Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2013 14:57:26 GMT -5
ELENA MARIA BARBARA:
Externally ELENA MARIA BARBARA, once restored, will be an exact replica of an 18th century armed tops’l schooner. This class of ship was notable for its speed and seaworthiness and was a great favourite of the British, American, Russian and Scandinavian navies who used them to pass messages speedily between ships of the line, their squadrons and their naval bases. Later versions were also widely used in the early 19th century as mail ships and by customs and revenue services and the class was immortalised by Patrick O’Brian in his Jack Aubrey novels, as Ringle.
Although ELENA is of recent construction, built to a design by naval architect Andrey Ahkmeton, she is based on a set of lines drawn up by Fredrik Af Chapman and taken from his monumental work ‘Architectura Navalis Mercatoria’ published in 1768. She was built at the Grumant and Askold shipyard in Petrozavodsk on Lake Onega, Russia and launched on 16th July 1995.
ELENA, the last of five 18th century stylised vessels formed a part of ‘Peter the Great’s Navy’, a fleet built specifically for the city of St Petersburg’s tri-centennial celebrations.
LINK 1: www.elenamariabarbara.com/home.html
LINK 2: www.worldofboatscardiff.com/explore/
Externally ELENA MARIA BARBARA, once restored, will be an exact replica of an 18th century armed tops’l schooner. This class of ship was notable for its speed and seaworthiness and was a great favourite of the British, American, Russian and Scandinavian navies who used them to pass messages speedily between ships of the line, their squadrons and their naval bases. Later versions were also widely used in the early 19th century as mail ships and by customs and revenue services and the class was immortalised by Patrick O’Brian in his Jack Aubrey novels, as Ringle.
Although ELENA is of recent construction, built to a design by naval architect Andrey Ahkmeton, she is based on a set of lines drawn up by Fredrik Af Chapman and taken from his monumental work ‘Architectura Navalis Mercatoria’ published in 1768. She was built at the Grumant and Askold shipyard in Petrozavodsk on Lake Onega, Russia and launched on 16th July 1995.
ELENA, the last of five 18th century stylised vessels formed a part of ‘Peter the Great’s Navy’, a fleet built specifically for the city of St Petersburg’s tri-centennial celebrations.
LINK 1: www.elenamariabarbara.com/home.html
LINK 2: www.worldofboatscardiff.com/explore/