Morgenster (ship)

The Morgenster (Morning Star in Dutch) is a sail training ship based in the Netherlands. She was built, as a herring lugger under the name De Vrouw Maria, in 1919. In 1927, she was lengthened by 7 metres (23 ft) and converted into a motor fishing vessel. She was renamed Morgenster in 1959 and continued to be used as a fishing vessel until 1970. After a period of use for sport fishing and in the pirate radio business, she was acquired by her current owners for conversion back to a sailing vessel in 1983. She made her maiden voyage as a sail training ship in 2008, having been refitted as a brig.[1][2]

Morgenster alongside at Antwerp in 2010
History
Netherlands
Name: Morgenster
Launched: 1919
Identification: IMO number: 5241659
Status: In service
General characteristics
Length: 46.03 m (151 ft 0 in)[1]
Beam: 6 m (19 ft 8 in)[2]
Height: 29 m (95 ft 2 in)[2]
Draught: 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)[2]
Sail plan: Brig[1]
gollark: It *looks* kind of simple, but it has an octillion nonsensical weird inconsistencies.
gollark: "not too complex"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
gollark: We might end up seeing Chinese (don't think Chinese is an actual language - Mandarin or whatever) with English technical terms mixed in.
gollark: Yes, because they have been (are? not sure) lagging behind with modern technological things, and so need(ed?) to use English-programmed English-documented things.
gollark: Which means piles of technical docs are in English, *programs* are in English, people working on technological things are using English a lot...It probably helps a bit that English is easy to type and ASCII text can be handled by basically any system around.

References
  1. "Morgenster". Falmouth Tall Ships Regatta 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  2. "Morgenster - IMO 5241659". shipspotting.com. Retrieved 25 August 2016.


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