Sail training vessel Italia (A5314)
History | |
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Name: | Italia (A5314) |
Owner: | Fondazione tender to nave Italia |
Operator: | Marina Militare |
Builder: | Wiswa shipyard (Gdańsk, Poland) |
Laid down: | 1992 |
Launched: | 30 march 1993 |
Commissioned: | 1993 |
Recommissioned: | 19 march 2007 |
In service: | 1 |
Renamed: | |
Motto: | Sursum corda |
Fate: | in service |
Notes: | Pennant number A5314 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Brigantine |
Tonnage: | 404 gross tons |
Length: | 61.0 m (200 ft 2 in) LOA; LPP:53.7 m (176 ft 2 in) |
Beam: | 9.16 m (30 ft 1 in) |
Height: | 44.6 m (146 ft 4 in) at mainmast |
Draught: | 3.85 m (12 ft 8 in) |
Speed: | 6.5 knots (12.0 km/h; 7.5 mph) |
Endurance: | 15 days on engine prop with good weather |
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The Italia (A5314) vessel is a Brigantine, active as sails trainings vessel for the Marina Militare.[1]
It's owned by Fondazione tender to nave Italia: no-profit foundation for maritime contest development, with property shared by Marina Militare and Yacht Club Italiano.
History
Built at the shipyard Wiswa, Gdańsk (Poland) as Swan fan Makkum it's a Brigantine.
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 1,300 square metres (14,000 sq ft) of sail, and with an air draft of 44.6 metres (144 ft) is one of the tallest of the tall ships.
Swan fan Makkum was sold February 6, 2007 to Fondazione tender to nave Italia and renamed Nave Italia, commissioned to Marina Militare 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.