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Khersones (ship)

Khersones at SAIL Amsterdam 2005.jpg
History
Russia
Owner: Sevastopol branch of Federal State-Financed Educational Institution of Higher Education «ADMIRAL USHAKOV MARITIME STATE UNIVERSITY»
Builder: Lenin Shipyard, Gdańsk
Launched: 1989
Status: Bareboat charterer, Inmaris Windjammer Chartering GmbH, Hamburg
Notes: Home port, Sevastopol
General characteristics
Class and type: Russian Maritime Register Special Purpose Ship !A
Length: 108.6 m (356 ft)
Beam: 14 m (46 ft)
Draft: 6,8 m
Propulsion: sail, 2 1,000 hp. auxiliary engines
Sail plan: 3-masted ship rig; sail area 2,770 m2 (29,800 sq ft), 26 sails, height 49.5 m (162 ft)
Complement: 42, including 2 teachers; 72 cadets; 91 trainees/passengers, max. 250 for day sails
Notes: Speed under sail, 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph).; under power, 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph).

The Khersones or Chersones is a Russian three-mast tall ship, a full rigged ship. It was built in 1989 in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland, in a series of six sister ships (among which also the Mir), after the designs of Polish naval architect Zygmunt Choreń. The ship is named after the city of Chersonesus an ancient city and archaeological site near Sevastopol.

Today Khersones was a training ship for the Admiral Ushakov Maritime State University. She partakes in many windjammer regattas.

Khersones will take part in "SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta - 2016".



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