Sir Winston Churchill
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Sir Winston Churchill

The Training Vessel at Penzance.
The Sir Winston Churchill
She visited Penzance in (I think) 1990, and it was a very wet day.
3-masted schooner, designed by Camper and Nicholson and built by Richard Dunston Ltd in Haven Shipyard, Hessle, Yorkshire in 1966. There was no English vessel that could be put forward to compete in a Tall Ships Race,

and so Bernard Morgan in 1954 proposed that one should be built.

Under the patronage of the Duke of Edinburgh and with public financial support,

The Sir Winston Churchill was built, and launched in 1966,

managed by the Sail Training Association for sail training.

She was taken out of service in 2000 to make way for 2 new sail training ships

and was then purchased by a Greek Owner who offers cruises of

the Greek isles and the Mediterranean – at £7,000 per day.

Built: 1966
Refitted : 2002
Present Port: Marina Zeas, Piraeus, Greece
Length Overall 134ft 9ins
Waterline Length 103ft 1ins
Beam 24ft 9ins
Draught: 16ft 4 ins
Sail area: 968.5 sq.yds
Engines: 2 x IVECO; 360 bhp
Cruising speed: 11 Knots
Generators: 2 x 60 kW
Fuel consumption: 100 litre/hr
Fuel capacity: 10,000 litres
Water capacity: 36,000 litres
Displacement 333 tonnes

Note also the Silver Harvester, a record breaking Newlyn fishing vessel, to be featured elsewhere on the site.



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