''Italia'' is a

brigantine A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts. Older ...

, where projects are carried out to fully develop the potential of people with disabilities or social disadvantage. The Ship is led by personnel from the

Italian Navy "Fatherland and Honour" , patron = , colors = , colors_label = , march = ( is the return of soldiers to their barrack, or sailors to their ship after a ...

. It is owned by Fondazione tender to nave Italia, a non-profit foundation for maritime contest development, with property shared by

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and

Yacht Club Italiano The Yacht Club Italiano is a yacht club in Genoa, Italy. History It was founded in 1879 and is one of the oldest sailing clubs in the Mediterranean. This club was bestowed Royal Patronage by HRH King Umberto I of Italy since its inception. This c ...

History

Built at the shipyard Wiswa,

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

(

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

) as

Swan fan Makkum ''Swan fan Makkum'' is a brigantine, built in 1993 in the Gdansk shipyard, Poland. Named for Willem Sligting, Makkum, christened by Hinke de Vries, co-owner and wife, in a multilingual fashion: English, Polish and Frysian and after the ceremony lau ...

it is a

Brigantine A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts. Older ...

. Named for Willem Sligting, Makkum, christened by Hinke de Vries, co-owner and wife, in a multilingual fashion: English, Polish and Frysian and after the ceremony launched in the river Wisla. She is the largest brigantine in the world, as well as the largest two masted sailing vessel, with an overall length of 61 metres (200 ft). She carries a maximum of of sail, and with an air draft of 44.6 metres (144 ft) is one of the tallest of the tall ships.

was sold February 6, 2007 to Fondazione tender to nave Italia and renamed ''Nave Italia'', commissioned to

Italian Navy "Fatherland and Honour" , patron = , colors = , colors_label = , march = ( is the return of soldiers to their barrack, or sailors to their ship after a ...

on 19 March 2007. She will continue to appear as a competitor in the Tall Ships Race, her first appearance as ''Nave Italia'' was in the 2007 Mediterranean series.

Gallery

File:Nave Italia profilo.JPG, The ship docked at

Cetraro Cetraro ( Calabrian: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. Waste dumping The 'Ndrangheta, an Italian mafia syndicate, has been accused by pentito Francesco Fonti, a former member of ' ...

. File:Nave Italia fronte.jpg File:Nave Italia motto.jpg, The motto: Sursum Corda File:Nave Italia ponte.jpg, The Bridge File:Brigantino_Goletta_Italia_fronte.jpg, The ship, sailing in

Marina di Campo Marina di Campo is a town in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Campo nell'Elba, province of Livorno. At the time of the 2011 census its population was . Marina di Campo is the main town and municipal seat of the ...

Isola d'Elba Elba ( it, isola d'Elba, ; la, Ilva) is a Mediterranean island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino on the Italian mainland, and the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago. It is also part of the Arcipelago Toscano National ...

, 2020. File:Brigantino_Goletta_Italia_fronte_lato.jpg File:Brigantino_Goletta_Italia_lato.jpg File:Brigantino_Goletta_Italia_posteriore.jpg

References

External links

Nave ItaliaYacht Club Italiano
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