Ship - Sailing ship Schooner Le Regina Maris - French postcard 1975

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Le Regina Maris a quai (at the quayside) - shows the schooner in France
• Publisher:  Jack
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  80c red defin.
• Postmark(s):  Quiberon 15 July 1975 slogan postmark
• Sent to:  St Paul au Jarez
• Notes / condition: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Sailing ship Regina Maris is a three-masted topsail schooner, a 144-foot, wooden, completely fore-and-aft–rigged sailing ship with three masts. Regina Maris can reach a speed of up to 12 knots, especially on a half wind course or with a fresh back-stay breeze.

Its original home port was Amsterdam. Its classification was SI Z1234+, EU 98/18. Its length overall was 48 meters. Its beam was 6.90 meters, with a draught of 2.80 meters. Its masthead height was 29.00 meters. Its displacement was 280 tons with a gross tonnage of 153 tons. It was rigged as a three-masted topsail schooner with a sail area of 720 m² across 11 sails.

Its main engine was an eight-cylinder Caterpillar 3408 that produced 365 hp. Its generators were a Mitsubishi 15 kW and a Lister Petter at 20 kW. Its bunker capacity for gas and oil was 12,000 liters. Its bunker capacity for fresh water was 16,000 liters.

Its speed under sail was 12 knots and under engine was 9 knots. Its passenger capacity was up to 80 passengers for short-term voyages and 36 passengers for overnight voyages. It had 2x2 and 8x4-passenger cabins.

The Regina Maris was built to ply the Iceland-to-Baltic codfish trade. The original wooden hull was completed in 1908. It was the 100th hull produced by the shipyard of J. Ring Anderson in Svendborg, Denmark.^{[citation needed]}

Until 1963, the ship sailed under Norwegian colors and was called Regina, rigged as a three-masted topsail schooner. Following a severe fire in 1963, it was purchased by the Norwegian shipping magnates Siegfried and John Aage Wilson and converted to serve as the latter's private yacht. Rebuilt with a very tall three-masted barquentine rig for this purpose, the ship was renamed the Regina Maris (""Queen of the Sea""). Between 1963 and 1984, it was used in many television and movie productions, conducted two global circuits and underwent stints as a cruise ship, sail training facility, and marine mammal research vessel. The ship sank at its mooring in Glen Cove, N.Y. in August 1998, where the ships masts can still be seen.^{[citation needed]}

• Cargo Schooner 1908–1963 (Commercial Cargo years)
• Private Yacht 1963–1970 (Wilson years)
• Cruise Ship 1971–1973
• Sail Training and Movie Set 1973–1976 (Willoughby years)
• Research and Sail Training 1976–1984 (Ocean Research & Education Society)
• From Wharf-side Attraction to Ship's Demise 1985–1998
• Sail Training (Willoughby years,ORES years)
• Whale Research

type=printed postcards

theme=transportation

sub-theme=sea

county/ country=france

transportation type=sailing vessels

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=posted