''Europa'' is a steel-
hull
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Structures
* Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle
* Fuselage, of an aircraft
* Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds
* Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
* Submarine hull
Mathematics
* Affine hull, in affi ...
ed
barque registered in the Netherlands. Originally she was a German
lightship Lightship may refer to:
* Lightvessel, a moored ship that has light beacons mounted as navigational aids
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, named ''Senator Brockes'' and built in 1911 at the
H.C. Stülcken & Sohn shipyard in
Hamburg, Germany. Until 1977, she was in use by the
German Federal Coast Guard as a lightship on the river
Elbe. A Dutchman bought the vessel (or what was left of her) in 1985 and in 1994 she was fully restored as a barque, a three-mast rigged vessel, and retrofitted for special-purpose sail-training.
''Europa'' cruises worldwide and accepts paying voyage crew (trainees) for short or long trip segments, including ocean crossings, Sail Training Association races, and annual voyages to
Antarctica, and between
South Georgia
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,
Tristan da Cunha, and
Cape Town.
In 2002 and 2013 she rounded
Cape Horn. In 2010 she participated in
Velas Sudamerica 2010
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, an historical
Latin American tour by eleven tall ships to celebrate the
bicentennial of the first national governments of Argentina and
Chile.
In 2013-2014 ''Europa'' circumnavigated the world together with two other Dutch tall ships,
''Tecla'' and
''Oosterschelde''. They sailed from South Africa to
Mauritius,
Australia
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and
New Zealand. In October 2013 ''Europa'' participated in the
International Fleet Review 2013 in
Sydney
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. From New Zealand, the ship sailed an official Cape Horn rounding (October - December 2013). In June 2014 ''Europa'' completed her circumnavigation by arriving in Amsterdam.
Gallery
Image:Bark Europa cape town.jpg, ''Europa'' sailing in front of Table Mountain, South Africa
Image:Europa ship.jpg, ''Europa'' sailing off Ushuaia, Argentina
Image:The Dutch barque Europa in a shipyard in Cape Town in May 2012.jpg, ''Europa'' in a shipyard in Cape Town, South Africa
Image:Shipyard workers at the Dutch Bark Europa - Cape Town in May 2012.jpg, Shipyard workers at work, Cape Town - South Africa
Image:Galions figure on the bow of the Dutch Bark Europa - Cape Town in May 2012.jpg, Figurehead with Europa
Europa may refer to:
Places
* Europe
* Europa (Roman province), a province within the Diocese of Thrace
* Europa (Seville Metro), Seville, Spain; a station on the Seville Metro
* Europa City, Paris, France; a planned development
* Europa Cliff ...
and the bull
References
Also the Europa set sail to Melbourne, Australia and Arrived in September 1852.
External links
*
Feuerschiff Senator Brockes
Ship details at Bureau Veritas
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Individual sailing vessels
Barques
Tall ships of the Netherlands
1911 ships