Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Kronwerk"

Technical data of the sailing ship:

Name:Kronwerk
Ex-names:Sirius
Registered port:St. Petersburg
Nation:RUS
Type of rigging:BARKENTINE
Year built:1948
Yard:LAIVATEOLLISUUS WERFT, ÅBO
Overall length:44.00 m
Length (hull):44.00 m
Breadth:8.90 m
Draught:3.30 m
Ship's hull:Holz / Wood

Portrait of the sailing ship:

Last update: 01 May 2003

  • one of some hundred wooden merchant ships built in Finland as reparation to the Soviet Union.
  • rebuilt as a sailing training ship for Soviet seamen and baptised the "Sirius".
  • because of bad building materials and a lack of maintenance, the ship deteriorated rapidly.
  • laid up in St. Petersburg and used as restaurant, later scrapped, the restaurant was replaced by another ship hull.

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: 279 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: 122 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

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