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Danmark
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Danish Sailing Ship Danmark Leaving Lake Union
Krantz, Ray
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Length overall: 253’
Beam: 33’
Draft: 15’
Hull: Steel
Rig: Ship
Year built: 1933
Home port: Copenhagen |
Launched
in 1932 to train officers for the Danish Merchant Navy, the steel-hulled,
double-bottomed Danmark A three-masted, full-rigged
ship. s built at Nakskov Shipyard in Denmark in 1933. The masts from
fore to aft: foremast, mainmast and mizzenmast. DANMARK can be rigged with
26 sails with a area of 1,632 m2 and can be rigged with fifteen square
sails, five sails on each mast, and ten staysails, of which four are
headsails, while the others are sails that can be rigged between the three
masts of the ship. Finally, the mizzenmast is rigged with a spanker. was
destined to have a significant impact upon U.S. military training.
Visiting the New York World’s Fair when war broke out in 1939, she and
her crew were offered to the Coast Guard. Modernization in 1959 cut the
Danmark’s capacity from 120 cadets to eighty. This 249-foot ship serves
the Danish marine Authority from her home port in Copenhagen.
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