Re-constructed East Indianman

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http://www.gotheborg.se/engelska/inenglish...db97fff408.html

Too cool, but no published plans to visit the US (yet).

[blackjohn]

Cool! They finally launched her!!! I looked in on this one every blue moon. Hadn't visited in awhile I guess. That's great news.

I wonder if the French have gotten anywhere with the 1690s ship they were thinking of building?

And I wonder how the East Indiaman that was being built in Salem is faring?

[Story]

Cool!  They finally launched her!!!  I looked in on this one every blue moon.  Hadn't visited in awhile I guess.  That's great news.

I wonder if the French have gotten anywhere with the 1690s ship they were thinking of building?

And I wonder how the East Indiaman that was being built in Salem is faring?

The FRIENDSHIP?

http://www.salemweb.com/frndship/

http://www.curriculumunits.com/crucible/pr...a_tall_ship.htm

and then there's the Dutch BATAVIA

http://www.bataviaphotos.com/

[blackjohn]

Friendship! Yes, that's her. I just realized it has been five years since I was last up in New England. I saw her in Salem, just after OpSail2000.

Nice links. Thanks.

The Frenchie I was thinking of was the Jean Bart. http://www.tourville.asso.fr/

I'm not sure what has been done on her. Looks like they may have laid a keel. Alot of the info on their English version just links to the French version. Anyone here know French???

There are so many cool ships out there!!!

http://www.timedesign.de/ship/ship.html

[Captain Jim]

'Tis high tyme we be formin' up a boardin' party...so many tall ships, who do ye think will miss one?

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UPDATED: 09:14, October 30, 2006

Replica of 18th century Swedish ship "Gotheborg" leaves Shanghai

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The replica of the 18th century Swedish merchant ship "Gotheborg" bid farewell to Shanghai Saturday after its record two months of berthing in China's largest commercial center.

During the period, the ship received about 83,000 visitors since it arrived in the metropolis on Aug. 29, and more tourists came to the dock where it had been staying to visit an exhibition showcasing sea voyage culture and the friendly exchanges in history between China and Sweden, local tourism authorities said.

"We hope she can come back in 2010 when Shanghai holds the World Expo," said Goran Bengtsson, chairman of the Swedish East India Company, Svenska Ostindiska Companiet or SOIC, the manufacturer of "Gotheborg," at a ceremony for return voyage in Shanghai.

The ship will visit Zhoushan, east China's Zhejiang Province after leaving Shanghai and will have an overall maintenance in a shipyard there. The planned two-week stay in Zhoushan will bring her China tour to an end and she is expected to return to Sweden next August with a journey of about 37,000 sea miles.

The legendary Gotheborg made three voyages from Gothenburg to southern Chinese city of Guangzhou between 1743 and 1745, pioneering trade between Sweden and China.

On its last return trip to Sweden in 1745, tragedy struck when it smashed into rocks about 900 meters from its destination after a 30-month voyage to China. It sunk with its entire cargo, including tea, china and silk, outside the port of Gothenburg.

The wreckage of the ship was recovered in 1984 and excavation was conducted from 1986 to 1992. The discovery led to the idea of rebuilding a replica of the ship by using the same traditional techniques and materials and sailing it to China again.

The replica, Gotheborg III, is 58.8 meters long and 11 meters wide. It cost 30 million U.S. dollars and 10 years of work by more than 4,000 shipbuilders.

Her voyage to China took about nine and a half months since she kicked off her journey from Gothenburg, Sweden in October last year.

Before Shanghai, she had visited Guangzhou and stayed there for a month, attracting at least 2.5 million visitors since her arrival in the city on July 18.

China and Sweden registered 5.7 billion U.S. dollars of bilateral trade in 2005, China's Ministry of Commerce said.

Source: Xinhua

[Capn_Enigma]

I sure hope they will launch the 1,600 tons "7 Provinciën", a Dutch man- o- war, one day. But then again, the VOC retourschip "Batavia" took them ten years to build., and it was "only" 650 tons.