Star Clipper
Star Clipper is a four masted barquentine built as a cruise ship, and operated by Star Clippers Ltd of Sweden. She is the first clipper ship in this class since 1912. She is classed by Lloyds 100A1
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Name: | Star Clipper |
Owner: | Star Clippers Ltd |
Operator: | Star Clippers Ltd |
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Builder: | Scheepswerven van Langerbrugge (Belgium) |
Yard number: | 2184 |
Laid down: | 20 April 1990 |
Completed: | 1 April 1992 |
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Status: | In service |
Notes: | [1] |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Barquentine, cruise ship |
Tonnage: | |
Length: | 111.57 m (366 ft 1 in) |
Beam: | 15.14 m (49 ft 8 in) |
Draught: | 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in) |
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Notes: | [1] |
A luxury vessel, she sails under the Maltese flag.
References
- "Vessel Star Clipper (21131)". DNV GL Vessel Register. Det Norske Veritas. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Star Clipper (ship, 1992). |
- Official website of Star Clippers, the operator of the ship
- "In seventh heaven" – review in The Australian of a cruise on the Star Clipper
- "Star Clipper" – review by Douglas Ward in The Daily Telegraph, London
- "Under sail on the Star Clipper" – review by Betsa Marsh in the Miami Herald
- Star Clipper at Shipspotting.com.
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