes", ongoing work on equipment and rigging.
- plans to transport under sails fair traded products like coffee, cocoa or rum between America and Europe (Mediterranean).
Contact:
Website (italiano/deutsch, 19 Mar 2023):https://brigantes.eu/new
SV Brigantes: project for cargo sailing, some history, data and photos of the ship, contact