This photograph was taken by my daughter, S. Brown, from on board the Scillonian on leaving Penzance and off Newlyn/Mousehole. I believe it was a training ship for young would-be sailors and navigators but I don't know. It is certainly a fine vessel.
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Sedov
Four-masted steel barque.
Built 1921 by Krupp Germania Werft, Kiel. Yard Nr 372.
as Magdalene Vinnen
for Owners F.A Vinnen and Co, Bremen.
329 x 48.2 x 26.7 feet; 3,476 grt; 3.017 nrt.
Rigged double topgallant sails and royals sails.
1936 Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen; named Kommodore Johnsen; sail training ship.
May 1945 as part of war reparations, had been seized and delivered to the Soviet-Union.
Renamed Sedov. Sail training ship.
Laid up at Kronstadt 1976-1980.
Raymond Forward
