The Kapitan Borchardt, taking part in the parade of Sale, during the Tall Ships Festival, Greenwich.
A three-masted steel schooner launched in 1917, this ship has its own anthem. Kapitan Borchardt is a three-masted gaff-rigged schooner, built in the Netherlands as an ocean cargo ship. Over the years, it sailed as Nora, Harlingen, Mowe, Vader Gerrit, In Spe, Utskar and recently as Najaden - under this name it was used by the maritime school in Stockholm. On 30 August 2011, the ship was handed over to Polish sailors at the Nynashamn port from where it made its first voyage under the Polish flag. Since 8 October 2011 when it was christened in Gdańsk, it has sailed under the name of Kapitan Borchardt, as a Polish training sailing ship. It was named after Karol Olgierd Borchardt to honour the idea of popularization of maritime traditions and customs and to honour the name of the well-known Polish captain, man of letters and marine writer.
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Location: The Thames Path, Greenwich, London.
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: -masted, 1917, borchardt, festival, gaff-rigged, greenwich, kapitan, schooner, ships, tall
