Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Kruzenshtern"

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Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Rostock , 05/1999

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Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Rostock , 05/1999

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Volker Gries,
Rostock,
05/1999

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2001 , 08/2001

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2001,
08/2001

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2003 , 08/2003

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2003,
08/2003

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2003 , 08/2003

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2003,
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Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Sail Travemünde / Cutty Sark 2003 , 08/2003

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Volker Gries,
Sail Travemünde / Cutty Sark 2003,
08/2003

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2010 , 08/2010

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2010,
08/2010

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2010 , 08/2010

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2010,
08/2010

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2010 , 08/2010

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2010,
08/2010

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2011 , 08/2011

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2011,
08/2011

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2012 , 08/2012

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2012,
08/2012

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2013 , 08/2013

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2013,
08/2013

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2013 , 08/2013

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2013,
08/2013

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2013 , 08/2013

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2013,
08/2013

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2013 , 08/2013

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2013,
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Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2013 , 08/2013

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2013,
08/2013

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2015 , 08/2015

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Hanse Sail Rostock 2015,
08/2015

Kruzenshtern, Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2016 , 08/2016

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Volker Gries,
Hanse Sail Rostock 2016,
08/2016

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Technical data of the sailing ship:

Name:Kruzenshtern
Ex-names:Padua
Registered port:Kaliningrad
Nation:RUS
Type of rigging:4-MAST-BARK
Year built:1926
Yard:J.C. Tecklenborg, Bremerhaven/Geestemünde
Overall length:114.50 m
Length (hull):104.30 m
Breadth:14.05 m
Draught:7.17 m
Sail area:3655 m2
Ship's hull:Stahl / Steel
Engine:Burmeister & Wain

Portrait of the sailing ship:

Last update: 15 Nov 2003

  • built at the shipyard of J.C. Tecklenborg at Geestemünde as the last four-masted cargo bark in 1926, launched on 24 June 1926 under the name "Padua", she was the last of the famous fleet of "Flying P-liners" of the Hamburg shipping company of F. Laeisz.
  • sailed a total of eight voyages round the Horn to Chile between August 1926 and February 1932 loaded a cargo of nitrate in most cases.
  • was laid up then until the end of 1933, put back in service with a government subsidy and sailed in October 1933 for Wallaroo, South Australia, to load grain consigned to Avonmouth, England. after another voyage to South Australia she sailed 4 voyages once more to Chile, last voyage as a cargo ship from Bremerhaven in October 1938 to Chile and Australia ending in Glasgow in July 1939.
  • laid up in Flensburg during the war, towed from Hamburg to Swinemünde in January 1946 to be handed over to the Soviet Union as a war prize, renamed the "Kruzenshtern".
  • remained in harbour until 1959, refit in 1959-61, she was fitted with her first auxiliary engines.
  • 1961-65 she conducted hydrographic and oceanographic surveys in the Atlantic, West Indies and Mediterranean while training naval cadets.
  • transferred to the USSR Ministry of Fisheries and homeported at Riga in 1965. sailtraining ship for seamen and officers for the fishing fleet.
  • 1968-72 fitted with new engines and her poop was extended to merge with the midship Liverpool house.
  • 1974 the "Kruzenshtern" and the "Tovarishch" were the first Soviet ships that entered an international Tall Ships Race, took part in the American Bicentennial transatlantic race in 1976 and since then she is a regular participant in other Tall Ships Races and tall ship events in the West, including the 1992 Columbus Regatta and Tall Ships 2000.
  • 1980 change of the registered port to Tallinn, Estonia, 1991 change of the registered port to Kaliningrad, Russia, operated by the Kaliningrad Marine College, Russian Ministry of Fishery since 1992
  • the ship sailed around the world in 1995-96 in the steps of Johann Adam von Krusenstern who gave his name to the ship. The voyage under Captain Oleg Sedov covered 34,242 nautical miles and took 238 days including the journeys around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, Route: Kaliningrad - Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Rio de Janeiro - Kap Horn - Tahiti - Moorea - Hawaii - Tokyo - Wladiwostok - Singapur - Kap der Guten Hoffnung - Kapstadt - Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Kaliningrad
  • Johann Adam von Krusenstern (1770-1846), a Russian-Baltic seaman and traveller, captained the first Russian sailing expedition around the world.

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Last tracked position of the ship Kruzenshtern

Contact:

Website (po russki, 17 Apr 2011):
http://bffsa.com/kruzenshtern.aspx
Kruzenshtern: website of the ship at the website of the Baltic Fishing Fleet State Academy, Kaliningrad, Russia

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.

Ollivier Puget, Jean-Noël Darde
"Partir sur les Grand Voiliers - Le guide pour embarquer"
Guides Balland 2000 ISBN: 2-7158-1277-9
Page: 104 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 1997 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(9. aktualisierte Auflage)
Page: 280 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: 124 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Ollivier Puget
"Windjammer der Welt"
Edition Maritim 1999 ISBN: 3-89225-396-X
(franz. Originalausgabe: "Les Plus Beaux Voiliers Du Monde", 1997)
Page: 107 Source with picture Source with history

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: 133 Source with picture

Anthony Churchill
"Sail to Adventure"
ISBN: 0 948337 05 2
Page: 97 Source with picture Source with history Quelle with contact

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: 160 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 picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact

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: 107 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Claus Rothe
"Das Segelschulschiff Krusenstern - vom Hamburger P-Liner zum russischen Segelschulschiff"
Elbe Spree Verlag, Berlin 1995 ISBN: 3-931129-05-5
(Heft 4 der Edition Navalis)
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: 311 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: 6,120,277 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"
2007 ISBN: 978-0-9799878-0-9
(17th Edition)
Page: 187 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact