The Khersones or Chersones is a Crimean three-mast tall ship, a full-rigged ship. It was built in 1989 in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland, in a series of six sister ships (among which also the Mir), after the designs of Polish naval architect Zygmunt Choreń. The ship is named after the city of Chersonesus an ancient city and archaeological site near Sevastopol.
 Khersones at «Sochi Yacht Show»
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| Owner | Sevastopol branch of Federal State-Financed Educational Institution of Higher Education |
| Builder | Lenin Shipyard, Gdańsk |
| Launched | 1989 |
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| Status | Active |
| Notes | Home port, Sevastopol |
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| Class and type | Ukrainian Maritime Register Special Purpose Ship !A |
| Length | 108.6 m (356 ft) |
| Beam | 14 m (46 ft) |
| Draft | 6,8 m |
| Propulsion | sail, 2 1,000 hp. auxiliary engines |
| Sail plan | 3-masted ship rig; sail area 2,770 m2 (29,800 sq ft), 26 sails,[1] height 49.5 m (162 ft)[2] |
| Complement | 42, including 2 teachers; 72 cadets; 91 trainees/passengers, max. 250 for day sails |
| Notes | Speed under sail, 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph).; under power, 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
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She partakes in many windjammer regattas.[2] In 1997, it became the first Ukrainian ship to sail around Cape Horn by only using her sails.
From 1991 to 2006 Khersones was a training ship for the Admiral Ushakov Maritime State University in Kerch, Crimea. At the same time, it was rented to the tourism company Inmaris Maritime Service GmbH as a cruise ship. This agreement was terminated in 2006 as Inmaris accused the Ukrainian side of refusing to pay for repairs that Inmaris had ordered, and to avoid an arrest on the vessel, it was then moved permanently to the docks in the Port of Kerch.[3][4]
After the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014, the ship was seized by Russian authorities. A dispute over control of the ship began between the Federal Agency for Fishery of Russia and the Ministry of Transport, with the Ministry gaining the upper hand with its subsidiary FGUP Rosmorport.[5] In 2015 the ship traveled to the Sevastopol Shipyard for repairs, and later made its home port in the city due to the construction of the Crimean Bridge near Kerch. Khersones took part in "SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta – 2016".[6]
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- ^ a b "Die Khersones, Schiffsdaten". Inmaris Group, Windjammer Cruising Worldwide. 2006. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved Apr 8, 2010.
- ^ "СЕМЬ ФУТОВ ПОД КИЛЕМ :: Власть Денег". 2011-04-05. Archived from the original on 2011-04-05. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Судьба парусного фрегата "Херсонес"" [The fate of the sail frigate Khersones]. korabley.net (in Russian). 2009-05-11. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
- ^ "В Крыму идут бои за "Херсонес"". Газета.Ru (in Russian). 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
- ^ Парусник «Херсонес» примет участие в первой после капитального ремонта регате
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