OCEANIA 1985

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OCEANIA 1985

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Built as a three- masted sailing research vessel, mostly used in the Northerly waters under yard No. 882 as a type B97 vessel by Stocznia Gdanska shipyard in Gdansk for the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
04 May 1985 launched under the name OCEANIA.
Tonnage 370 ton displacement, dim. 48.9 x 9.0 x 3.8m. (draught).
One diesel engine 310 hp., controllable pitch propeller, speed 9 knots, under sail maximum 13 knots.
One bow-thruster 70 hp. Bunker capacity 47 ton.
Sail area 430 m³., sails can be set, hoisted/lowered hydraulically.
Crew: accommodation 13 double cabins, one 6 person’s cabin, one single cabin. Crew 13 and 14 scientists.
Fitted out with laboratories.
One A-frame on after stern with a payload of 6 tons.
Completed 1985. Homeport Gdansk.

The hull was based on plans of earlier tall ships: ORP ISKRA II and POGORIA, but its rigging was different.
OCEANIA was originally a full rigged ship, with three masts (each 32 meters high). On every mast there was only one sail, in the shape of a vertical rectangle (sometimes OCEANIA was classified as a frigate), but the yards and sails from the mizzen mast was removed.
The ship is equipped with laboratories able to provide hydrographic, optic, acoustic, chemical, biological and particulate experiments and observation.

Poland 1996 40g sg 3604, scott 3275a

Source: Marine News 1985/483. copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Oceania http://www.iopan.gda.pl/oceania/oceania.html

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