Belem-
The French barque Belem (short for Bethlehem).
Built 1896, 406 tons, 51m (167") + 7m bowsprit, 22 sails (1000,5 m²), main mast draft 34m.
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The French barque Belem (short for Bethlehem).
Built 1896, 406 tons, 51m (167") + 7m bowsprit, 22 sails (1000,5 m²), main mast draft 34m.
Originally a cargo ship, transporting cocoa and coffee from Brazil and French Guyana, and sugar from the West Indies, to Nantes in France.
Today she serves as a training ship. Miraculously she has survived nature catastrophes twice:
First she escaped the volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée-Hawaii in 1902, where the doomed harbor happened to be full, so she was compelled to anchor elsewhere.
Then again in Yokohama-Japan in 1923, where the harbor was destroyed by an earthquake, but Belem was lucky and somehow managed to escape.
Here seen sailing near la Pointe du Van, Baie des Trespassés Brittany, France, on July 27th 2010.
NOTE: Captured far out at sea w- a tele lens (FF equiv. 676mm), through haze and mirage. Hence the minor distortions on the ropes etc.
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Built 1896, 406 tons, 51m (167") + 7m bowsprit, 22 sails (1000,5 m²), main mast draft 34m.
Originally a cargo ship, transporting cocoa and coffee from Brazil and French Guyana, and sugar from the West Indies, to Nantes in France.
Today she serves as a training ship. Miraculously she has survived nature catastrophes twice:
First she escaped the volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée-Hawaii in 1902, where the doomed harbor happened to be full, so she was compelled to anchor elsewhere.
Then again in Yokohama-Japan in 1923, where the harbor was destroyed by an earthquake, but Belem was lucky and somehow managed to escape.
Here seen sailing near la Pointe du Van, Baie des Trespassés Brittany, France, on July 27th 2010.
NOTE: Captured far out at sea w- a tele lens (FF equiv. 676mm), through haze and mirage. Hence the minor distortions on the ropes etc.
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