Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Kapitan Glowacki"

Photos of the sailing ship:

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Kapitan Glowacki, Volker Gries, Sail Brest / Cutty Sark 2002 , 07/2002

Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Sail Brest / Cutty Sark 2002,
07/2002

Kapitan Glowacki, Volker Gries, Tall Ships Race 2013, Szczecin, POL , 08/2013

Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Tall Ships Race 2013, Szczecin, POL,
08/2013

Technical data of the sailing ship:

Name:Kapitan Glowacki
Ex-names:Henryk Rutkowski
Registered port:Gdansk
Nation:POL
Type of rigging:BRIGANTINE
Year built:1944/1986
Yard:Swinemünde
Overall length:29.70 m
Length (hull):24.30 m
Breadth:6.43 m
Draught:3.20 m
Sail area:338 m2
Ship's hull:Holz / Wood
Power:121 PS
Engine:Delfin

Portrait of the sailing ship:

Last update: 19 Oct 2002

  • built as a patrol cutter for Germany's navy, she was converted to a sailing yacht after the war.
  • taken as reparations by Poland, she was rigged as a gaff ketch in Gdynia.
  • used by the association for sport and technology to train deep-sea fishermen.
  • laid up between 1976 and 1984 because of economic reasons. A general overhaul was not possible at this time and she was rebuilt as a brigantine in 1984.
  • entered service again in 1986 and made trips with youth groups, clubs with no age restriction and young offenders.
  • participation in the Tall Ships Race from Plymouth to Amsterdam in 1990 and after 1989 often sailed in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race, i.e. in 1995 Edinburgh-Bremerhaven-Frederikshaven-Amsterdam-Zeebrügge and 2002 in the Atlantic.

Last tracked position of the ship:

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Last tracked position of the ship Kapitan Glowacki

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: 264 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
(ex-Name Henryk Rutkowski)

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: 114 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
(ex-Name Henryk Rutkowski)

Giancarlo Schiavoni
"Unter Segeln, die grossen Windjammer auf den Weltmeeren"
Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 1994 ISBN: 3-7822-0605-3
(ital. Originalausgabe: "La nave a vela")
Page: 122 Source with picture
(ex-Name Henryk Rutkowski)

Anthony Churchill
"Sail to Adventure"
ISBN: 0 948337 05 2
Page: 212, 214 Source with picture
(kurzer beschreibender Text, als "Lowacki")

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

Thaddeus Koza
"Tall Ships - the Fleet of the 21th Century"
Tide-Mark Press, East Hartford 2000 ISBN: 1-55949-551-0
(http://www.tallshipsinternational.com/)
Page: 104 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 2002 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(10. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage)
Page: 295 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Peter Rath
"Hanse Sail Rostock - Wo man sich begegnet"
Hanse Sail Verein Rostock e.V. 2005
(http://www.hansesail.com/)
Page: 106 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data