Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Pacific Swift"

Technical data of the sailing ship:

Name:Pacific Swift
Registered port:Victoria B.C.
Nation:CAN
Type of rigging:TOPPSEGELSCHONER
Year built:1986
Yard:Vancouver, B.C.
Overall length:33.70 m
Length (hull):24.30 m
Breadth:6.20 m
Draught:3.20 m
Sail area:278 m2
Ship's hull:Holz / Wood
Power:160 PS
Engine:Isuzu Diesel

Portrait of the sailing ship:

Last update: 30 Jul 2001

  • built by the S.A.L.T.S. Sail and Life Training Society as a working exhibit at Expo 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • modeled after a brig named "Swift" from 1778
  • used for training voyages for young trainees, visited ports in Australia and Europe, when not offshore she provides coastal sail training programs in the cruising grounds of the Pacific Northwest which include shorter school programs in the spring and fall and 10-day summer trips open to anyone aged 13 to 25.
  • S.A.L.T.S. received the 1998 Sail Training Program of the Year Award from the American Sail Training Association (ASTA)

Last tracked position of the ship:

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Last tracked position of the ship Pacific Swift

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: 126 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: 193 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Anthony Churchill
"Sail to Adventure"
ISBN: 0 948337 05 2
Page: 170 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: 197 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 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: 130 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: 210 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data