Asgard II (Wallpaper 2)
Thursday, May 19, 2011
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Asgard II (Wallpaper 2)
Asgard II Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery 2. Asgard II Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection 2.
The five crew and twenty trainees had earlier abandoned the vessel after she started taking on water. Asgard II was heading from Falmouth to La Rochelle for some routine maintenance. Assistance was given by Haldoz and Arklow Venus and two lifeboats from Belle Île, Morbihan, France. Before the end of 2008, a plan to raise the ship was put to the Irish cabinet. It was hoped that the €3.8 million costs would be paid for by the insurers, with the vessel being raised in spring 2009, given favourable conditions. Like America's Eagle, Australia's Young Endeavour, Portugal's Sagres III and a host of other nation's tall ships used for training, Asgard II for 27 years provided very special experiences for young Irish sailors - until she sank, ingloriously, in the Bay of Biscay in September of 2008. Asgard II (Wallpaper 2). Asgard II Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery 2. Asgard II Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection 2. More than 12,000 young people from every walk of life and all parts of Ireland (and abroad too) enjoyed their first sailing experiences on Asgard II. She was a very busy ship in the years that she sailed, and there were already concerns about her advancing age when she tragically sank. Thanks to the calm skill of Captain Colm Newport and his crew and the assistance of the French coastguard, all on board were safely evacuated. But the sinking was the end of an era. The Asgard programme had become an anomaly, as she was government owned yet not used solely for trainee professional sailors. Places were available to anyone in the required age bracket. Yet she was one of the very few government owned and run sail training ships in the world, in an era when governments increasingly concentrate on specific areas of infrastructure and welfare, while specialist activities such as publicly available sail training are handled by voluntary trusts -- monitored by government agencies like any other aspect of life on the sea. Asgard II (Wallpaper 2). Asgard II Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery 2. Asgard II Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection 2.
Asgard II Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery 2. Asgard II Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection 2.
The five crew and twenty trainees had earlier abandoned the vessel after she started taking on water. Asgard II was heading from Falmouth to La Rochelle for some routine maintenance. Assistance was given by Haldoz and Arklow Venus and two lifeboats from Belle Île, Morbihan, France. Before the end of 2008, a plan to raise the ship was put to the Irish cabinet. It was hoped that the €3.8 million costs would be paid for by the insurers, with the vessel being raised in spring 2009, given favourable conditions. Like America's Eagle, Australia's Young Endeavour, Portugal's Sagres III and a host of other nation's tall ships used for training, Asgard II for 27 years provided very special experiences for young Irish sailors - until she sank, ingloriously, in the Bay of Biscay in September of 2008. Asgard II (Wallpaper 2). Asgard II Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery 2. Asgard II Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection 2. More than 12,000 young people from every walk of life and all parts of Ireland (and abroad too) enjoyed their first sailing experiences on Asgard II. She was a very busy ship in the years that she sailed, and there were already concerns about her advancing age when she tragically sank. Thanks to the calm skill of Captain Colm Newport and his crew and the assistance of the French coastguard, all on board were safely evacuated. But the sinking was the end of an era. The Asgard programme had become an anomaly, as she was government owned yet not used solely for trainee professional sailors. Places were available to anyone in the required age bracket. Yet she was one of the very few government owned and run sail training ships in the world, in an era when governments increasingly concentrate on specific areas of infrastructure and welfare, while specialist activities such as publicly available sail training are handled by voluntary trusts -- monitored by government agencies like any other aspect of life on the sea. Asgard II (Wallpaper 2). Asgard II Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery 2. Asgard II Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection 2.
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