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This beautiful vessel arrived in Durban on 28 February and stayed
for a few days. She was built in Gdansk in 1989 and is currently a
training ship for the Academy of Navigation in Odessa and also has
accomodation for 62 passengers who can elect either to help in the
running of the ship or to relax and do nothing. The STS
Khersones is 108 metres long, 14 metres wide, has a draft of 6,80
metres and a mast which is 51,5 metres high. She can carry 26 sails
with a total surface area 2270 m2 and can average a speed
of 16 knots under good conditions.
The Khersones or Chersones is a Ukrainian
three-mast tall ship, a full rigged ship. It was built in 1989 in
Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland, in a series of six sister ships (among
which also the Mir). The ship is named after the city of Khersones
on the North coast of the Black Sea.
Today Khersones is a training ship for the Kerch Marine
Technological Institute. Like many Eastern European training ships
she also takes on board paying passengers. She partakes in many
windjammer regattas.
Dimensions:
Length: 109.6 m Width: 14 m Height: 2770 mē Crew:
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