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Friday, September 9, 2011

The Kruzenshtern


Gdynia/Poland/ -The Culture 2011 Tall Ships Regatta.
The Kruzenshtern is a Russian four masted barque and tall ship
that was built in 1926 in Wesermünde (Bremerhaven, Germany), under the name Padua.
She was given to the USSR in 1946 as war reparations and renamed after Adam Johann von Krusenstern.
The Kruzenshtern is one of the four remaining Flying P-Liners and still in use,
mainly for training purposes, with her home-port in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg).

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