Description: Druzhba's path started in 1987, when beautiful 360-foot and 2,300-ton tall ship was launched in 1987 at the shipyard of Gdansk, Poland. Natively, she was ordered and further operated by the Black Sea Shipping Co. (Черноморское морское пароходство) as a sail training ship, reserved for the Odessa Maritime Academy. The USSR had high hopes for tall ships and ordered six sisterships, which were launched at different shipyards in
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Druzhba's path started in 1987, when beautiful 360-foot and 2,300-ton tall ship was launched in 1987 at the shipyard of Gdansk, Poland. Natively, she was ordered and further operated by the Black Sea Shipping Co. (Черноморское морское пароходство) as a sail training ship, reserved for the Odessa Maritime Academy. The USSR had high hopes for tall ships and ordered six sisterships, which were launched at different shipyards in different years.
Druzhba is an all-steel and full-rigged ship with square sails on all three masts. There are not many vessels of its kind known in the world.
Druzhba is a real treasure and relic of our people. More than one generation of seafarers trained and started their professional way aboard Druzhba. The vessel made voyages across the Mediterranean Sea, along Northern Europe, entered the Indian Ocean, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the United States. None of those who came aboard the tall ship, remained indifferent to its sails and masts.