Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Black Swan"
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Black Swan |
| Ex-names: | Rana of Hadsund |
| Base port: | St. Johns |
| Type of rigging: | SCHONER |
| Year built: | 1919 |
| Yard: | Rasmus Møller, Fåborg, DK |
| Overall length: | 27.25 m |
| Length (hull): | 21.06 m |
| Breadth: | 5.55 m |
| Draught: | 3.10 m |
| Sail area: | 313 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Power: | 120 PS |
| Engine: | 2 Zyl. Hundested Diesel |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 23 Mar 2014
- "Rana" was built in 1919 at the shipyard R. Møller in Fåborg, DK as motor lighthouse vessel (No. IV).
- 1979 sold and util 1981 converted to a schooner, used for sailing voyages with guests and cocial-pedagogical work and purposes.
- long voyages since then, i.e. to the Faröer Islands (1981), North Atlantic (1981-82), Caribbean and North America (1984-85), Spain and Portugal (1985-86), the Amazonas Delta and Caribbean (1986-87), Caribbean (1987-88), circumnavigation of Scottland (1988), South Amerika 1989-91, circumnavigation if the world (1991-94), Caribbean (1995-96), northern Baltic Sea (1999), North Atlantic to Greenland (2000-03), Baltic Sea and Finland, Lithuania and circumnavigation of Denmark (2004).
- for sale in 2005.
- 2006 sold to Antigua, converted to a tourist attraction vessel, renamed the "Black Swan", based at Redcliffe Quay Pier in St. Johns, Antigua.
- 2012 with reduced rigg (1 mast only) in St. John's, Antigua; unknown owner situation.