Götheborg (ship)
Stern view at SAIL Amsterdam, 2010
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| Name: | Götheborg |
| Owner: | Svenska Ostindiska Companiet AB |
| Port of registry: | Gothenburg |
| Builder: | Terra Nova shipyard, Gothenburg |
| Laid down: | 11 June 1995 |
| Launched: | 6 June 2003 |
| Sponsored by: | Queen Silvia |
| Christened: | 3 September 2004 |
| Maiden voyage: | 6 August 2005 |
| In service: | 18 April 2005 |
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| Status: | in active service, as of 2014[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Sailing vessel |
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| Beam: | 11 m (36 ft 1 in) |
| Draught: | 4.95 m (16 ft 3 in) |
| Depth: | 6.75 m (22 ft 2 in) |
| Decks: | 3 |
| Installed power: | 2 × 180 kW (241 hp) Volvo Penta 103 generators |
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| Crew: | 80 (20 professional & 60 volunteers) |
| Armament: | 10 × long guns |
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| Location | Gothenburg |
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| Coordinates | 57°46′30″N 11°45′30″E / 57.775003°N 11.758331°ECoordinates: 57°46′30″N 11°45′30″E / 57.775003°N 11.758331°E |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1986–1992 |
| Archaeologists | Marinarkeologiska Sällskapet, Göteborgskretsen |
Götheborg is a sailing replica of an 18th-century Swedish East Indiaman and one of the world's largest operational wooden sailing vessels. All sailors survived when the original ship sank off Gothenburg, Sweden, on 12 September 1745, while approaching the harbour on her return from a third voyage to China. Construction of the replica started in 1995, with the hull launched in 2003, and the rig fully tested for the first time in 2005. Much of the time was spent researching how to rebuild the replica. In 2008, Götheborg completed the first Baltic Sea Tour.
The Swedish East India Company was established on 14 June 1731, to trade in East Asia. The company followed the Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, French and English East India Companies. Situated in Gothenburg, the company secured a 15-year monopoly on far eastern trade, exchanging Swedish timber, tar, iron and copper for tea, porcelain and silk.
The company existed for 82 years and its vessels made 131 voyages using 37 different ships. Even though the company in the end went bankrupt, it made enormous profits during most of its years in operation and influenced the history of Sweden in several ways.
Götheborg was built at the Terra Nova shipyard in Stockholm and launched in 1738. According to writer Björn Ahlander, it only took about one and a half years to build a ship of this size in the 1700s. It was built in the Swedish capital and named Götheborg because the Swedish East India Company resided in Gothenburg, and all expeditions began and ended at this port. The ship had a tonnage equivalent to about 830 t (1,830,000 lb). On its maiden voyage in 1739, the ship carried 30 cannons and an initial crew of 144.
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