Built as an oceanographic research vessel by the BOEL yard in Temse, Belgium for the Royal Belgium Navy.
Launched as the ZÉNOBE GRAMME (A 958).
Displacement 136 ton, dim. 28.15 x 6.85 x 2.80m. (draught)
One 6-cyl. auxiliary diesel engine 230 hp, speed under engine, 8 knots.
Bermuda ketch rigged, sail area 700m²
1961 Delivered to the Belgium Navy.
The Sail Training Ship Zénobe Gramme was originally designed as an
oceanographic research vessel by the naval architect Van Dijck and was built in
1961 at the former Boel shipyards in Temse, Belgium. She is named after the
scientist Zénobe Gramme, the inventor of the dynamo (1869). She was used as
a research vessel until 1970, since then she has exclusively been used as a
sail training and public relations vessel.
BNS Zénobe Gramme, a 29 m (92 ft) Bermuda Ketch, is owned and operated by
the Belgian Navy.
The ship has been adopted by the Bruxelles Royal Yacht Club. Her home port is
the Belgian Naval base in Zeebrugge. The crew consists of 1 Officer, 6
crewmembers and 10 trainees.
She participated in The Tall Ships Races for the first time in 1972 has been a
regular participant ever since. She won the Cutty Sark Trophy in 1976 and the
Hans Reith Memorial Trophy and the Sail Training International Ince Trophy in
2003. She has covered 300.000 Nautical miles (557.000 km) since 1961 till September 2008.
Total of sailing hours since commissioned, 30,061 hours till September 2008.
Belgium 2012 sg?, scott?
Source: http://www.yachtweb.be/yachting/zenobegramme.pdf. Belgium Navy web-site.
C.S. PACIFIC GUARDIAN is the latest ship of the C & W, which was launched by Lady Marion Sharp on 13th June 1984. She cost £18 million.
Her base is Suva, Fiji, and so there is another question whether she has visited the Virgin Islands.
She has been provided with 3 cable tanks of 50,000 cubic feet totally. She has one screw and one thruster fwd and aft.
Her crew consists of 67 men and 11 cable technicians.
She was built by Swan Hunter and sails with a speed of 16 knots. Dim.: 115m x 18m x 5.80m (dr). Her tonnage is of nearly 6000 tons.
Log Book July 1987
British Virgin Islands SG620 MS623




