The Swedish Royal Navy´s training vessel HMS Falken (33,4 x 7,2) today visited Helsingborg.The full rigged schooner is identical with its sister ship HMS Gladan.
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| This is the maritime artist James E. Mitchell´s "portrait" of HMS Falken´s twin, HMS Gladan in northern waters |
Here is a brief fact sheet:
- Length: 39.30 m
- Beam: 7.20 m
- Height: 31.40 m
- Draft: 4.20 m
- Hull: Steel
- Full rigged schooner
- Sail area: 680 m2
- Year of construction: 1946
- Homeport: Karlskrona
HMS Falken has, together with its sister ship, participated in many Tall Ships races and other nautical events. Both ships have been modernized several times in order to meet the needs of a high standard training ship.
From Helsingborg HMS Falken sails to its home port Karlskrona, from where it will continue to Stockholm. Later on this year Tönsberg (Norway), Dublin, Porto and Las Palmas are some of HMS Falken´s destinations.
Is this the ship that SS officer Ludwig Lienhardt acquired and spirited himself and other Nazi war criminals from Sweden on 30 December 1947 and sailed to Argentina where it served as a sort of floating office for the organization that helped other Nazis escape to Argentina?
ReplyDeleteNo, this is not that ship.
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