RV Oceania
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 RV Oceania |
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| Career (Poland) |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Gdańsk Shipyard, Gdańsk  Poland |
| Launched: | 1985 |
| Homeport: | Gdańsk Poland |
| Fate: | operational |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 370 T |
| Length: | 48.9m |
| Beam: | 9.0m |
| Draught: | 3.8m |
| Propulsion: | diesel, 310 hp with controllable pitch propellers, bow thrusters 70 hp, 430 m² sails on 3 masts |
| Speed: | 13 kn on sails, 9 kn on engine |
| Endurance: | 1 month |
| Boats and landing craft carried: |
2 inflatable outboards |
| Complement: | 13 crew, 14 scientists |
RV Oceania, or SY Oceania, is a tall ship, owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and used as a research vessel.
She was built in 1985 in the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland, after the design of Zygmunt Choreń. The hull was based on plans of earlier tall ships: ORP Iskra II and Pogoria, but its rigging was different. Oceania was originally a full rigged ship, with three masts (each 32 meters high). On every mast there was only one sail, in the shape of a vertical rectangle (sometimes Oceania was classified as a frigate), but later the yards and the sail from the mizzen-mast were removed. Sails are raised and driven hydraulically.
The ship is equipped with laboratories able to provide hydrographic, optic, acoustic, chemical, biological and particulate experiments and observations.
