Sailing Vessel 286 ''–'' ''Lê Quý Đôn'' is a
tall ship
A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigging, rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. "Tall ship" can also be defined more specifically by an organization, such as for a r ...
of the
Vietnam People's Navy
The Vietnam People's Navy (VPN; ), internally the Naval Service (), also known as the Vietnamese People's Navy or simply Vietnam/Vietnamese Navy (), is the naval branch of the Vietnam People's Army and is responsible for the protection of the ...
(''Hải quân Nhân dân Việt Nam''). She is named in honour of the Vietnamese philosopher
Lê Quý Đôn
(chữ Hán: (; 2 August 1726 – 11 June 1784), , on his pen name is Doãn Hậu , and Quế Đường was an 18th-century Vietnamese poet, encyclopedist, and government official. His pseudonym was Quế - Đường. He was a native of Duye ...
(1726–1784). The maiden voyage with a mixed crew of Vietnamese and Polish sailors started on 27 September 2015 from
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...
to
Nha Trang
Nha Trang ( or ; ) is a coastal city and capital of Khánh Hòa Province, on the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is bounded on the north by Ninh Hoà town, on the south by Cam Ranh city and on the west by Diên Khánh District. The city had ...
, where she is based now.
The ship
The training ship was ordered in 2013 at Marine Projects Ltd. in
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...
, Poland. The vessel was designed by
Polish
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Zygmunt Choreń
Zygmunt Choreń (born 1941) is a Polish naval architect and the proprietor of the naval architectural firm Choreń Design and Consulting. He is a graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology and the Leningrad Ship-Building Institute.
He w ...
, for Vietnam Navy, and built by the
Marine Projects Ltd. Shipyard in
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...
,
Poland
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.
The three-masted
barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel with three or more mast (sailing), masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are Square rig, rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-maste ...
is carrying 1400 m² sails made of synthetic materials, her hull is made of steel. She has a crew of 30 plus 80
cadet
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s.
Le Quy Don już gotowy. Żaglowiec wyrusza do Wietnamu
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File: Le-Quy-Don cr by-RHB.jpg, ''Lê Quý Đôn'' before the maiden voyage.
References
External links
Marine Projects Ltd.: ''MAIDEN VOYAGE OF SAIL TRAINING SHIP ‘LE QUY DON’''
Ships of the Vietnam People's Navy
Barques
Individual sailing vessels
Ships built in Gdańsk
Tall ships
Three-masted ships
2014 ships
Naval ships built in Poland for export
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