Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Zebu"

Technical data of the sailing ship:

Name:Zebu
Ex-names:Ziba
Registered port:Liverpool
Nation:GBR
Type of rigging:BRIGANTINE
Year built:1938/1984
Yard:A.B.Holms, RÅÅ, SWE
Overall length:31.00 m
Length (hull):21.90 m
Breadth:6.10 m
Draught:2.30 m
Sail area:395 m2
Ship's hull:Holz / Wood
Power:84 PS
Engine:Gardener 6LW

Portrait of the sailing ship:

Last update: 04 Oct 2015

  • sailed as a cargo sailing ship transporting wood, salt and grain in the Baltic Sea until 1950 and then used as a motor vessel.
  • rebuilt as a ketch for charter trips between 1972 and 1980. A first unsucccessful attempt to go around the world was abandoned due to damage to the ship.
  • conversion to a schooner brig in 1982.
  • successful circumnavigation Operation Raleigh 1984-1988 ( 60,000 sm ) combined with excursions, archeological expeditions and meteorological measurements.
  • voyages with different kinds of passengers based in Southampton.
  • since 1988 registerred in Liverpool, owner and operator is the Mersey Heritage Trust.
  • featured on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are programme in 2008, when interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen sailed on the vessel.
  • sunk in Sept. 2015 in Liverpool's Albert Dock, preparations to raise her again.

Literature for further reading:

We recommend the following references for your further research of the ship. The references marked with have been included in the generation of the ship profile on this page.

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 1997 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(9. aktualisierte Auflage)
Page: 167 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Beken of Cowes, Eric C. Abranson
"Segelschiffe der Welt"
Edition Maritim 1995 ISBN: 3-89225-314-5
(engl. Originalausgabe: "Sailing Ships of the World", 1992, Thomas Reed Publications Ltd.)
Page: 206 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

American Sail Training Association (ASTA)
"Sail Tall Ships! A Directory of Sail Training and Adventure at Sea"
2000 ISBN: 0-9636483-5-7
(12th Edition)
Page: 267 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact

"Faszination Segelschiffe"
Ein interaktives Informationssystem auf CD-ROM 1998
(2. überarbeitete Auflage)
Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 2002 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(10. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage)
Page: 181 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data