Kaliakra (Tall ship)

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Kaliakra sailing away

The Sail Training Vessel Kaliakra (Known also as STV Kaliakra, Bulgarian language: Калиакра) is a barquentine, built in 1984 at the Gdańsk Shipyard, after the plans of the Polish technical designer Zygmunt Choren. She is a property of Navigation Maritime Bulgare, Bulgaria and is stationed in Port Varna, Bulgaria.

1 The ship
2 Specification
3 Races and awards
4 Trivia
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] The ship

During a journey

The general perception is that Kaliakra is a reproduction of a ship of the same name from the time before World War I. In fact, she is one of the three ultra-modern sister ships, designed for training. Now she is used for training the Naval Cadets from Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy in Varna, Bulgaria.

The ship is one of the fastest tall ships in the world with a proven record of performance. She has participated on relatively regular basis in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships regatta, organized by the Sail Training International (STI) Association. During the Columbus Race in 1992, dedicated to the 500 years jubilee of the discovery of America, Kaliakra sailed the Atlantic Ocean twice and finished third out of 143 ships.

Onboard Kaliakra have been the King of Spain, the Norwegian heir to the throne and many other distinguished personalities.

Sail Training journies are performed, as well as tourist cruises.

[edit] Specification

In the Mediterranean

The hull and the superstructure are made of steel; the masts are partly made of steel and partly of fabric.

Rigging: Barquentine Class A
Length: 52 m
Beam: 8.0 m
Draft: 3.5 - 4.0 m
Displacement: 392 t metric
Area of main sails: 816 m²
Area of square sails: 264 m²
Total area of the sails: 1080 m²
Main and foremast height: 30.6 m
Mizzen-mast: 26.6 m
Main power plant: 228 kW
Fresh water capacity: 36 t metric
Diesel: 27 t metric
Permanent crew: 15 persons
Cadets and/or trainees: 34 persons
Accommodation: 4 cabins with 2 hammocks each, 1 cabin with 6 hammocks, 1 cabin with 9 hammocks and 1 cabin with 11 hammocks for trainees.

[edit] Races and awards

1986 Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race Ranked first in both competition races and third in corrected time
1987 Cutty Sark '87 - Baltic Race
1988 Cutty Sark '88 - Baltic Race
1989 Sail Training Association of The Netherlands (STAN)
1990 Cutty Sark Training Ships Race '90
1992 Grand Regatta Columbus '92
1996 Cutty Sark '96 Mediterranean Race Won the silver cup and plaque for 1^st position in Class A
1997 Cutty Sark '97
1998 Cutty Sark '98 Tall Ships Races Loyalty Prize
2000 Tall Ships '00 Won the first race leg from Genova to Cadiz
2001 Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race '01 Peter and Simon Crouter Memorial Trophy
2002 Cutty Sark Tall Ships '02 The Greville Howard Memorial Shield
2005 The Tall Ships Races '05
2006 The 50^th Anniversary Tall Ships Races '06

[edit] Trivia

Coin featuring the ship on its tail

The ship is named after the legend of the girl Kaliakra, which shall have jumped together with 40 friends from the rocks of the cape of Kaliakra down on the riffs for she preferred death instesd of live in a turkish harem.
In 1996 a coin of 1 000 leva denomination that featured the ship on its tail was issued.