Europa (ship)

Europa is a steel-hulled barque registered in the Netherlands. Originally she was a German lightship, named Senator Brockes and built in 1911 at the H.C. Stülcken & Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. Until 1977, she was in use by the German Federal Coast Guard as a lightship on the river Elbe. A Dutchman bought the vessel (or what was left of her) in 1985 and in 1994 she was fully restored as a barque, a three-mast rigged vessel, and retrofitted for special-purpose sail-training.

For other ships named "Europa", see Europa (disambiguation).

Europa 2007
History
Germany
Name: Senator Brockes
Namesake: Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747)
Builder: H. C. Stülcken & Sohn, Hamburg, Germany
Cost: 300,000 Reichsmark
Yard number: 409
Launched: 1911
Out of service: 1977
Fate: Sold, 1985
History
Netherlands
Name: Europa
Owner: Rederij bark EUROPA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Operator: Rederij bark EUROPA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Port of registry: The Hague, The Netherlands
Christened: 1994
Acquired: 1985
In service: 1994
Homeport: The Hague
Identification:
Status: Active
General characteristics
Type: Three-masted steel barque
Tonnage: 303 GT
Length: 39.8 m (131 ft)
Beam: 7.45 m (24.4 ft)
Height: 33 m (108 ft)
Draught: 3.8 m (12 ft)
Depth of hold: 4.6 m (15 ft)
Installed power: 2 × 365 HP Caterpillar 6-cyl. Diesel
Propulsion: Sail; auxiliary Diesel engine
Sail plan: 30 sails (incl. 6 studding sails; 1,250 m2 (13,500 sq ft) sail area
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range: Worldwide
Complement: 64
Notes: [1]

Europa cruises worldwide and accepts paying voyage crew (trainees) for short or long trip segments, including ocean crossings, Sail Training Association races, and annual voyages to Antarctica, and between South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, and Cape Town.

In 2002 and 2013 she rounded Cape Horn. In 2010 she participated in Velas Sudamerica 2010, an historical Latin American tour by eleven tall ships to celebrate the bicentennial of the first national governments of Argentina and Chile.[2]

In 2013-2014 Europa circumnavigated the world together with two other Dutch tall ships, Tecla and Oosterschelde. They sailed from South Africa to Mauritius, Australia and New Zealand. In October 2013 Europa participated in the International Fleet Review 2013 in Sydney. From New Zealand, the ship sailed an official Cape Horn rounding (October - December 2013). In June 2014 Europa completed her circumnavigation by arriving in Amsterdam.

References
  1. "Europa". veristar. Bureau Veritas. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  2. "Velas Sudamerica 2010". Archived from the original on 25 October 2012.
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