Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Eugenios Eugenidis"
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Eugenios Eugenidis |
| Ex-names: | Sunbeam II, Sunbeam, Flying Clipper |
| Registered port: | Piräus |
| Nation: | GREECE |
| Type of rigging: | 3-MAST-TOPPSEGELSCHONER |
| Year built: | 1929 |
| Yard: | W. Denny & Brothers Ltd, Glasgow, GBR |
| Overall length: | 59.40 m |
| Breadth: | 9.20 m |
| Draught: | 5.50 m |
| Sail area: | 1540 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
| Power: | 400 PS |
| Engine: | Polar Atlas |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 15 Jan 2011
- built 1929 at the shipyard of W. Denny & Brothers Ltd. in Glasgow, GBR as 3-masted auxiliary schooner yacht, launched at Dumbarton, GBR, designed by J.R. Barnett of G.L.Watson & Co., delivered in September 1929 to Sir Walter Runciman, named the "Sunbeam II".
- 1939 taken over by the British Admiralty to become the mother ship for the Inshores Patrol Flotilla, based in Helford river Cornwall.
- 1945 owned by the Abraham Rydberg Foundation Stockholm, SWE as a sailtraining ship, from 1946, she was used for training voyages in the North and Baltic Seas as well as the West Indies.
- from 1954 she was used as a sailtraining ship by a Swedish Einar Hansen's Clipper Line of Malmö under the name "Flying Clipper".
- 1955-56 voyage to South America and The West Indies.
- took part in the first two Tall Ships Races from Tornbay to Lisbon and from Brest to Las Palmas in 1956.
- 1957-1963 voyages in the Baltic Sea and Medirerranean.
- 1962 recording of the German film "Flying Clipper - Traumreise unter weißen Segeln".
- 1965 purchased by the Greek Ministry of Marine, money was partially donated by the Eugenides Foundation, renamed "Eugenios Eugenides", to be used as a sailtraining ship for the merchant navy cadets.
- sailed regular training voyages until 1975, after this rarely used.
- 1995 given free of charge to the Greek Ministry of Culture, who delegated the responsability to the Maritime Museum of Greece, so that she could be restored in the future.
- 2002 given to be used by the Hellenic Navy General Staff.
- 2004 some repairs at Salamis Navy Base, plans to place her as museum ship in a Greece harbor.
- 2009 located in the Maritime Museum of Greece, Athens.
- named to honour Eugenios Eugenidis (1882-1954), Greek shipping magnate.
Contact:
Website (English, 15 Jan 2011):http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/evgenidhs_en.asp
HS Eugenios Eugenidis: history, specification and pictures
Literature for further reading:
We recommend the following references for your further research of the ship. The references marked with have been included in the generation of the ship profile on this page.
Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 1997 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(9. aktualisierte Auflage)
Page: 125 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
Beken of Cowes, Eric C. Abranson
"Segelschiffe der Welt"
Edition Maritim 1995 ISBN: 3-89225-314-5
(engl. Originalausgabe: "Sailing Ships of the World", 1992, Thomas Reed Publications Ltd.)
Page: 90 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
"Faszination Segelschiffe"
Ein interaktives Informationssystem auf CD-ROM 1998
(2. überarbeitete Auflage)
Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact
Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 2002 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(10. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage)
Page: 143 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data