STS Mir (Wallpaper 2)
Sunday, September 4, 2011
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STS Mir (Wallpaper 2)
2. STS Mir Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery. 2. STS Mir Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection.
During the afternoon of the 28 June 2005 Elizabeth II, as Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, embarked onboard HMS Endurance and, escorted by THV Patricia, set sail to review a fleet of over 167 ships from over 30 nations. STS Mir from Russia is pictured at anchor with her sister ship Dar Mlodziezy from Poland and the training ship Mercedes from the Netherlands in the Solent Portsmouth during the Trafalgar 200 International Fleet Review. MIR was built as the third of six almost similar sisterships at the Lenin-shipyard in Gdansk/Poland that later became famous for the 'Solidanocz' activities lead by Lech Valensa. This man, who later became President of Poland was actually one of the shipyard workers who helped to build the MIR. In 1981 the nearly unknown ships constructor Zygmunt Choren had designed a brandnew type of square rigged sailtraining vessels (M108-Type). The first ship of this family, the DAR MLODZIEZY was built to replace the old sailtraining ship DAR POMORZA for the Polish merchant navy. Being a clever construction, the USSR decided, they, too, wanted such a ship. Not only one – five! First came DRUZHBA and the in 1987 the MIR. For the MIR Choren altered the rigging and so he made a ship that could be brought extremely high to the wind. MIR is also a bit longer than DAR MLODZIEZY. While she was still under construction, one could see, that this brought some inconveniences: she is rolling quite heavily in seas coming from behind. So for the following vessels PALLADA, KHERSONES and NADEZHDA the construction was changed again. Their waterline is longer by the same length of the hull. Actually this should mean, they are faster than the MIR – but they are not. In December 1987 Captain Viktor Antonov sailed her home safely to Saint-Petersburg/Russia, at that time called Leningrad. The ship was built and always used as sailtraining ship. She served for the education of cadets from the State Maritime Academy. Being a very fast ship from the beginning she took part in several regattas which she as a rule won, first time winning overall in the OPERATION SAIL 1989. Unfortunately after the the break down of the communistic system in Russia hard times hit the ship. Her new owner became the Baltic Shipping Company and the ship had to struggle financially. A solution seemed to be to invite foreigners to sail as trainees on MIR, to make day sailings with passengers, to rent salons for incentives and parties. All these things not being normal activities for a sailtraining ship helped to keep the ship afloat. By the end of 1993 MIR again became the property of the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy who still owns the ship.
STS Mir (Wallpaper 1)2. STS Mir Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery. 2. STS Mir Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection.
During the afternoon of the 28 June 2005 Elizabeth II, as Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, embarked onboard HMS Endurance and, escorted by THV Patricia, set sail to review a fleet of over 167 ships from over 30 nations. STS Mir from Russia is pictured at anchor with her sister ship Dar Mlodziezy from Poland and the training ship Mercedes from the Netherlands in the Solent Portsmouth during the Trafalgar 200 International Fleet Review. MIR was built as the third of six almost similar sisterships at the Lenin-shipyard in Gdansk/Poland that later became famous for the 'Solidanocz' activities lead by Lech Valensa. This man, who later became President of Poland was actually one of the shipyard workers who helped to build the MIR. In 1981 the nearly unknown ships constructor Zygmunt Choren had designed a brandnew type of square rigged sailtraining vessels (M108-Type). The first ship of this family, the DAR MLODZIEZY was built to replace the old sailtraining ship DAR POMORZA for the Polish merchant navy. Being a clever construction, the USSR decided, they, too, wanted such a ship. Not only one – five! First came DRUZHBA and the in 1987 the MIR. For the MIR Choren altered the rigging and so he made a ship that could be brought extremely high to the wind. MIR is also a bit longer than DAR MLODZIEZY. While she was still under construction, one could see, that this brought some inconveniences: she is rolling quite heavily in seas coming from behind. So for the following vessels PALLADA, KHERSONES and NADEZHDA the construction was changed again. Their waterline is longer by the same length of the hull. Actually this should mean, they are faster than the MIR – but they are not. In December 1987 Captain Viktor Antonov sailed her home safely to Saint-Petersburg/Russia, at that time called Leningrad. The ship was built and always used as sailtraining ship. She served for the education of cadets from the State Maritime Academy. Being a very fast ship from the beginning she took part in several regattas which she as a rule won, first time winning overall in the OPERATION SAIL 1989. Unfortunately after the the break down of the communistic system in Russia hard times hit the ship. Her new owner became the Baltic Shipping Company and the ship had to struggle financially. A solution seemed to be to invite foreigners to sail as trainees on MIR, to make day sailings with passengers, to rent salons for incentives and parties. All these things not being normal activities for a sailtraining ship helped to keep the ship afloat. By the end of 1993 MIR again became the property of the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy who still owns the ship.
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